...and the Tooth Fairy? Jack Frost? Easter Bunny? Santa? Sandman? Boogyman?
I spent the week leading up to the Con working at Starbucks in the mornings on Baby Tooth, my headdress, and other smaller projects until Tim got off work and I moved over to his house where Mom (Michelle) helped me out with my Toothiana costume. She was completely wonderful and took over gluing the feathers to the dress. I had planned on making the front of the dress shorter than the back and slitting the back several times to help with the whole tail feather look but ended up scrapping that and I don't think the costume suffered as a result. Before I took the base dress over I used fabric spray paint to create a gradient on the yellow dress from yellow to green to blue.
We constructed a harness out of nylon strips with two buckles, several layers of cardboard, and a piece of foam to keep the whole thing from hurting my back. I glued some bolts that the wings would hang from and added the nuts on to keep the wings attached. There were a few flaws in this process...it proved too difficult/time consuming to move the wings onto the second bolt which would hold them in the "open" position. I had originally only wanted them open for photos but instead kept them down for the entire Con. They still looked awesome in my personal opinion but I also failed to realize that while walking the wings would shift and the nuts would come loose so I lost wings towards the end of the day. Thankfully it's obvious to everyone when they fall and having 6 total meant that when I lost one pair I still looked alright with the 4 I had left. I need to seriously rework this before I wear the costume again.
| For Baby Tooth I started by crocheting her body, arms, & legs out of a blue/purple yarn I had. It took two attempts to get the sizing right cause she's supposed to fit in Jack Frost's hand and I made her too big and square at first. I bought some copper wire from the craft store and gave her the outline of wings. I attempted to use a green, a blue, and a purple wire to doing the |