The fairy has some accessories with him. A sword a shield and a jar of coins and jewels. The jar was purchased at hobby lobby as was the weapons. But the weapons originally were necklace charms that we modified for our own ideas. The jar of gems and coins was made out of and old bracelet that we took the gems out of and added to the jar. The coins in the jar are actually made out of a dime and a penny that we took a hole punch too to make coins the correct size for a fairy. Took many hours to make those coins.
The armor was hand made mostly by me and my daughter. The shoulder armor pieces are two pennies that I hammered into the desired shape on a small metal rod that I used like an anvil. When I had them to the desired shape I used the same hole punch that i used to make the coins to make the holes to attach it to the chainmaile. Then added those four coins to the jar of coins too.
The knights hair is a small piece of rabbit fur left over from the costume of Puck from A Mid Summer Nights Dream.
The little bits of fabric used on this Fairy is also scraps from other characters from mid summer night dream. The cape is from mustard seed and the shinny loin cloth is from moth. There is a little strip of leather she placed over the loin cloth. She also made a little black bag that was to carry little fairy items what ever they might be. There is little pieces of twine wrapped around his legs and one has a bone button on one leg as if the fairy had found it and liked it so much added it to his clothing. The wings are made out of a butterfly that is supposed to be used as a hair clip. My daughter dismantled it ( removing the clip, antenna, and butterfly body) and reconstructed it to be in the shape she wanted for the fairy.
The helmet I made for the knight. It is made out of a Jarritos bottle cap. It was the soda that we had at my daughters 15th birthday party the cap was left over from that party. I did the same thing to this hat as I did to the pennies. In that I took a hammer to the cap till it was flat then I made a make shift anvil and shaped the piece to the knights head. It took about 8 hours to get the shape I wanted. I sat on the front porch working on this it was fun to do as random people walked past in the middle of the summer they would come over and see what I was making. The wings are some pieces we found at hobby lobby that are meant to be used for scrape booking but we thought it would be fun to have a Mercury look to the hat especially since the fairy already had wings. There are little pieces of leather (scrapes from the rabbit fur) tied to threw the holes I punched into the hat as I did the pennies ( adding the punches to the the jewel jar).
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