Here I am, because I promised you a post on my finds and I wanted to share! Okay, so I basically had to walk around JoAnns for an hour waiting for my mother to be done with her shift. I suppose it was the perfect opportunity for me to just look at what they had left and think. And I got quite the haul. I did also make some purchases from Meijer because as I mentioned before our JoAnns is moving locations and they sell everything before they move so they don't have to move it. If only moving for us would have been that easy over the summer...
Anywhos, here is what I found! Basically I looked back at Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon's outfits and realized they do indeed have stars somewhere, so I found these! It has hundreds of stars in different colors (mostly the tiny gold ones are what I need). I had a different pack of stars that were metal, but too big and I found some awesome mirrored stars you can glue to things, but they didn't have enough of the tiny ones. I went with these and figured let's go!
For the jewels on Sailor Moon's compact, and in their tiaras I needed some rhinestones. I wasn't sure where I would find them, I suppose I could have gone to Michaels, but eh. I found these and couldn't be more happy. I bought the colored pack and then I suppose it's crystal or silver. They are perfect though!
Now, I completely forgot about their hair accessories until I was looking at people's cosplays online. And I realized they have the wing clips in their hair. I smacked myself on the forehead in frustration, but then I either watched a video on YouTube or found a tutorial on DeviantArt I can't remember, where the costume maker used big beads and cardboard. I found these beads and decided to maybe use foam, I can glue some cheap hair clips on them with hot glue and presto!
So for a bit I wondered what I would do with the striping on the collars. I knew the white fabric I had would fray and bias tape isn't that small (at least from the research I did), my mom mentioned how they had some ribbon left at the store and I might find some. And I did! It's 1/8 inch wide ribbon. It's so tiny and perfect! I can't wait to add it on!
Next I thought I about how I would need gold paint for the tiara and brooch. I knew I would be using foam for the base of each. I found some pretty gold point to use and after some research I learned paint takes a long time to dry on foam, so yep. Although I knew I was in the long run with this project.
This is a find while I was walking around JoAnns wasting time, and literally my mind started turning. I found 3mm and 6mm thick foam. Most regular foam packs come with 2mm thick, so I was excited they had these two pieces left and in white. My mom said it was that it was quick the find since most of their aisles are half or completely empty now.
As for the sewing parts of the project, I made the collars! I don't know if I showed them to you at all yet, but here they are! On the right is Sailor Moon's and on the left is Sailor Chibi Moon's (it is pink, but lighting). I used someone else's pattern and scaled it way down and altered it a bit. But I like how they turned out, and once I get some more white thread (need more white thread!) I can add on the stripes.
So yep, other than that today we took down our Christmas decorations so our house is kind of bare now. I think my dog likes it when we put the tree away because one year it fell on him and I think he has flashbacks.
Now for some reason I am feeling inspired so I will either start working on the brooch or make a shelf with some cardboard
MyFroggyStuff style!
Have a wonderday!
