A few weeks ago my digital kitchen scales broke. So what? I hear you say. So, apparently my baking mojo has broken with it. Even since I have not been able to double check my measurements with my scales, everything I make has seemed to be fatally flawed. I know that I could just go and buy another one but i’m so close to finally paying off my credit card debt that I just don’t want to splash out that sort of moolah for a good set of scales. And so, I have been resorting to my other hobby to keep myself occupied. Sewing!
So I bought some super fluffy pink flannelette fabric
of course it had to have bunnies on it
and made myself some pyjama pants!
Mum brought me back the tshirt from the Magnolia Bakery in New York last year.
Excuse the total mess behind me.
In case you couldn’t see in the pic, I cut the fabric upside down.
Oops!
but of course its all a-ok because it means that the bunnies are the right way up for me!
p.s. totally loving mums fleecy cupcake pjs. Might have to whip myself up a pair!
and of course, wearing warm fluffy pjs requires disney. Lots of disney.
Apart from the slight problem cutting the fabric, I was very pleased with how these turned out. This is the first garment i’ve made and i’m still teaching myself all the bits and pieces involved. Of course, I couldn’t stop there. I had known for months that a big costume party was fast approaching. With a theme of ‘medieval’ I was a bit stuck as all the ebay costumes were sexy wench, sexy viking or medieval princess and were either super expensive or just a bit boring. My boy and I never really dress up for parties so, seeing as this was a 30th celebration, we thought that we would surprise everyone and go all out. I didn’t want to go down the ebay route so we tried to figure out some different ideas to fit in with the theme. I have to say that I think my suggestions were pretty good:
- space vikings (with lots of silver and glitz)
- ninjas (because who says medieval has to be european? And i’ve always wanted to go to a ninja party)
- samurais (same as above)
Finally I came up with the idea of Odin (King of the Gods) and Valkryie (female spirits who took the souls of the valiant warriors to eternal bliss with Odin in Valhalla). I won’t post a pic of the boy up here but it is safe to say that our costumes were so complete that no one recognised us when we arrived. I do have a picture of the beard and wig he wore which will give you a bit of an idea…
He wore the same hat as in the picture there and the wig looked just as good in person as it did on the box.
I call that a win! I went down the anima/manga influenced Valkyrie with an electric blue and gold colour scheme.
I whipped up a skirt out of electric blue velour (never again as that fabric is so tricky to sew with!)
cut out some gold velour as a cape
Used a bit of gold spray paint on an old belt and some boots
popped on a blonde wig
and…
voila!
Of course every good valkyrie spends time stitching extra elastic onto Odin’s beard…
I also made a pair of arm warmers out of the extra blue fabric as it was a super cold night but I can’t find a good pic of them at the moment. Overall I was pretty pleased with how the outfits turned out and I’m racking my brain trying to come up with other places to bust out those gold boots. Any ideas, my lovely readers? And what was the best costume you ever wore to a party?