Now that my busy season is out of the way I finally have time to revisit my Halloween costume! If you followed my blog last year you know that I did an entire costume series and you may have been left wondering just what I was going to be. Well, my husband made the decision for me (since we normally like to do the matching thing) and we went with Steampunk!
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| My necklace is missing in this picture. |
At the point he decided on it, I had already made my Steampunk Halloween post (see
http://customzombie.blogspot.com/2010/06/steampunk-halloween.html) so, basically, all of my creative work was done and the only thing left was to put together the pieces. Unfortunately, I couldn’t afford the awesome skirt featured in the original post. But I do have an awesome grandma that is a fantastic seamstress! So I bought my materials, packed up my machine and went to see her.
I made a few other changes to my original vision as well: the addition of half gloves, losing the ring, leaving off the spats, and switching the propeller necklace out for a compass one. I also painted a nerf gun to fit the part but it’s not really visible in my pictures.
I was extremely pleased with how the costume turned out (even though people kept asking me if I was supposed to be Amelia Earhart) and would be happy to have another chance to wear it!
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| I wish I could have found some affordable spats for him. |
My husband’s costume was much more difficult to come up with, mostly because he can’t make up his mind that far out from Halloween. In all fairness, I started asking in April and he didn’t decide until July. We went with a scientist/genius persona. You know the type – absorbed in his work, a bit disheveled and distracted. We grabbed the pants, shirt, pocket watch and shoes from a previous costume (Victorian-era Dracula) and me/my grandma made his vest. A quick jaunt through the interwebs produced a bowler, arm bands, goggles, and non-prescription glasses. I picked up the magnifying tool attached to the glasses at a hardware store. We bought a Nerf Maverick N-Strike to paint for the purpose. It turned out great! His costume was a hit and he was very pleased with it, which is a feat in itself!
This was our first Steampunk adventure but I don’t believe it will be our last…we had way too much fun!
