Halloween Special Costume Galore!

Below are some of the costumes of the people I hung out with this Halloween. I also mention some of the various levels of involvement when it came to the costume.

" This is my body, This is my blood, Happy are they who come to my supper."
A hundred percent involvement with this costume. I mean the guy soldering iron to forge nails to a wires for his head piece!

"Hello little people. What an absolutely splendid day."
One can never go wrong with Miss Piggy, one prom dress, a blonde wig, pig nose and ears and your done.

"Autobots, transform and roll out!"
However when short on time, there are fantastic costumes one can buy online or at your local costume shop.

Halloween Special Part 2

Today's special is the completed version of my project. Finally after two months of hard work and various trips to Micheals, and the local costume shop I had a costume that I was proud to parade at a Halloween Bash this weekend. For those of you curious I made most if not all the costume, from the spider infested flower bouquet to the wig and veil. The wig was the most cumbersome but the wedding dress had it's fair share of woes and victories.


I originally purchased the hand made wedding dress at value village for a total of $20 (not surprisingly this was the cheapest used wedding dress available.) After soaking dress for a good hour in blue die, I began to splatter the bottom with diluted black ink before taking an exacto knife to the hem of dress to give it that "torn I've been dead and buried for a century look." After that it was a matter of sewing on straps. Overall wrecking the wedding dress was the best part of the project.

Every bride needs a pair of good shoes and a lovely flower bouquet

Took this by accident and found it to be creepy so naturally I' thought to share it.

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The fruits of my labor. The entire thing took two hours to put together, (most of it was painting make up on my face, back and arms). It took about the same amount of time to get off. I'm never underestimating cream foundation ever again.

Besties hanging out

Halloween Special- Cupcakes

Hosting a Halloween Party this year? Why not try a hand at spookifying your baked goods and food selections.

The photos below are of some red velvet dirt n'worm cupcakes that I make for a few of my co-workers. For the full recipe check out the following link on the food network website.
WARNING: These cupcakes have a bit of a kick to them.

Baking supplies including Martha Stewart's Halloween cupcake holder.

Close up of the "Watch Out" cupcake holder

After a few failed attempts at shaping the icing into brains I went with gummie worms and dirt (oreo crumbs).

Due to my icing having clumps I was unsuccessful at shaping the icing into brains, so I fell back to making worms and dirt (oreo crumbs) as the toping. However if you would like to give a go at making brain cupcakes you can check out this recipe or this video.

For more Halloween gourmet ideas visit the foodnetwork.

Cheers!

Halloween Special Part 1

Halloween, one of the oldest holidays second to Christmas that dates back two thousand years to a Celtic festival known as Samhains. The Celts that occupied what is now Northern France and the United Kingdom held the belief that the evening prior to their new year (November 1) the boundary between the land of the dead and the living would blur. The spirits of the dead would return to the world of the living causing mischief and mayhem to crops and the like. However it was believed that the presence of these spirits would grant Celtic priest's visions of the future. To celebrate these predictions the people would come together for a bonfire where they would sacrifice animals and burn crops, while wearing animal heads and skins.

While the vast majority of us are less likely to go parading around in animal heads, the opportunity of dressing up as something or somebody else with a bunch of other people is just too good to pass up. And if you're someone like me, the process of creating the costume is just as fun as dressing up.

This year I decided to go as the corpses bride. A decision that was solely based on saving money since I already had the wedding dress from a previous costume. In summary I never did save as much money as I had hoped. If anything what I saved in the costume I ended up spending in make up and accessories. No regrets though since the result looks amazing!  See below.

The pile of make up and supplies including rubbing alcohol, rotting flesh prosthetics, various blue, grey, black eye shadows and black eyeliner, white cream and a pair wicked eyelashes.

A wig that I constructed by hand. It took and obscene amount of time, effort and yarn to make this nightmare of a wig. Looking back I should have forked over the $25 for the corpses' bride wig than go through the misery of wasting so much time on braiding this stupid thing.

Was strongly debating whether or not the fact eye lashes coupled with the flesh wound was too much. In the end I thought, go big or go home.

The completed picture after an hour of applying make up. There are a few kinks I need to work out but I'm satisfied with how it turned out.

My version of the corpses bride has a bit more gore than Tim Burtons'. If you're more interested in the elegant version there is a good video on youtube made by audfaced. However if it's all blood and guts that appeases your appetite be sure to check out the following link, which provides a list of supplies and videos needed for applying zombie make up.

That's it for now.

P.S- Full costume will be featured on Halloween.

And More Jewelery

Hi Everyone,

It's been very hectic this past few months. Between my enrollment in school and my full time job, I haven't been able to dabble in any of my hobbies and home projects.
Yes, that is my excuse for the delayed update on my blog.
Fortunately I come bringing updates and "completed" projects to show.

Note- When I say completed, I mean I've gotten tired of working on said project.

For this week I'll be presenting a few jewelery piece that I will be selling come spring, or whenever I have some free time.

As for the rest of the month, I will be sharing pieces all related to one of the best holidays of the year, Halloween! So stay tuned!

 African Sunset Multi-chain Necklace

A piece that I created using a few orange beads that I had kicking around.

 Golden Sun Necklace

A piece made from yellow glass beads and basic clay beads.

 Sea Coral Crochet Necklace

A crocheted necklace that made use of all my mismatch of blue and green glass beads.