Sewing My Mouth Shut

So for Halloween Jen wants to do fake stitches, so I said I had the material for it, but I didn't know if it would still work, because they were so old. It did work though. By the way, you can use this for Kurloz from Homestuck, its just hard to open your mouth with it on. 

This is what I look like when I tried making fake stitches.

(My girlfriend thought I actually sewed my mouth shut. I just went with that, and she was so worried. It was funny too.) 

Dying Hood

So this time I bought the right type of fabric dye and it actually works. Who would have thought of that? Anyway, it took about 30 to 45 minutes to dye it, then I had to wash it. I made a mass while I tried to get the hood out of the dye and into the washing machine, because it was really hot that it was burning my hand. So now the washing machine has 3 spots of black dye on it. Oops! Anyway, the hood turned out amazing!

This package is really hard to open without ripping it, because the directions are on the inside (who thought of that?). Anyway, this is the type of dye I used.

Note: Will post what the hood looks like later!

Grimbark Jade Dog Ears

Do I made my Grimbark Jade Dog ears. It wasn't that hard to make. All I used was shoulder pads from some woman's shirt I bought a long time ago, and cut off (this is why you don't throw things away). Next I hot glued cotton balls to it, and pulled them off when the glue dried. That way the cotton balls had that feathery look to it. Once I finished all that, I just painted them black.

Here's what the back of them look like

Here is what the front of them look like

Note: I didn't think this would work, so I didn't take pictures of them before I started to make them. Sorry. :(

Found Something Out

So a few days ago I was thinking about how people make their troll horns for Homestuck characters shiny. I looked different tutorials, and then thought "Why don't I try using clear nail polish." Well I went to the dollar store, and found some nail polish called "Super Dry" (dollar store stuff have weird names). I bought 1, and came home and painted my Karkat horns with the nail polish. Guess what! It makes it enough shiny, that it doesn't look like its been polished 50 million times, but gives it a nice gloss to it. It does take a few coats though. I did about 2 really thick layers, and then added extra to the places that needed it. It looks so much better then just painting them with the candy corn colors.

Here's the one before I painted it with nail polish

Here's what it looks like after it is painted with nail polish

The type of nail polish I used (see it's called "Super Dry")

Welcome To Night Vale

If you haven't guessed already, I'm doing a Cosplay of Cecil from Welcome To Night Vale. Today I decided to do this Cosplay for the next con I am going to (which is in the end of February). My brothers needed some close, so I went with them to the store to get stuff. We went to Good Will first, and I found the perfect sweeter vest and long sleeve shirt for Cecil. Next we went to Kohl's and I found a dark purple tie there. So I am pretty much done with the Cosplay, and I got it all in one day! Now I either need to: cut and dye my hair (planing on doing this anyway) or get a wig, make glasses, and figure out how I want to do that tattoos.

This is what I have so far (had a pair of headphones laying around)

Close up of the tie and stuff

Note: Sorry about the lighting. I was using my webcam to take photos of it

Cleaning

So last night I was cleaning my room, and what do I find? Socks that will work perfect for Grimbark God Tier Jade. I also found some shoes that are black, that I can paint to be red also. Now all I need left is her shirt, glasses (Jessica said she will let me borrow her's, but I might make my own), dog ears, and make-up. I am deciding still if I want to do Grimbark or just normal God Tier Jade. But whatever I decide, I am almost done with it. All that is left is little things to do. Well .... not the shirt, but everything other then that.

So cleaning your room once in awhile is actually a good thing people. 

Styling Wig For Meulin Leijon

Today I spent 3 to 4 hours styling a wig for Jessica. She is going to be Meulin Leijon from Homestuck for Anime Land Wasabi (ALW) 2014. The wig was a Halloween wig, that she found in her closet, so it has a lot of knots that I had to get out while I styled it. Here are the photos I took while I was doing it.

Here is where I was like "Oh! I should take photos while I do this". So I do not have a photo of what the wig looked like before I started, but this is as close to it as I got. 

As you can see I just used T-pins and found it to the style I wanted it to be, then sprayed it with hair spray.

Here is what the piece above turned out looking like after I took the pins out.

Here is after I did a few

Another photo of the same amount done as the above photo

After a few more got done

Didn't really like how they started turning out, so I had to "fix" them, and here is what it looks like now

Here's me working on another section of the wig

Now its done! (front angle)

Now its done! (right side angle)

Now its done! (back angle)

Now its done! (left side angle) 

This is what it looks like on Jessica. She said she really liked it. What do you guys think?