This year for Halloween I didn't plan on doing anything aside from going trick or treating with my husband, bff, and my godchildren the Friday before actual Halloween.(We were a combinations of Avengers & Faries lol) The week of Halloween my cousin text me to say she was having a Halloween party at her house and Casey & I should attend. I'm not gonna lie I got excited. This was a chance to make a costume that could be as creative as I wanted it to be. Then it hit me, I needed to not only come up with something for myself but one for my husband as well. I knew I wanted them to match or be related in some way and I knew I only had a couple days to pull it all off. My budget was basically $00.00 and anything I made for my husband i'd have to pray it fit him because he was away at outdoor school with our niece the whole week before Halloween.
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| WHOOOOO would we be for Halloween ? |
I started by looking through a million of my own boards on pintrest for all those AMAZING ideas i'd saved for myself and realized majority of them couldn't be done in such a short time. After digging through my costume trunk I got the perfect idea. My husband could be the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and I could be Alice. The morning of the party I planned to run to the mall grab a light blue dress and use a t-shirt as an apron. I had it all planned out, or so I thought. While waiting for my husband to finish playing Playstation so we could run to the mall I got an idea. I CAN MAKE THE HAT, THE MAD HATTER HAT! It was a go BIG or go HOME kind of brain blast. I went back on pintrest and of course I had already pinned a how-to picture of the hat. After running though the apartment looking for spare cardboard I got to work.
First I cut out the necessary cardboard pieces to contruct my hat. The brim I had to cut out in 2 half circles I attached together to fit perfectly around my head.
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| The brim, a center piece, and a top |
Next I cut out strips of cardboard to construct the sides of the hat. I attached them to the top of the hat. Then added the smaller cardboard circle halfway down the hat. Lastly I attached the bottoms of the cardboard to the brim of the hat.
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| The cardboard skeleton of the hat. |
After completing the cardboard skeleton and securing it with tape and hot glue I moved on to covering it.
I went through my bin of scrap fabrics and found a t-shirt I used for a costume in high school and a old pair of leggins. I started by covering the sides first with the t-shirt.
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| Sides covered, getting ready for the brim |
Next I took the leggins and and cut them into pieces to fit around the brim as well as the top.
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| The first layer all glued into place. |
I knew from the start (or after I saw it sitting on the floor) that I wanted to cover the hat with lace. I found a scarf I almost forgot about and used that and the band around my hat. For the 10/6 card I used a book page left over from a cut out book I made last Christmas.
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| The Finished Product |
For the rest of my costume I work things I already owned. A tweed blazer, long sleeve shirt, tulle skirt, tights, flats, and a scarf tied into a bow. I did my own make-up (the glitter I was still washing off a couple days after)
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| Pouring some TEA |
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| My Full Costume |
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| True Love |
