So I was filming a project at a remote location and I look up into the trees and there is the Cullen’s house from New Moon.  I took a picture and thought I would share.  Pretty cool, huh.

So I decided to make the prince Beast Costume to go with my Belle costume-minus the Beast part.  It took me about a week.  Let me know what you guys think!

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My website has been a bit neglected due to the fact that I have been filming and nursing my boyfriend back to health from the swine flu. I apologize and I want you to know I have not forgotten you! Lots of love and stay healthy.

I like to call this the Fifteen Minute Han Solo Costume, because that is all the time I had to throw this costume together for my buddy Fed.  I think that it turned out pretty good, all things considered.  He even made it into the newspaper!  Most of it is alterations of thrift store treasures.  Let me know what you think!  All in all, it cost about twenty bucks!

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Due to popular request I will be posting a Snape tutorial soon. Keep checking back!
Cheers!

Hands down the hardest costume I have ever constructed. With all the leather working, sculpting, and faux embroidery I lost track of the hours I spent on this one. The leather I got for free, and if I divulged how I managed to do that I would have to kill you all! I MacGyver’d the tooling on the leather with a block of wood and a screwdriver.

The hardest part was the embroidery. I tried hand embroidery for the tunic, but it would have taken me years instead of months to finish. It was way to expensive to have it done professionally, (as in 6,000 dollar too expensive), so I searched online on how to fake embroidery. I found that thread company Kreinik does iron-on thread, turned out to be my best bet. http://www.kreinik.com/ Though still expensive, (about a dollar a meter), it wasn’t as expensive as having it done professionally. I went through about 280 meters of thread and still didn’t finish the bottom of the tunic.  The thing about anything iron-on is that it has to be top stitched. So I bought some invisible thread and ran the tunic through the sewing machine.

I have to thank the amazing Jonathan Castile for sculpting the buckles. I’d say he did an excellent job. The initial plan was to do silicone molds and resign castings, however the deadline for the costume was looming and the terra cotta clay positive ended up on the end product. It’s holding up pretty good.

I premiered this costume with the paint still wet at a comic-con party aboard The Rose in San Diego.

Currently one of my biggest vice’s is thrift stores!  Ironically as a child I didn’t want to be caught dead in one, due to a life altering episode of Who’s the Boss, (if you saw it, you would remember it).  Now as a starving artist I thrive in those glorious piles of junk, those misplaced garments and those neglected heaps of trash.  Every once in a while I stumble upon a real treasure.

I had no intention spending my day yesterday altering a dress to fit my version of Belle from Beauty and the Beast-but that is what I did.  The dress was a prom reject from Macy’s still new with tags still attached, (worth about $400.00), I got it for $25.00.  As I perused the rest of the store I found a matching scrap piece of yellow fabric that cost .99 cents for the sleeves.  I rummaged in my costume closest at home and found a brown wig, a little sprits here and few boby pins there and wala !  Instant Belle Halloween costume.  Sometimes I surprise even myself with my resourcefulness.  Feel free to leave a comment if you like.  I would love to hear your stories of thrifting.

Oh yes, it will be mine.  My next costume adventure will be to recreate the red dress worn by Uhura in the newest installment of Star Trek.  It’s been really hard finding reference pictures, but here are a few that I have.

Here is a little mask that I made inspired by the Venician Style of masks.  Made with glue, flour, casting gauze, and wall putty.  It has the old papery feel to it, yet is really strong, stronger even than sculpy.  Maybe I’ll do a how to tutorial…