Cinderella is Alive and Well!

I have been working mega hours on the 5th grade play. We are doing a funny version of Cinderella. It took me 2 weeks to get all the costume sheets finished...68 of them!!! PLUS running 30 Cd's for certain of the characters to practice with. But everything got out to the kids on Thursday. Whew! We start after school rehearsals week after next for 2 weeks. MEANWHILE, we've been working on the 2/3 grade musical to be performed in November..."Dinomotion". I'm telling you, there is nothing funnier than seeing kids in dinosaur costumes try to square dance! It ought to be a riot! My kindergartners and 1st graders will be doing scenes from The Nutcracker. They are really excited...as am I! So this weekend I finished working on Cinderella's ball dress. I found this really neat white dress at the thrift that would be a PERFECT Cinderella dress. It was really filthy and yellowed. So I brought it home and washed it up on the delicate cycle (you know you can wash ANYTHING in the washer...dry cleaners are really unnecessary!) It came out beautiful!!! Isn't it gorgeous? Can you believe it was only $10?!!!

I decided that it needed to look a little more period...so on with the drippy lace sleeves...

Add some velcro up the back for quick changes...

And lastly, a poofy overskirt...Voila! A Cinderella dress that any young girl would love to wear!

Before:

and After!