Tag: Costume
Where to find costume ideas and materials
As the calendar moves from August to September we head towards the last days of sun for a few months here in the Pacific Northwest. With the fall comes the rain, and for me that is the sign that it is time to start sewing costumes again. Having weather a…
Halloween Planning Session 2012
Me (at the breakfast table): Alright kids I know it is a bit away but if I am going to sew costumes for Halloween this year I need to start figuring that out soon. So what do you want to be? The girl: I want to be a Rainbow Dash….
Cheap Sci-Fi Costume Ideas
While most of my costuming tends towards the elaborate and rather expensive, I also have made some pretty low-budget costumes as well. Here are a few ideas for cheap Sci-Fi themed costumes. I hope you find something here that you can use. Mech Pilot: Decorate a helmet with a number…
Cheap and Easy Sci-Fi Convention Costumes
Costumes galore… One of the aspects of the Science Fiction convention we go to each year, Orycon in Portland Oregon, is that people dress in all sorts of great costumes. And while most of them are more inclined to be grouped with a genre, such as Steam Punk or Pirates,…
A Seamstress’ tribute to the Safety Pin
A Brief History of the Safety Pin I have been gone from my site for a while as my attention has turned to costuming and prepping for our upcoming convention. But tonight I felt that I needed to put into pictures why I love the safety pin as part of…
Bioshock2 Little Sister Costume
So despite the business that comes with the end of the school year, especially when you have two scouts and a mom who is graduating college, I have managed to find time to discover the ultimate in cute costumes for my daughter. A bit of back story if you will,…
Spiky gloves
So while searching the web for fidget toys for my son to use in class I discovered these great pair of gloves from The Therapy Shoppe. Obviously they are designed as therapy gloves for people with sensory issues, but I can help but see them as also being potentially cool…
Instant Con Costume Eyeshadow
So being perfectly honest, make-up was one of those things I never did really figure out. Sure I know the basic idea of what goes where, in what order, and how to apply it. But I never went through middle school looking like a peacock with all the other girls,…
Ring for your Geek Guy
Check out this ring, it is sure to bring out the geek in your guy. I am thinking about getting this for my husband as an accessory for his Steam Punk costume for Orycon. The price is a little steep but totally understandable considering how cool it is. Not only…
Man vs Dice – Part 2
As promised here I am again to bring you up to current on the continued, and ever ongoing Man vs Dice saga. While the great game of awesome roles continued to elude him, many an attempt has been made to understand the psychology of the bag of dice that our…
