Val's Costume Page

Here I am in my Sally costume from Nightmare Before Christmas. At work a group decorated their department in a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. How cool was that? I created the pattern and pieced this together myself. Very proud. The shoes are cool but it's hard to see them here. My stockings also have the frankenstein stitches on them, too.


Here I am with Jack, a coworker. The head is papier mache. Very neat solution to the mask problem.



A snowman made of pumpkins. Giving me lots of ideas for Halloween decorations.



The Jack pumpkin from our pumpkin decorating contest.



A Nightmare Christmas tree. Very festive!




Jack and I ran around together all that day. It was true love. :-)

Ben and I are Star Wars fans, tho loyal to the original trilogy. When the trilogy was re-released we had a Star Wars party, and Ben was a Jedi and then-boyfriend Rich was Darth Vader. Much theatrics ensued. We played the movies and arranged our old action figures. Yeah, we're total geeks. This Halloween pictured here, I am a Jedi and Ben is Darth Maul. His face makeup was great and he startled our guests.



Here I am closeup, at work earlier that day. Maybe it's easier to see some of the costume. It is entirely homemade, and the fabric was very earthy and had great natural texture, which I thought was befitting a Jedi.



At our party with friend Holli as Ophelia.


The threesome here is Morgana Marianne, Medusa Ann, and Gypsy Michelle.

A cube fairie! I tried to create a flower fairie costume one year. Once the wings and flowers are removed I could wear it as a normal dress. Also minus the ears, of course. Here I am at work in costume. What you can't see are an arrangement of crystals/stones on the bodice.


I found lots of similar creatures that day. Here is a little bee.


Two hip, naughty, and sarcastic angels. Friend Charlene on the left.

Ben and I adore Halloween, and often have costume parties, and related costumes (made ourselves, usually). One year we were Boy George (me, Colour By Numbers) and Gary Numan (Telecon) but I can't find any pictures, it was too long ago. Same for Marilyn Monroe and JFK. Here we are as an angel and a devil.




Here I am with Jennifer in her costume. It was quite beautiful! The fabric was lovely.







Entirely unplanned, Rick showed up as a dark angel!

Howdy!

As a costumer/sewer I've long wanted to share pics of my projects with friends and with other costumers and on-line costumer listserve virtual friends. Well, here we go!

Some of my sewing accomplishments include a Renn Faire serving wench, a Hobbit based on Rosie's party dress, a Boromir costume (like a knight) from Lord of the Rings (for Ben to wear), Eowyn's "refugee dress," Arwen's "dying dress" altered as a top, a replica of Pearl's Castle Forrester uniform from the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, a Jedi, Boy George from his Colour By Numbers days, a replica of the shirt worn by Lestat in concert from the film Queen of the Damned (again, for Ben), an elaborate belly dancing costume, and other less interesting projects.

Sewing sort of halted when I got pregnant, even tho I have some baby projects in the wings. I'm also working on other Lord of the Rings costumes, and a replica of Neo's coat from Matrix Reloaded for Ben. Let's see...it's January now. Perhaps I can give that to Ben for a present NEXT Winter Solstice! Wish me luck.

I will scan in already-completed pics of projects and then add new projects as they come up. They may be slow, because as a new mom I don't have much time to sew these days, and several projects are on the backburner now.

Poor, lonely piles of cloth. I pledge to save you from the crazy quilt fate!

Later,
Val