I've Been Dreaming of a True Love's Kiss...

...and the prince I'm hoping comes with this! That's what brings ever-after-ings so happy! (*woodland creatures* SO HAPPY!)

So, I'm sure you all know about my little princess party business I'm trying to get going. (Shameless Plug) Well, I'm trying to find other princesses/characters to add besides just Anna. Ya, know, to give options. People like options. Well, as far as costumes go, in Utah, I had my Bo Peep dress. So I put that as an option, but lets be real, who wants Little Bo Peep to come to their party? Especially when they could have a Princess. But whatever. Option, yeah? (Also, I'm not blonde, so there's that.)

Well, I was thinking of other Princesses I could pull off. (That have easy costumes, too.) And I thought, hmmm, red-headed princesses... Ariel... Giselle... Oh! GISELLE! (We shall be married in the morning!) Well, while I love all of her dresses (especially her wedding dress) I remembered that she wore a pink dress while she's a cartoon. It was pretty and simple. And I had a pink dress in a similar-ish shape from my junior year winter formal (that I originally got at Forever 21. For like, $20. Bangnin' deal,right?). My brain immediately saw the alterations, and it looked perfect! Can you see it?

You might be thinking "Kai has officially lost it... How is a shiny, peach dress with a flower going to look like her dress at all?" And I'm thinking "Oh just you wait!"

First I took off the flower. I have a love/hate relationship with a seam ripper. If I have to seam rip something I just sewed because I sewed it horribly, I hate it. But I liked this part, because seam ripping wasn't undoing something, it was actually needed to create my vision.

Poof! Flower gone!
Now about those straps. The straps were added by my amazing mother so that the strapless dress would stay up at Winter Formal my junior year of high school. (I wore a shrug with it. Modest is hottest, yo.) They actually looked really good with the dress and helped it stay up really well, but were not very Giselle-y. So they were seam ripped also.

So now I have a pretty simple peachy-pink dress. With a yard of white tulle, a spool of the 2014 Color of the Year (Radiant Orchid) ribbon (its a bright purpley-pink color, I just wanted to sound fancy and such), and about 12" of light pink fluffy/flowery trim my junior year winter formal dress turns into a Giselle dress!

See the flowery headband and the fluffy sleeve-things, and the pink ribbon? I mean, come one! I just want to prance around singing about true love's kiss and such. (I am wearing a shirt that matches the ribbon underneath. Modesty, yeah?)

Yes, Giselle is not a popular princess (and technically is not a princess at all. Otherwise she would be my favorite princess. But she's not either of those things). But I think she's pretty cool. And who knows, maybe some awesome little girl just loves Enchanted! 

But I doubt it....

If you have any suggestions for other princesses I could pull off, let me know in those comments down there! (My ultimate goal is Rapunzel, but that would require a wig. If my little business actually gets some business, maybe I could do that, but it's a lot of work if it's not going anywhere.)

Ok. Peace out!

It's baaaaaaack....YouTube Tuesday!

Hello friends!! I'm blogging so much lately! (Well, so much for me.)
I'm really wanting to bring this little blog back into the fashion blogging side of things, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. :/ BUT that doesn't mean it won't be absolutely thrilling!

Well, here is the YouTube video for today!

Catch anyone familiar in this video?? ;)

This girl just went around campus asking people if she could film them for a video! Of course, I said HECK YEAH! And, did anyone notice that not only am I in the video twice, I'm also the only Frozen character? I mean, she probably could have had an entire video of all the Frozen characters on campus and she only chose me! :) (Also, there were three Rapunzels. THREE! HA!) 

It's a super fun video! I loved seeing all the costumes on Halloween, and now I can relive that anytime I want! YAY!

And here's another shameless plug for my new Princess Party website! I am so excited to see if anything happens with it! I'm also thinking of adding a couple of characters... (One costume I already have, one I can make by altering a dress I already have.) Neither are super well known characters, but both are characters I love! I'm also going to be updating the website. Adding pages and what not. So definitely check it out! 

Also, for friends in Arizona, I'm thinking of doing a little princess party to get some pictures for my blog, Thanksgiving weekend! I would love for your daughters or sisters or nieces or cousins to come and for you to give me feed back (and possibly write a short review for my blog?)! I might also do a Disneyland style meet and greet with Anna at a park that weekend also, to give me practice staying in character, and also to get other pictures for my website. (I love how I'm calling the lame little blog I have set up a website. Haha!) Just keep that in mind if your kids love Frozen!

