My costume is officially started.

[sweetpea_grubb]

I just purchased all my makeup stuff and a hat tonight. Yeah, I know I said I'd just use a hat I already had but the more I thought about it the more I realized how difficult it would be to smoothly cover a curvy hat in fabric, even stretchy fabric. So I then started searching for purple hats in the right style. Nada. White hats that I could dye? None in the right style that were a material I could dye and were in my price range. I started frantically searching using any random words I could think of that might bring up the right hat. "Purple felt hat". Bingo! I had to skim through several pages because I didn't type in a specific style but it was worth it. That hat is one-in-a-million! I also kinda like that it's not a bright purple. And the price made me squee with glee.

Phew! Huge load off my shoulders. Now all I have to do is figure out how I'm going to make the shoulder armor and the rest of the costume should be pretty straight-forward. I've actually been thinking over the armor pretty thoroughly and I've found a few foam armor tutorials. This is the one I think I'm going to use primarily, for both the gold edge and the spikes. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and see just how realistically metallic that armor looks!

For the blue base I'm just going to quilt some fabric and tack it on to something, maybe more foam.

Oh yeah, feelin' good about this.

In other news, work is awesome and I LOVE puppeteering. Come to Disneyland and see the Playhouse Disney show!