Disney ~ Princess Jasmine Costume

My Daughter Bella was invited to a Disney Princess Party during the Christmas School Holiday Break.  And the invitation read to come dressed as your favourite Princess.   Now my children LOVE to dress up but do you think that we had a Princess Costume in sight...Nope!!!!  Of course, then when Bella was asked which Princess she would like to be, she said "Princess Jasmine".   With time running out & no sign of a Princess Jasmine costume in sight & no time left to purchase on-line,  it was up to me to use my imagination to come up with one.  Firstly I scouted through etsy for a handmade PDF pattern that I could have emailed to me within 24 hours, all to no avail.  I proceed to google everything I could think of to come up with a free pattern or any ideas on how to go about making one (see I'm not really up with the characters : : / )...& yet still, all to no avail.  I did however find a couple of blogs showing off their own wonderful handmade Princess Jasmine costume. Many thanks to those pages, I did enjoy looking at others creations & becoming totally side tracked...LOL   Of course I suppose I could of always bought a generic pattern from the local fabric store but I wanted a little more than that. And secretly just between you & me...."I think I like a challenge".   So off to dream land it was.....& the drawing board.   Bella said she absolutely wanted her belly button showing otherwise the costume just wouldn't be right.  Well that actually made things a little easier for me.  What I came up with was in the end was extremely basic but I think totally effective.  And this is one you too can easily make your self.  So if enough interest is shown I will work on putting up a tutorial.  But remember not to hide in the background.  Comments & Questions are always more than welcome.  And don't forget I'd love to see you follow kiddilicious' blog & facebook page.  I like to know that I'm not just talking to myself...LOL

So anyways with out boring you all anymore...here's my version of the Princess Jasmine Costume:  I think it would also look super cool as a Genie's Costume too.

The finished costume with one happy & proud little girl

Here's a look at the back

A closer look at the top & headband

A closer look at the detail of the top & pants with the chiffon overlay skirt. 

So there it is.  I hope you like it as much as what we do.

Kiddilicious xx

Rompers In Season

This season ~ Summer 2011/2012 (southern hemisphere) our department stores & boutiques seem to be teaming to the bream with the gorgeous one piece romper suit.  And why not I say...they're fun, cool & comfortable. So how lucky was I when I stumbled across a fabulous etsy store that sold totally gorgeous handmade patterns. HEAVEN!!!  I love ALL of Alisha's patterns & you can find them here at pinkpoodlebows


Here is one of Pink Poodle Bows Patterns that I made.  Of course I had to add some extra touches to make it more my own & give it that vintage feel.  Here's my Daughter wearing the latest Romper:

This represent so much of Kiddilicious & I just love it.  You can see more of these that I have made on my kiddilicious facebook page.  So be sure to pop on over, I'd love to see you there.

Kiddilicious xx

Christmas Kiddilicious Style

Well it's another year over and again I can't believe how fast the time is flying by....slow day world before I want to get off....


Anyways I thought I'd like to share with you Christmas at our house & show you a bit of the kiddilicious style...So hold on and here we go.

So first of all we need our tree.  Nothing over the top here & I keep it the same every year.  No fancy keeping up with the trends or anything like that.  What we do have is my little family traditions instead, starting with each year my 3 children receive a new Christmas Ornament to place on the tree.  They'll get to take these with them when they start a family.  And then there is my crazy obsession  with the ever so ugly Nutcrackers.  I don't what it is about these guys but I love them to bits....maybe it's guilt as when I was a child I hated them & was so afraid that I didn't even like to look at them.  My daughter hasn't got the same fear....she can't seem to get enough of them & treats them like her babies....hahahaha

Above are a few more of my little treasures.  The gorgeous star wish was handmade for me by a beautiful friend of mine & I dearly treasure it.

And here is my dinning table all set for our delicious Champagne Breakfast. 

I'm still loving traditional colours too.

Christmas Eve

The Ginger Cupcake & Milk are excitably left for Santa

The stocking are ready to be filled

 Gee hope the reindeer's aren't going to fight over this one & only carrot

Christmas Morning

Hmmmm looks like the reindeer's enjoyed their lonely carrot...but gee they're messy

 Oh YES!!!  The Stockings are full

And the tree is surrounded in gifts.

This is the part I LOVE the most....the aftermath.  It's the best part of any Christmas.  Watching the kids rip open their gifts & throw it aside to move onto the next.  It only took 2 days to tidy up and it was all worth it because look at what we topped the day off with......

My delicious homemade pavlova 

I hope that you too were able to enjoy a beautiful Christmas with the people that make your life special.  And Thanks for sharing in mine.

Kiddilicious xx