In light of all this, I find myself needing a distraction from the house-selling stresses so the obvious choice is to get busy doing something easy, simple and relaxing right? Nope, not for me... I've decided to take on the task of making halloween costumes for both my husband and myself. Ghost costumes would have been perfect... or even bride and groom... but no, we're going as Cleopatra and Marc Antony.
I have decided to blog about my challenge. Mind you, I have NEVER made a costume before, let alone completely constructing clothing for costumes as well as all the associated accessories.
I found a lot of free resources online, including some videos on helmet constructing from youtube, but nothing had exactly what I wanted so I had to add on to what I found and take bits and pieces from different tutorials and piece them together.
Here's what I've done so far:
I made the base of the helmet with cardboard. The top rounded part is made using 3 strips of cardboard, taped together in the middle in a star formation. To the right you can also see my Cleopatra Crown and a couple other details as well.
The shield is made using a $1 store tin foil tray and a large flat bottomed bowl, also from the $1 store. I hot glued them together, which won't hold them together well enough so I will paper mache it all later. I added some detail to the front with cardboard.
The other side of the shield. I used vinyl straps attached to the tin foil tray with nuts and bolts. One is bigger for the forearm and the smaller one is for the hand.
This will be the medallion for my husbands robe. Two cardboard circles, one bigger than the other. I drew on a basic image initially, which I traced over with puff paint later.
The shield has been paper mached.
The helmet was painted all over with a dark green paint and then painted over top with gold to get this bronze look.
I bought some feather-esque things from the dollar store and hot glued them to the top of the helmet.
The medallion and shield were painted with gold spray paint first and then I took some black paint and wiped it around with a cloth to create the same bronze look as the helmet.
I cut the head off of a rubber snake from the dollar store and hot glued it to the top of a broom stick. I wrapped some cording and webbing around it to add some detail.
That is all for now. Stay tuned for updates :)
