Halloween Haunt - Pumpkin King creeper

This is a creeper that we made yesterday in about an hour (designing it and placement of leaves with safety pins). We still have to sew down the leaves. It's pretty cool and really scary in the dark. I'll edit this post and pic in a few days, okay?

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Gothic Lolita Mini Top Hat

I made this top hat for my costume crafts class in the spring semester. Mini top hats like these are very popular in the Japanese fashion style called Gothic Lolita. Originally, it was supposed to be a black hat with a white ribbon but I fell in love with this fabric and felt that white wouldn't complement it as much as the Hello Kitty pink does.

It's a buckram top hat covered with a diamond-embroidered, navy polyester fabric and a sheer Hello Kitty pink ribbon with white polka dots. To get the ribbon to be solid on the band, I laid a white satin ribbon under it. I am very pleased how it turned out. It's really cute!

These pictures make me realize how much I need a new Styrofoam head. :(

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I've been meaning to work on finishing altering a T-shirt but work has me so drained that I don't want to use a sewing machine on my days off. Oh, well...

Work's going well. We're getting ready for Halloween Haunt. Pretty soon, we should start building the costumes.

I can't believe that college starts in a few weeks. My so called summer went by so fast.

Invader Zim Hat - Proper Pictures

So, I finally charged my camera battery and took the proper pictures of my Invader Zim hat. Enjoy!


PS Seem to be having problems with the slideshow in the sidebar. I'll keep working on it.

Joker

This was a really cool Joker costume that I saw at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight. His ability to stay in character was also amazing.

P.S. Finally got the Mobile Blogging to work. Now, I can update on the fly! \ (^o^) /

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I have been messing with the layout of the site lately, so I apologize if some pictures have been absent. I've hopefully fixed it. Enjoy.

Invader Zim Hat

Later this month at Kings Dominion is Nickmas (Nickelodeon Christmas in July). For Nickmas, people dress up as old Nick characters. I wanted to be Zim from Invader Zim but I can't afford to make the complete costume. I found this really cool Heartless hat made by Saeru (which I will eventually buy) and thought that it's close enough to what Zim looks like, so I made a pattern based on the pic, mocked it up, and altered the pattern as needed. I was so excited because I almost designed (kind of), patterned, mocked, and made it all in one day but I ended up having one antenna unattached. :(

Changes for next time: the placement of the eyes should be 1" closer and sew the antennae into the seam before stuffing as opposed to sewing them on separately by hand (this will make them more secure). Other than that, pretty good for a prototype hat.

Here are some more pics. I apologize that these were taken with my cell because my camera battery needed to be charged. Better pics later on.