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Right, So in honour of the New Doctor Who season starting, I spent most of last Sunday making souffles (one chocolate-raspberry, and one cheese and herb)... something I am actually apparently good at, yay!

so, here's the business... I'm going to clean up my house... then tomorrow...all tomorrow I'm going to work on sorting through pictures, and posting the things that I've been neglecting for the past several months.... No promises, but I really want to have everything updated and such.  

Ciao!

kemendraugh reblogged your post: Just out of curiosity, who went to Comic Con today?

Ack! You were BOTH Idris and Lady Loki? You were TWO of my favourite costumes? I had no idea :D :D You both looked...

I know, really? another post about busy I've been...but I have been... I'm working on a ton of productions right now, so I haven't really had time for internet lovelyness.  But hopefully this weekend I'll get caught up with everything (ha! laughs!) my friend is playing at a club tomorrow, which is exciting... anyways I'm going to be posting some neat stuff soon...

Soooo my rather talented photographer friend texted me saying that he was going to do a 1940's shoot and asked if I wanted to help out.  So of course I just had to make a hat.  Fortunately, my Greek Myth class spent a while going over the syllabus and basic background stuff, so I had enough time to come out with a quick sketch xD  and I went by dollarama on the way home to get supplies...

For anyone who's interested: here's a How to:

First things first: A concept sketch

Doesn't have to be good, just a very basic idea so you know what materials you're going to need

2nd step: Finding cheap wonderful things

Everything in this hat ('cept the cheerios box...i had that because i likes breakfast cereals) was bought at dollarama...  The basic fabric from the hat was cut from a scarf, the pearls were bracelets, some feathers from some weird stick things and a hair pin... that's it...super cheap eh?

3rd Step: Prepping the materials

The "tail feathers" I chose were actually plastic, and were only cut a few times, so I shaped them a bit and made many more "feathery fluff pieces"

Here's all the items separated and ready for hat construction

Step 4: Basic Cardboard shape

Cut out the structure from an old cereal box, you could use any sort of cardboard but it has to be flexible enough to be shaped without having weird creases.  I chose to taper mine. 

Trace out the inside of the loop and then draw a bigger circle around it.  Cut out some wedges so that you can easily bend it down to make the centre stand up.

Step 5: Shaping the centre piece

To make the centre curve inwards, make a slit down the middle and score around it.  Secure everything with packing tape.  It looks a little bit like a vagina right now, but whatever, vaginas are cool xD

Step 6: Weldbond time!

  So I guess you could use any white glue you want for this, as long as it has a strong hold it will be fine.  I personally love weldbond, it's like magic; it's thick, and dries quickly, is waterproof, and has an amazing hold... I swear by this stuff...

Anyhoo, so you want to start gluing from the top down, working with thin layers of glue so it doesn't seep through and stretching the felt to minimize wrinkles.  A few wrinkles on the main part are fine because it's going to be covered in feathers, but the outer ring should be smooth. 

Step 7: Feathers

Using a small amount of weldbond, carefully glue the feathers to the centre section starting at the middle of the front and move backwards. 

Step 8: Gluing together and finishing touches

Using a glue gun stick the centre and the outside pieces together.  Put the tail feathers pointing backwards and then glue pearls around the outside edge, making sure that the holes aren't facing upwards. 

Step 9: Finishing Touches

Right now, when you look underneath the hat, it still looks a little bit like lady bits, so cover it up with some felt. 

Make a strut out of cereal box cardboard, cover in felt and attached some hair clips to it.  Depending on the angle of the hat you might want to attach clips or pins and different places. 

I know I've been rather horrible at updating (again) but I've been cramming for my history exam which is worth 1/2 my grade...

it's driving me a little insane...

I have a few posts done, but I haven't had the time to get them off my camera/fiddle around with them in lightroom... By the 23rd I should be back on track with everything...

also: the new SH movie is fab: go see it all of you!

<3 Saavik8