Wizard of Oz

Yep it is musical time again and all three of my kids are in the play.  Not leading roles but fun rolls: 1 monkey, 3 Ozians', 1 munchkin, 1 jitterbug dancer/singer, 1 jitterbug singer, 2 poppies... and as always all tech crew.

I helped a tiny bit with costumes and I do mean a tiny tiny bit this year. I have had a lot of family things I have had to do that has kept me away from doing as much as I use to.

 I made

•  my kids costumes
•  the poppies skirts
•  the trees
• loaned Glenda's dress and modified it
• 1 munchkin
• 1scarcrow head
• loaned shirt to tin man and face paint
• loaned bow tie wizard
• loaned spider and face paint witch 
• repaired lots of poppy flowers
• repaired Dorothy's dress
• reworked 3 raven masks made beaks yellow to make them more crow like and loaned

  I am sure I will repair more before the play is done .  Still figuring out parts of things for the Ozian's for my kids so the photos are works in progress.

Haunted cookie house

My youngest daughter made our haunted house this year.  We usually do it together but I was busy and she wanted to do it.  She did this yesterday while  I was running errand with my middle daughter.  The oldest decided she would sort of help and did one cobweb and the tomb stone.

Life has been a little crazy busy as of late I hope to be back to blogging soon but that is how life goes.

perserving a pumpkin at halloween

After you scoop out and carve your pumpkin, dip it in a large container of bleach and water (use a 1 tsp:1 gal mix). The bleach will kill bacteria and help your pumpkin stay fresh longer. Once completely dry, (drain upside down), add 2 tablespoon of vinegar and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to a quart of water. Brush this solution onto your pumpkin to keep it looking fresh for weeks.

Dhaos Costume

 

One of my friends has a daughter who wanted to go to the Salt Lake Comic Con as the character Dhaos.   The picture to the left is what the character looks like.  According to my oldest daughter the character is a guy that is a demon God of some sort that is trying to protect magic so his world will not die or something like that.  Yeah don't ask me I do not know at all.  I just know I had to make the costume.

This is what I cam up with for the under part of the out fit.  I bought a turtle neck shirt and some yoga pants at Ross.  My oldest daughter designed the parts that had to be in yellow on the computer and made me templates to use.  Would not have been able to do this very easy without her help.  I used her templates to make the appliqués that I hand sewed on and for the gloves that are sewn to the ends of the sleeves.So yes you put the gloves on at the exact same time as you do the shirt.  The head band is a burka style hat with a hole cut in the op to accommodate the hair coming out.

For the first cape you have to wear I used flannel.  Once again my daughter helped me with the appliqué patterns.  So this is kind of a warm costume for the summer months but a lot of costumes are very warm.
  Encase you are curious this is me in these photos usually I use my children as my mannequins but I was closer to her size then my children are.  The person playing this character has to get her own shoes as that is too hard to fit without he person there to try them on.  She is also had to pick up her own bangle bracelets.

The final part of the costume is the red over cape. For this I actually used a wood burner to make the holes around the face area of the cape and to make the fringe made it much faster to make as I hid not have to sew around all the fringe like I did on the first cape.  I have decided that making anime costumes is actually kind of hard as are no rules how you can draw clothes.  But for a first try I think it came out pretty good.