Christmas Tree Angel

I decided to make a new topper for our new 9-foot Christmas tree! I wanted to make either an angel or a star, and since a star needs to light up and that's really complicated I decided to make an angel out of random stuff in my craft room.

First I took a long strand of raffia string (I decided this looks like rustic angel hair) and folded it back and forth, then stuffed it through a large wooden bead (which sort of looks like an angel's head, if you have an imagination like mine). Then I twisted a piece of gold rope against itself (this is the crown or halo), cut it and hot-glued it on top and trimmed the raffia to look like hair.

For the body I made a cone out of white craft form. For wings I used a pretty piece of ribbon which I threaded through a hole in the back. I then bordered the hole with pieces of the same gold I used for the halo-crown to hide the ugly hole.

Next I got out a bunch of coordinating white and gold trim and lace and decided to figure out how to decorate the body to make a dress. I made a bit of a mess.

I started glueing pieces of lace over the white foam, starting with the bottom piece so the upper pieces would overlap like layers of a skirt. A strand of white "pearls" became a necklace for the angel.

Here is the finished angel, as an ornament. I need a ladder to get her up on top of my tree!

Cosplay Week #2 - Nobel Scarlet from Ah My Goddess

I made this for my friend for Anime Evolution. This is the character we were insired after, Nobel Scarlet from Ah My Goddess. She is the angel for the Goddess Skuld.



My friend told me that she felt comfortable walking around in a bra. So I took advantage of her. WO HA HA HA

This outfit comes in 4 pieces.

a wig, would you believe me if i told you this was the easy part of the outfit?

wings, funny story is that she was responible for bringing wings, but she left them at home. So we made one quickly wich some poster paper in the shape of wings, and cut up fabric pieces as feathers. Than we drapped/glued them onto the wings so they hung and flittered in the wind.

clothing, so as you can see the character's clothing is rather odd shaped and lacking. I used a large piece of craft foam, cut out the shape, and used an iron to heat up and mold the curls as it cooled.

wind tunnel, probebly got about 20 yards of ripped strips of fabric which I sewed a loop hope into through the 20 yards and stringed a wire throughout the whole thing. Then using safety pins we pinned it all into a giant hurrican tunnel
Here she's sitting on a ledge and tucked her toes into the tunnel so it looks like she's floating.  This sucked for the cosplay because after some movement she the safety pins would pop open and start scratching her legs.  All for the love of cosplay

Closer look at the wings

-SmallRiniLady