What will you be for this Halloween? Every year I look forward to dressing up and making a unique costume. It is fun and I enjoy the creative part, it not always turns out the way I thought but I have fun trying. This year I was the "Swamp Gal" dressed in all green. I got the idea from Martha Stewart's magazine.
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| the skirt |
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| the top |
Only I changed it quite a bit to my own body fitting and supplies that were available to me. I got most of my items at the $1 store and was pleased at finding almost all that I needed.
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| my shirt |
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| the back of my head piece |
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| the back of my hands |
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| I made this last year |
- green t-shirt from Michaels
- green scrubbie from $1 store
- green dish rag with scrubber background from $1 store
- green yarn from my "stash"
- green with red polka dots socks from $1 store
- green capris that I already had
- green with black specks plastic tablecloth from $1 store
- green dish scrubbies [2] from $1 store
- green child's crinnkle net skirt from $1 store
- green headband wig from $1 store
- green hair spray from Walmart
- green face paint I had
- green foam sheets and green glitter sheets from $1 store
- green paper plates from $1 store
- green balloons from $1 store
- green and sprarkly ribbons from $1 store
As you can see most was the $1 store, I first took the scrubbies and slit open one end and took out the foam then I made holes for my fingers to go through on the other end and those were my hand mits, which were great because I still had my fingers free but it gave a spiny top and a netted bottom like a sea creature might have, lol...
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oh yeah I painted my nails glow in the dark green
and the rings lit up too |
then I attached the shiny dish cloth to the the netting skirt to set over my head, I took apart the bath scrubbies and pulled the netting and cut it for arms length and attached them to my t-shirt sleeves and sewed on some yarn for decoration on the shirt along with red and green dots and green balloons were hanging all over the shirt,
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| this was the skirt part |
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I did get some glitter sticker dots and put them
on my face to match my feet and shirt |
then I attached the ribbons to the neckline, then I took the plastic table cloth and cut it into strips to wear over my capris and hooked with yarn,
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| my feet |
I made flippers to tie over my shoes out of the foam and made my gills with the sparkle foam and paper plates, I just cut 1 plate in 1/2 and then one 1/2 in 1/2 again and cut a pie shape out of the sparkle and stapled it together. :)
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| not my beast angle |
When you put it all together the nice part about having 2 faces was that I was able to wear the headpiece and then take it off and still have a scary face. lol...so what do you think????
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| fully dressed at the party |
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| the sleeves |
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| all the extras |
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| my hair color and socks |
Happy Halloween
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