Diary Adventures of LagosMums: DALM |Â Wearing Many HatsÂ
We all know that Mums wear many hats but LagosMums have to wear additional hats of a detective, a designer, an innovator, creative director  etc.
The kids are getting ready for book character day at school where they have to go dressed as their favourite characters from any book of their choice. The easy way out of course is for them to go dressed in the costumes we already have at home – spiderman, tinkerbell etc. This does not take much creativity and after awhile though the kids (or at least I do) get bored of wearing the same costumes and mixing costume dress up with creatively looking like a book character.
The additional challenge is that in Lagos its not like we have the luxury of going to the mall or party store to pick out a book character costume or order online with overnight delivery (because I only remember these things a few days to the time).
Anyways with the LagosMums hat on I proceed to solve this matter by –
- Making appointment with Tailor to come by for measurements to re-create the characters of choice
- Asking kids about their general preferred characters with specific rules – Â they must be able to tell me the story about said character, choice is based on the ease of attempt to recreate the outfit. So though we are being creative we are not going to try and re-create Thomas the Engine!
- Googling to find images of the character costumes, while steering them away from complex option see point above.
- Once we selected the preferred costume, printed it out ready as sample for the tailor to recreate.
- Tailor shows up and we describe as best as possible the costume and take the necessary measurements  (we are praying hard that there is no let down on this)
- Negotiate with tailor who wants to charge for “Express” I succeed in knocking off a little bit just to feel I negotiated.
- Use BB and twitter (who said social media is not a necessity) to look for source of a wig that goes with the costume…and luckily a mum did have this wig! Thank you 🙂
We are all ready for Book Character day now.
Will share the pictures of the costumes here…join us in prayer that the tailor gets it on the first try and we hope that we don’t have to revert to good ol’ superman and tinker bell again.
