It's A Mom Thing

DD1 has been taking drama once a week since August, and they are getting ready for their Big Show. They are doing "The Ants and the Grasshopper," and DD1 is the scarecrow narrator. Which is good, because she gets to have a lot of lines, but the costume for the ants?
a black leotard.
grasshopper?
a green leotard.
Scarecrow?
not so much.
For the scarecrow, I went to the 2ndhand store, bought a pair of XS junior overalls (only ones I could find), and a boys' plaid shirt, went to Michael's and bought raffia, cut off the pants legs to fit her, sleeves ditto, trimmed the raffia, put it on a strip of packing tape, sewed the tape to the inside of the pants hem, same with the cuffs, and sewed the cuffs back onto the sleeves, cut some squares of fabric, and sewed raffia on to them, and then sewed them onto the overalls.
I sat and watched a rehearsal yesterday for the first time. I hadn't b4 because of DD2, and because I knew I would want to take over. And the show? Probably a 6 to 10 minute show. Took me at least three times that long to get the costume ready.
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