halloween '11

The 31st this year was no different than the previous ones. The costume was last minute AGAIN, but luckily it turned out alright on the day itself. Anton insisted on being a Jedi Knight, and he suggested that I be Queen Amidala. My first thought was where the f am I going to get a Queen Amidala outfit? by tomorrow? It was Sunday night and I had nothing close to the clothes of the woman I looked up on Google. So I first thought of the most important part of the outift: the hair + head gear. The hair was a big problem, so I decided to stop dreaming and let go of the hair, and just work on the head thing. After that, I searched for a red something for the outfit itself, but I couldn't find any so I settled for a short red dress I had in my closet. I had to have a big collar and the front tail with gold prints on it, so I made a collar using brown paper and just painted it red, attached it to a strip of red painted brown paper and just worked on improvising a simpler gold print myself.

on the upper left hand area of the photo are the "ears" for the head gear. I wasn't able to take a photo of just the head thing. 

my collar. I just cut out the round thing first then attached the turtle neck later on.

the front tail.

Tada! Here's a photo of the full outfit. I just used face paint for the white on my face, eyeliner, and my sister's dark lipgloss for the lips and dots. For Anton's Jedi costume, he wore black pants, boots, his brother's toga, a cape on top, and a belt to hold everything down at the waist.

So that's it for Halloween '11! Despite the last minute stress, I think I am quite satisfied with the costume outcome of this year. The last time I actually worked on an outfit was 2 years ago when I had to make my Jessie from Toy Story outfit. This one might've been harder, but it was worth it!

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