Just An Average Day

Just An Average Day

My dear friend Olivia is an aspiring cosplayer, you can find her at Chubear Cosplay.  From time to time she likes to put together fantasy themed looks to share with her fans. I am always willing to jump on board because honestly, who doesn't like playing dress up??

Here is a glimpse into an average day for us...Just oh, you know, transform your face into that of an elf, head out into the cold with a Lord of The Rings prop and take some fun photos.

This look mainly happened because Olivia was eager to try out her new elf ears..haha! Girls, and their toys.

The sword is a replica of Arwen's sword from Lord of The Rings, The bottom of her costume is just two of my skirts layered and tucked in strategic places, all the jewelry is from my own collection. I hoard gypsy/fantasy style jewelry for all those costuming events I never make it to :( Olivia found the corset cheap  on Ebay.

Olivia doesn't naturally have a very angular face so there was a lot of contouring done to give her a elf look. I personally think she did an amazing job! She is wearing yellow circle lenses to enlarge her irises and change their color. For the makeup she used mostly SugarPill cosmetics.

The site of our "shoot" was my backyard, which happens to be a world of fantasy all it's own... *sigh* How I miss it.

Now, I'm no photography so I apologize for the not entirely professional photos but, the shoot was fun and I think we captured some very cool scenes and poses. As always Olivia is stunning.

Thank you to the ever so creative and talented Chubear for allowing me to be apart of your creations. It is always an adventure.

Please take time to visit her on Facebook and Instagram and follow along :)

Have an amazing weekend!

♥

Samantha

Princess Gown

A Gift for my Lovely Little Lady

We recently celebrated my daughter's birthday and one of her gifts happened to be a lovely handmade Princess Gown from her Mommy....* applause* 

The dress I put together looks very elegant but was in fact a very simple design. I practically put it together in an evening. I suppose it does help that the skirt was already in tack.

I used a vintage nightie for the skirt (sorry grammy) so that took a good amount of work out of the process.

I combined the nightie skirt with a dress tutorial purchased from Etsy last summer.

The Melody Dress Pattern

Find this pattern along with other enchanting dress designs at

Sew Sweet Patterns

The original dress pattern does not have the over skirt so I designed my own :) I cut four half circles the width from middle front to middle back plus eight inches for gather. I am not very technical so as far as length I really just eyeball a lot of things but I suppose you could measure the desired length. 

I gave the bodice a slight sweat heart neckline and added ribbon "boning".There is a ribbon rose adorning the front. The rose was really to hide the gap after sewing the overskirt and underskirt to the bodice. Just like the bows at the bottom were added to hide the fact that I accidentally sewed some of the skirt to low in the front :P

The purple buttons were a last minute thing....I had to add them at the request of little sister ♥

The back has a button closure and a ribbon bow to hide the gap :) 

I think overall it was a great success. Yay! One for the Mommy team!

With a pretty up do she looks like the most enchanting princess ♥

Oh...She is such a natural.

I would like to let them live in a fairytale for as long as possible.

Little sister looking on with admiration...

And of course, when we got back inside my youngest needed to put on her fairytale dress. Which is the original  Melody Dress Pattern.

The only problem I see, I might want to just make too many of these adorable dresses!!

Happy Sewing

♥

Samantha