Star Wars costumes

I'm sure every Mum sooner or later has to make a Star Wars costume.

Well, I had to make two in two days.

You know where this is going, right?

Indeed, Yoda himself: a coat, two hands, two feet, a cap with ears, and the cane. 

Here, Mr. Mojcek had to step in as I did not have enough time to make everything. A bit of cardboard, XPS, pur foam, a blue foil, paper mache, acrylic paint ... etc etc ...

The finished clone trooper!

Mission accomplished.

Carnival time

I still owe you the images from this year's carnival costumes. I didn't really have much time to prepare them as I just returned from Portugal (couple of hours, actually!), but I (with the help of Mr. Mojcek!) did manage to make the coat, the belt, the mask and the lightsaber for Kylo Ren. Black shirt, black joggers and black gloves did the rest.

And thank God for silver spray paint! You can turn a blue-orange Nerf into a Man-in-Black-gun in minutes :-) And of course, thanks to C&A (or was it H&M?) where you can get really cheap black suits, white shirts and black ties :-)

Upgrading a notebook

Say you have a kid who loves Star Wars. Say this kid wants to have a Star Wars notebook for school. Say you go to about five stores looking for one but you can't find it. Say you're a mom who is not stopped by this...

So I bought an ordinary notebook.

 
Then I googled for a high resolution Star Wars poster, printed it,

laminated it,

and taped it onto the cover of the notebook with a black insulating tape.

It took me about half an hour to make MiniMojcek Nr.1 very very happy.

Can you believe it?

a) I bought a Revell Star Wars project.

b) I built a model of a Star Wars ship.

c) I photographed a Star Wars ship.

d) All this is actually work related :-)

Luke Skywalker costume

This time of year again when all the mothers in this part of the world go mad sewing and preparing all sorts of costumes. MiniMojcek Nr. 1 was very brief: he wanted to be Luke Skywalker. OK.

First I made off-white cotton canvas trousers. Two pieces sewn together with elastic in the waist:

The top was based on his Judo kimono. I never ever realised that kimono sleeves are drafted in one with the bodice! So, so easy to make.

Brown fleece was used to make the belt and the bag. It is perfectly clear to me that the original belt looks quite different and that the belt buckle is totally wrong, but that was one I had at home. Oh, well. I also made two tapes of a slightly different fabric that I wrapped around his legs.

And of course he needed a light sabre. I found this one in a shop.

Once MiniMojcek Nr.1 had one, MiniMojcek Nr.2 also wanted one - although his costume was something completely different. So I made one: a torch light, a green plastic rod and a bit of insulating tape. Done.

So now I have Luke Skywalker and a parrot fighting on my bed. Oh, well.