When you finally have a daughter, and an excuse to buy pink you tend to incorporate it as often as possible. What could be more girlie or more pink than cotton candy?! The other female of the house is our 10 year old pomapoo Emmy. She is my first born, the baby I used to dress up before having human kids. She loves to be involved in our activities. Brings her back to the old days I guess. I just couldn’t pass up an opportunity for a pink pet. Her hair is snow white, and takes to color so nicely. So even though it is Halloween eve, I thought I’d quickly share this costume tutorial with all of you. It honestly was easy and quick. I had to laugh when several people asked if I bought it from Pottery Barn, and even others asked to buy off of me ha!! It did take a couple tries to make my little picky princess actually wear the costume without fussing, so I’ll walk you step by step through what I did.
I started by making my fluff pink. Shaved chalk is what makes it look most real. Spray painting the cotton would make it stiff. I did end up lightly spraying a tad bit in to test but liked the way the chalk looked way better. After I got it pretty pink I decided it might of been less messy to pink my fluff after glueing to the body suit. The chalk makes a huge mess! Do it outside if possible!
After glueing the bulk of it to the onesie I I added more pink and more fluff as needed. This is where it gets tricky, because the polyfil is hard to glue to itself. Just add as much glue as you can. Also keep chalking and shaking the costume out till you get the desired color. I used two different shades of pink chalk.
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