Book Week: Rodrick + Luna

Rodrick & Luna: When fictional worlds collide.

What is Book Week? If not a warm up for Halloween. Or an early traipse into a life long obsession with cosplay.
There's a bit of work helping the kids bring their favorite book characters to life. But as stressful as it can be, the end goal is worth the temporary loss of insanity.
This year the kids wanted to dress as Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling) and Rodrick Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney).

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A Rockstar is Born
Creating Rodrick was relatively easy. My youngest only wanted/needed a black shirt to be painted with the words 'löded diper'. She wore the painted shirt, jeans, and because it was a cold day she had a long sleeve shirt underneath. Actually when I come to think of it, she was dressed just like me. Anyhoo, we messed up her hair, sprayed it, and applied rockstar eyeliner, because... Rodrick is pure rockstar. 

 

 

Magic-ing up a Witch
Creating a Luna Lovegood costume was much more. Oh, so much more. I was on a tight schedule for this one. The costume had more components, such as a wand, Quibbler magazine, radish (I mean Dirigible Plum) earrings. I got through making this costume with the aid of the My Poppet Luna Lovegood cosplay tutorials. I loosely followed the My Poppet tutorials, with a few variations of my own. For instance, I made the earrings from sculpting and painting clay. I decorated the wand not with yarn, but with pipe cleaner, and I gave it a gilded appearance with a mega load of hot glue, and metallic paint.

 

 

DIY Legend of Zelda Cosplay

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For the average ghosty it is that time of year – Halloween! But for some it's Halloween all year round. That's right! I'm talking about cosplayers. And for all you cosplayer wannabes I've written an article tailor made just for you. So head on over to My Poppet and read about my design journey when I made a Linkle cosplay outfit.

DIY Legend of Zelda Character Costume

Plagg, Claws Out!

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Well, look at that! There's a DIY Chat Noir costume over at My Poppet. Just in time for Halloween. One of the neat things about this costume is that it can easily come together with bits and pieces from around your home.

New Things From Me

    At the start of the week, not a whole lot of new was happening. I was mostly just thinking, thinking, thinking.

    The last couple of days I got busy doll making and drawing. Not to say I'm not still thinking, because I'm always thinking. Would you believe it took two days to make this doll? And it took me an estimated two hours to work on the below illustration.

Melissa Gaggiano doll
"Mademoiselle Meow" design

Melissa Gaggiano illustration

Alphabet Cards

Just now I finished making alphabet cards for my daughter. The cards can be played in a variety of ways. Whether it be reorganizing the cards or simply naming the letter on the card. The back of each card has a word and picture associated with each letter of the alphabet.

I am on a roll at the moment. The other day I knitted a beanie for a new born baby — getting ready for the cold weather. And next on my agenda is to make a skirt for dress ups (just to clarify — it's for a toddler, not me)