a cowboy and indian thanksgiving

My group of girl friends that get together weekly decided that we needed to have a friends' Thanksgiving this year.  Well somehow that idea turned into a Cowboys and Indian party.  (I believe it was a Pilgrim and Indian party first, but I don't think anyone was too excited about dressing like Pilgrims, so cowboys and Indians it was). 

I was a little sad the three of us didn't dress up for Halloween this year, but thankfully this made up for it.  I was quite lucky to find this gem of a top at the thrift store for $4.  My dad is an actual cowboy so he let Chris borrow his hat and chaps.   I made Addilyn's costume and am really quite proud of how it turned out.  I was a little afraid it would be one of those ideas that sounds easy and cute in my mind but doesn't turn out that way.  All I did was buy some fabric and fringe.   I took one of her little dresses and used it as a pattern to just cut around it.  I sewed the fringe on the neckline, then turned the pieces right side in and sewed the shoulders and the sides.  That's it!

For both of our headbands I found this wired ribbon and I sewed a little big of elastic in the back of each of ours and glued the feathers on the inside.  For Addilyn's I folded the ribbon in half so it wasn't as big. 

My sister is law Lauren found these adorable moccassins at a garage sale before Addilyn was born and they worked perfect!  As did my fringe boots.  Altogether I only spent $15 on everything! 

Our friends even had a little photo "green screen" which made for some fun photoshopped pictures.

Could our little Indian be any cuter?  I think we'll keep her.