- Texas mother of three Chesney Terry is a dedicated DIYer, and last year she dressed her daughter up as a s’more — and the “last minute” costume went viral on TikTok
- Terry hand painted the cardboard with realistic looking chocolate squares and the whole project took about two hours which was perfect as it needed to be finished for the event the next day
- “I was a little humbled, honestly, and taken aback,” Terry, 32, tells PEOPLE
People really want to s’more this mom’s halloween costumes!
Chesney Terry, an East Texas mother of three, tells PEOPLE she’s ready to treat her followers to another sweet dose of DIY after the overwhelming response she got on TikTok for a costume she made last year for her daughter Noah Mae, now 3. .
“I was kind of humbled, honestly, and taken aback,” Terry, 32, tells PEOPLE. “I thought it was cute, I was proud of it.”
But nothing prepared Terry for the feedback she received from her followers, who praised her creativity — and wanted the recipe. so to speak.
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“I put it up last year after I did that, and that was before I did a lot of TikTok,” Terry says. “I had 30,000 views and I was thrilled and shocked and everything.”
The sweet video now has more than 200,000 views.
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The idea to dress her then-two-year-old daughter as a campfire prop began when the Lindale resident visited her local thrift store “at the last minute” and couldn’t find any ready-made costumes she liked.
At home on Pinterest, she came across the idea to make a s’more costume. Fortunately, she didn’t have to look far for most of her materials.
“I realized that I needed a tuta, so I went to the store. But apart from that, I already had everything at home,” she says.
Terry hand painted the cardboard with realistic looking chocolate squares and the whole project took about two hours which was perfect as it needed to be finished for the event the next day.
Chesney Terry
“I feel like I’ve always been a little bit creative my whole life, but I don’t feel like a professional by any means,” the humble DIYer tells PEOPLE. “I’m just faking it until I make it. Most of the time people ask me how I do it and I say, ‘I really don’t know.’ I just start doing it, and it kind of comes.”
And part of the key is trusting the process.
“The more you do it, you just have to have a little confidence,” she adds. “Most of the time when I start doing something, it looks kind of bad at first, and then I’m like, ‘Oh, no.’ But then I just keep going, and going, and going, and then I’m like, ‘Oh, well, this actually turned out well.’ ”
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Last year’s finished costume included a piece of cardboard that was attached around Noah Mae’s waist and a smaller piece attached to her headband. Sandwiched in between, Terry’s daughter wore a white tutu and white top for a marshmallow effect.
And Terry’s perfect performance had her followers drooling.
“Tell us how to do this. Please!” one commenter wrote alongside a video of Noah Mae posing in the precious costume.
Another fan praised the mom’s efforts: “I’m yelling to my family in the other room describing this as I oooo and ahhhh. So f— sweet!!!”
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This Halloween, Terry will keep the dessert theme going by dressing her daughter in a piece of cotton candy.
Unfortunately, Terry says her older children — a 13-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son — don’t share their younger sibling’s love of being dressed as candy.
“As your kids grow up, they don’t really want it [dress up]”, she says. “So I’m just going to enjoy this while I can.”
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