Dressing-up party

Last week, Betty (4), Dolly (1) and I held a dressing-up party - for no reason other than we thought it would be fun, after a pretty gruelling January.  The idea of a party came about because I have recently put together a dressing up box for my girls. I have been collecting fun and quirky items of clothing from charity shops, and cutting up old clothes of mine and sewing sequins and feathers onto them.  In addition to this ELC sent me some fabulous costumes from their range, from fairies, to princessess, to vets, to ballerinas.  So there the box proudly sat, awaiting our little guests...

A dressing up party is always going to be a winner with kids, well, most kids anyway.  We had vets performing operations on toy dogs to remove their nits, we had a garden fairy, Snow White and a ballerina having a tea party, a witch and a nurse tearing around on a hobby horse, and two boys one dressed as a fairy and one as a princess.  It was a lot of fun, if very chaotic, and there were hardly any fights! 

Needless to say, the ELC costumes were the most popular with the kids, as they looked great, fitted properly, and were the biz, as opposed to some of the costumes I had fashioned together myself.  There was an ELC ball gown which I would have absolutely loved when I was a little girl - magical.

ELC offer a huge choice of different costumes for every occasion, and the prices range from £12 to £22.