Tarcil with Flowers

Tarcil likes my pretty flowers and was hiding in them.  :)

If you couldn't tell, these flowers are fake.  I generally don't have flowers in my house due to the fact that I forget to water them and the cat tries to eat them, but these have worked out perfectly for me!  I love my flowers!  :)

Tarcil eating a treat

Tarcil got a bag of treats from a fan of his, and today, he tried them for the first time.  He really enjoyed them!!

He was afraid I was going to take it away from him so he started breaking off chunks and stuffing them in his cheeks instead of actually eating them.  He is so silly.  :)

Tarcil (as the Flash) Cleaning His Face

I took this clip during a break between my photo shoots with Tarcil in his Halloween costumes.  He was pulling at the ribbon around his neck because it was in his way when he wanted to clean his face.  It was so cute!  I am so glad I have a recording of this!!  :)

Gondor

Day 12

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This is the final day of Tarcil's costumes.  Once again, I wanted to represent Lord of the Rings, and I thought that this was a good way to do that.  I also wanted to specifically represent Gondor.  For those of you who have read everything up to this point, you already know the connection.  And for those who missed my post from when I named Tarcil, I will give you a quick summary.  Tarcil was a descendant of Isildur and the king of Arnor.  It means "High Man" and was used as a nickname to Aragorn.  :)

Due to the amount of details in this costume, I painted the design on the felt.  I kept putting it off because I didn't think I could do it well, but I was able to find an unbelievably tiny brush which made this possible.

If you are wondering what is in the background of this picture, it is my three LOTR books with a set of Nazgul in front of them.  The Nazgul came from a board game that my husband recently bought.  We still haven't had a chance to play it so I can't give a review of it yet.  :)

I seriously can't get enough of that cute face and little nose!  I hope you have enjoyed looking through the costumes I made for Tarcil!  And I hope you have a safe and fun Halloween!  :)

Rohan

Day 11

This is my second to last costume in this project and I couldn't help but throw in at least one Lord of the Rings reference.  :)  I decided that I wanted to make one that resembled the flag and the shield of Rohan.  Therefore, this costume was much different than the others because of the amount of details that needed to be in it.  I knew that cutting everything out of the felt would not work.  I spent some time thinking about how to make this work when I finally thought of using paint.  I am not much of a painter so I wasn't sure if I could make this look good enough to be recognizable.  I think it turned out really well, but I guess you all would have to be the judges of that.  :)

Tomorrow is Halloween!  Make sure you check out Tarcil's final costume!!

Link

Day 10

I think my costumes just got better and much cuter!  During the first few pictures I took, I was able to get Tarcil to wear his hat.  Unfortunately, it fell off a couple times, and then after that I couldn't get him to keep it on.  But I didn't mind because I thought it was cute how messy his hair was from wearing a hat.  :)

If you look closely at that last picture, you will see that Tarcil has his mouth open!  He was licking his face when I was taking these pictures.  What a cutie!!  :)

Luigi

Day 9

This was a really fun photo shoot!  I really enjoyed making the costume and the tunnel.  I had originally thought of doing Mario, but I was running out of red so I decided to go green instead.  :)  

I thought it was cute when Tarcil stopped exploring to clean his little face!  :)