Last year when planning group costumes for a Halloween cruise with my costuming friend Tina and my blogging besties Miranda from Spooky Little Halloween and Cheyenne from Sense & Serendipity, my friend Miranda was all about Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She, Hallowqueen that she is, would obviously be Sabrina, and the other three of us would be the Weird Sisters. And […]
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Costuming Eleven from Stranger Things
Usually I make my own costumes. But last year when planning group costumes for a Halloween cruise with my costuming friend Tina and my blogging besties Miranda from Spooky Little Halloween and Cheyenne from Sense & Serendipity, my friend Miranda was wearing Stranger Things costumes come hell or high water, and I offered to dress as Eleven with her. Because […]
Costuming Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The iconic tuxedo shirt and Tiffany blue sleep mask is the perfect roll-out-of-bed pantsless costume for warm weather Halloweens, posh costume parties, and hot crowded cosplay conventions. I never cared to dress as Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s until I watched Big Little Lies…and then I had to! Here’s how I altered a shirt […]
A Simple Regency Summer Picnic Gown
Towards the beginning of this summer, and pandemic, we got invited to a socially distant Regency picnic by a member of the Houston Regency Society on their private property. It was so nice to have a historical costuming event to prepare for, as other events were being cancelled left and right. I had a Regency outfit […]
Oktoberfest Dirndl, but Make It Witchy
How many dirndls are too many? What started with one dirndl to wear to a wedding reception in Germany became several to wear to Texas Renaissance Festival and Oktoberfest events here in Texas…so why not make one a little more witchy for a dirndl group at Costume College? Following yesterday’s post on my 1950’s McGonagall […]
Wizardbounding 1950’s McGonagall
After finishing my McGonagall costume last year, a mountain of a project, I had a lot of spare olive fabric, both striped and pintucked. When we made plans to run a half marathon in Orlando, we also made plans to visit Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I wasn’t sure wizardbounding was a thing, but I […]
Costuming McGonagall from Harry Potter
Professor Minerva McGonagall is my favorite Potterverse character. She’s the true hero, and anyone who says otherwise can fight me. She has many classic looks in the films, but the one that captivated me the most was her outfit at the Yule Ball in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Stunning olive dress robes […]
Deanna Troi From Star Trek: TNG, but Make It DragonCon Marriott Carpet
Years ago before I learned how to sew, I custom ordered a Star Trek: TNG season 1 skant uniform from one of those cosplay dot com websites, and it was terrible. Wrong color, mainly, and even at the time I didn’t notice other huge inaccuracies. The company refused a refund, so I sat on it […]
Copying Beca’s Rhinestone Collar from Pitch Perfect 3
Pitch Perfect is one of my favorite movie franchises ever. I watch one of the three films every time I fly, quote all three movies in normal conversation, and I’ve made several costumes over the years. So on a recent flight last year, I zeroed in on Beca’s rhineston collar in Pitch Perfect 3 and […]
Costuming Claire from Outlander: Season 1 (WWII)
As if I don’t have enough Claire costumes from Outlander, I have one from season 3 that is unfinished, and since the beginning I wanted to put together this casual costume she wears in the first episode of season 1. Claire was a nurse in the 1940s and when World War II ended, she found […]