Christmas Tree Geekery

My Christmas tree is up!

Over the years I have collected a lot of Star Wars ornaments (mostly from Hallmark) that I received as gifts. When shopping for Christmas gifts for a nerd it's hard to go wrong with Star Wars ornaments!

I also have a lot of Disney ornaments. When I was a kid my sister and I had a mini Christmas tree that we filled with only Disney ornaments so I have a whole shoebox full of them. My hubby likes to go to Disneyland a lot so I try to get a different ornament for each trip.

I love my Arena Battle Padme ornament because that was my first Star Wars costume I made!

The Looney Tunes ornament actually has working gears with a handle you turn to raise and lower Wile E. Coyote. Cool!

Captain Kirk is my only Star Trek ornament but he looks awesome commanding from his chair near the top of the tree.

And that  little fox is just cute, isn't it?

Party Hats

My aunt had a great idea for something to do on New Year's Eve while we were waiting for the clock to strike midnight. She brought out scissors, glue, cardboard and leftover Christmas wrapping paper, and we all went to town making...

PARTY HATS!

OK yeah I went a little overboard and ended up making a boater hat and a mini top hat.

My sister modeled my hat for me. She is actually a professional actress, model and photographer in NY.

Tiny top hat!

Chewbacca approves.

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 #5 - Lock, Shock, and Barrel

Another Halloween Costume.
I wanted to do something from one of my favorite movies, Nightmare Before Christmas.  But I dont like being the regular repeat so I like picking characters that are not the main characters yet are still reconizable.
So I decided to do Lock, Shock, and Barrel. 

Challenges

• Finding a third friend to join us
• The characters look to easy to do, how to make it more impressive. 
• That BathTub is awesome, too bad we can't make it, wait wait wait, maybe we can.

How to Make the Bath Tub

1. Find the largest storage bin you can find with the box like shape of a tub
2. Spray Paint it White
3. Sparsly Spray Paint it Black to make it look dirty
4. Saw out corners from the buttom for your legs
5. Glue on a Faucet (purchased from your neighbour hood Hardware store
6. Glue on a Crank on the back, actually We drilled a hole and put it in like a PinWheel Toy

Having a Teddy Bear as our third character was amazing for two reasons
Not having to cram a third person in AND Adding that awesome cutiness touch

Picture #2 & #3 that I found on the internet of us.

I'm usually really picky about accuracy and asthetics when it comes to cosplay, but this one was so conceptually halarious that it just made me freaking giddy.

  

-SmallRiniLady
Hope you enjoyed our Week of Cosplay! :)
Happy Halloween Everyone