A Journey of Creativity: Adorable Christmas Outfits...

My mom and I made some outfits for Lily, my nephew Zaryk & my niece Leighton for Christmas pictures. It's the one time of year when we get professional pics of all 3 kids, so we thought we'd go for something cute and creative this year.

They each wore a long sleeved white t-shirt, which had hand made designs on them. The girls had Christmas ornaments with a bow, while Z had a candy-cane striped tie. The girls also wore hand made tulle skirts in green & red, along with white tights & sparkly shoes. They are so stinking cute it isn't funny!

For the shirts, we bought cute colored fabric (1/4 yard each), using the same fabric for both Lily & Leighton but alternating the ornaments for a small difference. My mom traced the bottom of a small drinking glass for consistent circles and cut out the ornaments & the tie after fixing the fabric to iron on paper. She then ironed them on the shirts and used fun ribbon as string. She also made a bow with a button to embellish the girls shirts.

For Z, she measured out the length on Lily and drew a decal for the fabric to be cut from. She cut the top "knot" separately, so that we could turn the fabric and have it contrast with the length of the tie. His was definitely the easiest to make.

For the skirts, I used red ribbon and two different colors of tulle. I measured around Lily to get a general idea of how big the skirt should be. I then cut up 5 yards of red & 5 yards of green tulle in 2.5 inch wide strips. I folded a strip in half, laid it under the ribbon and pulled the ends through the loop at the opposite end.

By the way, using shiny glitter tulle will leave everything covered in glitter. We're still cleaning up glitter after almost 2 weeks!

I pulled tight and there you have it! I used Lily as my model throughout, just making sure the skirts would fit. This is a great way to make the skirt-the ribbon simply ties at the back when you've completed it, so you can tie it as tight or as loose as needed. This was helpful, considering Lily is bigger than Leighton (who wasn't around to be "fitted"), so I had to tie one a little tighter than the other.