I had my roommates suffocate me as best they could with the corset and put on killer (literally) red heels. I painted my nails with all the suits, sprayed my hair red (as I sit here typing, my scalp is still stained red), complimented my crown with a rose, put on my jewelry, and did my make-up complete with jewels around my eyes. On the night of the Halloween party I was ready for this to finally come together. The scepter is a dowel painted red with a glitter heart attached and fringy glitter leaves hot glued around the edges. The fingerless gloves were made of red lace we found at the fabric store. I then glued heart-shaped jewels anywhere I could and slid a black headband through the holes in the lace for placement. But how do we get fabric to do that? We wrapped the lace around a mason jar and sprayed it down with fabric stiffener after painting it silver. My mom found a piece of lace that was pointy at the top and when wrapped around gave the shape of a crown. I couldn’t decide on a shape and attempted to use paper but nothing was good enough. Then, with the tiniest scissors imaginable, cut out all of the little hearts that made my mask. I took textured scrapbook paper and traced the design on the back leaving holes for my eyes. I said “no I’ll pass” and figured out how to make my own. I had seen a similar one on Pinterest selling on Etsy for $39.00. ![]() The accessories were probably my favorite part of this costume particularly my mask. Then we attached red, lacey trim to the bottom. After, I secured the glitter with hairspray. Now I’m not big on dresses so I took a pair of leggings and stenciled all of the suits down the sides in red and white and doused them with glitter before they could dry. It gave it that queenly royal look anyway. But then what you ask? A corset of course! We punched holes in the back and weaved a ribbon through. So, as trial and error type of people we ripped out the seams of most of the cards until the zipper would close which left us with the solution to staple the cards to each other from there making flaps on either side of the costume. Finally we decided to just sew them on row by row only to find that it made the top SIGNIFICANTLY smaller and we could not zipper it. We bought packs and packs of playing cards and debated for a while on the best way to attach them. I had wanted a peplum top so we ruffled the felt around the bottom to create it. At a craft store we found red felt with hearts printed on it on sale and bought them out. Finally, we found a basic red tube top with a giant, red, sequined bow (which was then cut off) for $2. We searched high and low for the base of the costume. So, I decided to include her in the process though there were a few screaming matches and debates on how to make this work. My mom has always made my costumes since I was a child and I was never allowed to just buy one of those costumes in a bag. As a junior in college this is probably trying too hard compared to the multiple cats, mice and Miley Cyrus’s of this year but I like to go the extra mile. I love to make costumes with unconventional items so I wanted to use playing cards. ![]() Last year before I even wore the costume I had worked so hard on the previous year, I said “I’m going to be the Queen of Hearts next year” and then I designed a general sketch of what I wanted it to look like. I’d be lying if I said I don’t already have plans for 2014. ![]() True Life: I plan my Halloween costumes at least a year in advance
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