Team Zissou Halloween 2015

Did a team Zissou costume this year complete with the jaguar shark for my 2-year old. Made her truck or treat bag out of a clearance canvas bag. Ordered track suits on Amazon and used duct tape for the stripes, was able to find team Zissou patches on eBay. 

Didn't spring for the adidas, ended up just throwing yellow shoelaces into my existing sneakers

Dyed a shark costume brown with icily dye and used glow in the dark fabric paint for the spots, went back after it dried to do black outline for 'jaguar' spots with black acrylic paint.

Mostly just impressed my almost-two year old kept it on for three blocks of trick-or-treating. 

Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween Headstones

I decided to make my own graveyard this year. I've always enjoyed clever Halloween tombstones, I just didn't realize that you can't find them in store.

I ended up resorting to 1 1/2" foam insulation, I printed out my epitaphs and traced then into the board using an exacto knife, then carved out the letters with my speedball linoleum cutter.

I almost ended up investing in a Dremel drill, but once I got the first one carved out I seemed to speed through the rest. I didn't go overly aged, decided to just go with a couple of coats of grey, figure I can always do more next year, planning on adding to the set.

I had bought thin metal stakes to stand them up, but they didn't do the trick. 

Ended up using caulk and gorrila glue tape to secure pvc piping to the back of the tombstones and sliding into rebar staked in the yard.

It came out nice, feel ready to embrace the Halloween season, hopefully these will last a while.

 My favorite is the zombie tombstone. Think I'll add some details to the others next year, or whenever I make more.

 

Halloween 2014

Halloween 2014 Peg + Cat

This is a DIY costume. 

Not wanting to sew everything from scratch I started with a cat costume from eBay and some iPoly dye 

Instead of using the iPoly dye on the stove as directed I boiled a pasta pot full of water and used that to fill one of my husbands 5 gallon work buckets (outside), I covered it with a piece of cardboard to keep the temperature up and went out to stir occasionally. 

For the yarn wig I bought two variations of yellow, I made a large circle with the yarn, that when halved was about the length of my fart and went down alternating coloring making slipknots to create a wig, I made it a little long so that I could trim it to my desired length. 

The pants I made by bleaching some old leggings and them placing elastic bands down the length of each leg prior to dying my desired color. 

I sewed this jacket, but I would highly recommend just trying to find one you can dye.