Zack decided to dress as a samurai for the costume ball next weekend, but couldn’t find a good costume. We tried to rent one, no luck. We tried to buy one here in town, really no luck. Then we looked on the internet. There were costumes that we liked, but not prices that we liked. Seriously, $100 for a costume???
I didn’t know what to do, so I asked my friends on Facebook for advice. And they came to my rescue…
My sister Theresa was inspired! She did all kinds of research on making samurai costumes, got all kinds of awesome ideas and came up Friday afternoon to help.
We had tons of websites open on 3 different computers with patterns that other people had used to make their samurai costumes, authentic and original armor, and pictures of swords.
So we gathered up our supplies of poster board, fabric, picnic mats, paints, brads, grommets, foam core, spray paint, duct tape, spray glue, electrical tape, hole punches, bias tape, cotton cording, elastic and a few other miscellaneous items and we were ready to go. And about 27 hours later, we were done!!!
each piece of armor was individually cut out, accented with about 60 grommets and “rivets” (brads), spray painted, hand painted with details, threaded back together, and then reinforced on the backs with duct tape
the sword and sheath were a lot of work, but the extra details like the fabric covered sheath and handle, the gold cord and beads, the “metal” accents on the sheath, the gold cord on the handle and the dragons on the hilt also make it extra special
my friend Kate found this perfect jacket at Goodwill and Theresa and I made these pants out of some old fabric we got from a local grange hall. The flip-flops were on clearance at Wal-Mart.
it looked so great but we realized there were still a few improvements to make…
so we got them all done and now we’re ready for the ball…
5 comments:
Wow! You guys are all super creative, Kory and Chad were very impressed with the "weapons" (of course)!
The link for the blog I found the pumpkin info on is here:
http://www.notquitejunecleaver.com/2009/10/friday-baking-with-notquitejunecleaver-recipes-for-october-16-23/
Basically the reason was low acidity in the pumpkin, makes it a prime candidate for botulism, even pumpkin butter- had to do also with the density of the pumpkin in the jars and varying processing times. She mentions adding lemon juice or vinegar but that gives the pumpkin a bitter taste I guess - I just have bought a couple sugar pumpkins, in the last couple years so I don't have a big quantity that I'm handling - if the freezer is getting full, if you've been doing it and you have a method tried and true - go ahead and do what you've done in the past.
Funny story, Nicole and I decided to make pumpkin muffins with since we had the fresh, puree. I was doing the dry, she the moist. Combined all ingredients, the muffins baked up nice, but were a little rubbery - oops! She didn't add any oil, so we basically made fat free muffins.
Wow...That's incredibly elaborate! That is an awful lot of work for that costume, but it looks fab!
Now what about the other boys???
Keep us posted on the other outfits as well!
No Leanne, no one else is getting a costume because no one else is going to the ball. Thank goodness! :o)
TOOOOO stinkin' awesome! I can't wait to see all the kiddos together with their creative costumes!
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