Thanks for reading! (Oh and if you haven't already, click that little button on the side that says "Follow"! I would love more followers on my blog!)

Halloween Dinner!

So, as I am sitting in McDonald's (oddly, where I like to go to do my homework. All the diet Dr Pepper I can drink, and none of the distractions of friends. But sometimes the internet itself proves to be a distraction, but that would be the case wherever I would go to do my homework,) I decided I wasn't quite ready to start doing my homework. (Don't worry, I'll do it, Mom. I have at least two assignments I have to do by Monday and I'm not leaving until I do them.) So I decided to tell you about the Halloween dinner I made for my apartment complex's dinner group. (Seriously, the most genius idea ever. Once every three weeks, I make a big meal for 12 people. But all the other days, I get fed! It's excellent!) My day was on October 30, the day before Halloween. And my original plan was to make chicken Tikka Masala (one of my very favorite foods), but I couldn't pass on the opportunity to make a Halloween themed dinner! Here was the menu:

-Mummy Heads
-Cocktail Wormies
-Pumpkinlings with Goblion Gook
-Bloody Shirleys

Sounds positively horrifying, yes? ;) Here are the recipes for each thing.

Mummy Heads:
Ingredients:
-English Muffins
-Pizza sauce (or pasta sauce)
-String Cheese
-Olives

Directions:
1) Lay out English muffin halves on a baking sheet and preheat oven to 350
2) Cover each half with a generous amount of sauce
3) Tear the string cheese into strips an lay across the English muffins
4) Cut olives in half and put on top of the cheese for eyes
5)Back for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.
6) Eat the mummy heads!

Cocktail Wormies:
Ingredients: (If you have a cocktail weenie sauce that you like, use that.)
-1 Bottle of honey BBQ sauce
-1/2 cup (heaping) grape jelly
-1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
-3 Tbsp Frank's Red Hot sauce (or more to taste)
-hot dogs

Directions:
1) Mix all ingredients (Minus hot dogs) together in a crock pot
2) Slice the hot dogs lengthwise into "worms"
3) Stir the hot dog "worms" into the sauce and turn on the crock pot to low
4) Cook on low for at least 4 hours.

Pumpkinlings with Goblin Gook:
Ingredients:
-Baby Carrots
-Bell Pepper (You're favorite color, with a stem)
-Olives (Leftover from pizzas)
-Sour cream
-Ranch Mix
-(Optional) green food coloring

Directions:
1)Arrange carrots on a plate
2) Put the stem of the pepper on top of the carrots and arrange pepper slices around the edge of plate
3) Arrange olives into a face on the carrots
4) Mix sour cream and ranch mix together (you can add food coloring to dye it green.

Bloody Shirleys
Ingredients:
-Sprite
-Grenadine syrup
-Ice

Directions:
In a clear cup, pour in approximately a tablespoon of grenadine syrup. Add ice and fill up the cup with sprite.















That was my delicious Halloween meal! Super easy and fun! I hope that this inspires you to make your own Halloween meal next Halloween!


(Oh, and here is a shameless plug for my Princess Parties! Please share it with anyone who might be interested in having a Princess come to their kid's party or other event!)

This is Halloween!

Hello loverly readers of my blog! Long time no see, yeah? I am a busy girl. Mostly, I am a lazy girl. BUT I have been working so hard on a project that I got to debut in its entirety this week! I was working so hard on my Halloween costume! I worked so hard on it to make it the best that I possibly could, because I have bigger ideas than just Halloween for this costume! Here are some pics of the process of making it, along with some pictures of it completed! Halloween on BYU campus is so much fun! It is seriously like walking around Disneyland (except with some non-Disney characters thrown in)! I had so much fun taking pictures with so many other wonderful costumes! I know there will be a lot of pictures, but please look through them! It is so worth it to see everyone! :)

I'm sure you know what it is at this point... But here's the final look!

Princess Anna!

And here are pictures from campus!

Oh, I just love Halloween!! It is so much fun to dress up! I went to McDonald's in my costume (because I might have a slight addiction to Spicy Chicken Sandwiches and Diet Dr. Pepper...) and all of the kids there got so excited! And their parents took pictures and it was pretty much awesome. :)

To learn about my big idea for my costume Click Here!