{"id":289,"date":"2008-10-31T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=289"},"modified":"2008-10-31T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T05:27:12","slug":"more-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"More costumes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>:
\nI entered a costume contest<\/strong> online. PLEASE click on the link and vote for us! Thanks!!
\nhttp:\/\/www.sugarloot.com\/entry\/953760721
\n<\/a>Please also pass on the link. The more the merrier! We need all the votes we can get. Voting ends November 4th. THANKS!!<\/p>\n

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Well, the costumes are finished. Or at least mostly finished. Dave and I were up really late last night and I was still sewing at 3:30 this afternoon… BUT, they are done and we wore them.Things didn’t turn out as perfectly in some areas as I’d like, but I was running out of time. There are a few things I’d like to change\/fix before next year. But, all in all, I am pretty pleased with the results. I’ll report on the events of Halloween day soon, but in the meantime here is the final costume progress report!<\/p>\n

First, The finished costumes:<\/strong>
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And the process…<\/p>\n

Mike… <\/strong><\/p>\n

Trying things on. We decided to make the visible location be just under the hat. We installed a grill there to mask my face.
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Painting the body green.
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Yup, its green.
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Hands…
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Coating foam cutouts of teeth, lips, and eyebrows with a roofing sealant (to seal the pours and prevent the paint from absorbing into the foam). The main portion of the body was also cover with this prior to painting.
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The eyeball. Phase I.
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Hat and eyeball painted.
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Lips and eyelids attached and painted. Negative space in the mouth painted black.
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\nThe feet…
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Trying things on again. Imagine green tights, arms, feet, and hands.
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Nylon head. I used black pantyhose to hold my hair back so it didn’t poke out the top all over.
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Sulley… <\/strong><\/p>\n

Revisiting the eyes and teeth. I repainted the eyes, they just didn’t look right. And rounded and yellowed the teeth, just a bit.
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Using scrap foam to build up shoulder pads. We were out of big pieces.
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Shoulder pads with the head. Getting there…
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Cutting the legs. It was SCARY to cut this fur… I had to order online from a place in San Francisco at $25\/yard. So its expensive, and I can’t replace it locally. Oh, and no pattern. Very intimidating.
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Back panels sewn together, adding spikes and the tail.
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Trying things on. Legs sewn in, sides still need stitching…
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Halloween morning… Really, REALLY early.
\n12:55 a.m. : Sewing up the shoulders and adding the neck hole.
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1:12 a.m. : Trying it on with the shoulder pads.
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We stayed up until 3:00 a.m. And then I got up at 7:00 to finish the arms.
\nThis was taken at 8:20 a.m. this morning when Bridget woke up.
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UPDATE: I entered a costume contest online. PLEASE click on the link and vote for us! Thanks!! http:\/\/www.sugarloot.com\/entry\/953760721 Please also pass on the link. The more the merrier! We need all the votes we can get. Voting ends November 4th. THANKS!! Well, the costumes are finished. Or at least mostly finished. Dave and I were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,7,8,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-bridget","category-dave","category-domestic","category-family-life","category-random","category-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}