Star Wars Christmas Tree Skirt.
Since we can’t put Christmas presents under our tree due to a feisty cat named Jameson who likes tearing into wrapping paper, we needed an alternative to cover a bulky tree stand. Luckily I had an extra circle skirt laying around that matched our purple ornaments. It wasn’t getting any use, so I decided to refashion my old Moonglow skirt from Halloween. What is a tree skirt but a skirt for a tree?
Ninja Turtle Icebox Cookies.
I like baking, but am not the most adept baker. For one, I often do not pay enough attention to directions, nor am I ever able to prepare things in the prescribed amount of time. Instead I work through a process of trial, error, and problem solving skills. Case in point: I started off this recipe as an attempt to make penguin cookies.
Adapted from Diamonds for Dessert’s recipe for Penguin Icebox Cookies:
Vanilla Icebox Cookie Dough:
2 and 1/4 cups plus 5 tablespoons of flour
16 tablespoons/2 sticks of butter, softened
3/4 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of powdered sugar
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
Ninja Turtle Additions:
decorating gel (black, purple, orange, red, and blue)
neon food coloring (green and blue)
turtle power
Makes 4 dozen cookies; 16 by the time you feed the wonky looking ones to the dog, throw out the ones you broke or under cooked, and get rid of the ones you used sharpie on just to see how it looks.
Undead Prom Queen for Halloween 2011.
This costume was thrown together in about an hour and a half (makeup and covering myself in blood included). I wanted an excuse to wear my awesome blue/purple wig so my first thought was to be Undead Katy Perry, but then I realised that the Katy Perry-esque dress I had chosen was more of a prom dress, and this costume was born!
Zubat from “Pokemon” for New York Comic Con 2011.
Initially I had only planned to be Jean Grey for NYCC, but when I was asked to dress up as a Pokemon with some friends I was 1. excited and 2. didn’t know anything about making a Pokemon costume. So I looked around the Pokedex and found the perfect Pokemon for me: Zubat! Not only did I have blue and purple fabric and a wig left over from my Moonglow costume, but I also LOVE bats.
Jean Grey from New X-Men for New York Comic Con 2011.
I have always been a HUGE Jean Grey fan, mostly because she’s a kick-ass telepath, has awesome red hair, and has one of my favourite relationships in literary history with the one, the only, Wolverine. For this reason, I knew I wanted to be Jean Grey for my very first Comic Con, preferably one that was do-able and didn’t require wearing too much spandex. Thankfully, by combining two versions of her New X-Men outfit, I was able to successfully do it.
Slytherin Hipster Wizard for LeakyCon 2011.
This year, at our second Harry Potter convention, LeakyCon 2011, we were much better prepared (i.e. we had costumes). Our first group costume idea (a Harry Potter Roller-derby Team) did not work out because surprise, surprise, hotels frown upon you wearing roller skates inside. So my days as Lord Rolldemort out the window, Dippy came up with a cheaper solution: Hipster Wizards.
Done in 2011 by Brian at Immortal Ink.
I decided that if I’m going to keep dressing up as a Slytherin at Harry Potter conventions I was going to need a tattoo to match. Plus it just looks damn awesome if you ask me. ^^ Momma might not have raised a Slytherin, but I damn sure turned into one. Slytherin for life!
