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Thursday, September 26, 2019
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Sunday, September 22, 2019
How to Make a Jester Costume
One of the things I love about sewing costumes is the challenge and I try to do that with every jester dress I make. Normally I cut each piece of my sewing pattern out of a different color fabric to create a color block jester costume, I load it up with jingle bells, and I’m good to go with a costume that’s close to jester’s motley.
I need a new jester costume for renaissance festival and historical performances and when I want to dress to empress on Halloween.
This time, I went for the Crazy Person Challenge of sewing a jester costume with a homemade diamond pattern quilted fabric. I made new everything from the skin out:bloomers, hoop skirt, skirt, bodice, and hat. This project took four months to complete.
Which just goes to show you I don’t just play a fool on weekends, it’s more of a 24/7 lifestyle. I’ve never quilted before and after this project I may never quilt again!
I need a new jester costume for renaissance festival and historical performances and when I want to dress to empress on Halloween.
This time, I went for the Crazy Person Challenge of sewing a jester costume with a homemade diamond pattern quilted fabric. I made new everything from the skin out:bloomers, hoop skirt, skirt, bodice, and hat. This project took four months to complete.
Which just goes to show you I don’t just play a fool on weekends, it’s more of a 24/7 lifestyle. I’ve never quilted before and after this project I may never quilt again!
Photos by Jay Robinson and Checkmate Photography
How to Make a Female Renaissance Jester Costume
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9/22/2019 08:30:00 AM
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 495
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9/19/2019 07:03:00 PM
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Monday, September 16, 2019
How to Make an All Weather Elizabethan Jiffy Pop Hat
I need a new jester hat for my renaissance festival character that will still hold its shape when it gets wet in the rain or snow. In the past I have used the traditional buckram (learn what buckram is here) which unfortunately can quickly lose its shape and not really recover it when it gets wet in a thunderstorm. (Disclosure: I am including affiliate links in this post for your convenience.)
I’d like to make something a little different than the traditional jester asses ears I’ve worn in the past. (Asses ears are the name of the jester’s hat with the points and bells on the end.) Since Elizabethan jesters and fools often made fun of their betters and sometimes wore parodies of the style of the nobility to mock them, I decided to make a HUGE British bonnet as an homage to my jester mentor who wore a GIANT flat cap.
But most importantly, I want a hat with a brim to keep the sun out of my eyes.
This style of brimmed hat with a poufy top goes by many names: British toque or bonnet, Spanish toque or bonnet, Italian toque or bonnet, or by the modern nick name The Jiffy Pop Hat because it looks like a Jiffy Pop pan after it has popped (learn more about Jiffy Pop here if you are unfamiliar with this treat that’s fun to eat.)
Elizabethan men and women wore this style of hat. The poofy hat in the sepia photo is made with buckram. The hats in the color photos are made with plastic canvas. As you can see you can't tell from looking what the hat form is made from. the only difference is the plastic canvas is weatherproof and also stands up any and all abuse an actor may put it through.
I’d like to make something a little different than the traditional jester asses ears I’ve worn in the past. (Asses ears are the name of the jester’s hat with the points and bells on the end.) Since Elizabethan jesters and fools often made fun of their betters and sometimes wore parodies of the style of the nobility to mock them, I decided to make a HUGE British bonnet as an homage to my jester mentor who wore a GIANT flat cap.
But most importantly, I want a hat with a brim to keep the sun out of my eyes.
Save this Halloween costume hat tutorial to your Pinterest boards for later! Share it with your friends!
This style of brimmed hat with a poufy top goes by many names: British toque or bonnet, Spanish toque or bonnet, Italian toque or bonnet, or by the modern nick name The Jiffy Pop Hat because it looks like a Jiffy Pop pan after it has popped (learn more about Jiffy Pop here if you are unfamiliar with this treat that’s fun to eat.)
Elizabethan men and women wore this style of hat. The poofy hat in the sepia photo is made with buckram. The hats in the color photos are made with plastic canvas. As you can see you can't tell from looking what the hat form is made from. the only difference is the plastic canvas is weatherproof and also stands up any and all abuse an actor may put it through.
How to Make a Hat with Plastic Canvas Instead of Buckram
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 494
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9/12/2019 07:02:00 PM
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 493
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Friday Favorites Linky Party 492
Wow how summer has flown this year! I can't believe Labor Day is here! Let's kick off the long weekend early!
Time to add your fantastic and creative craft and DIY projects, recipes, and ideas!
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8/28/2019 07:57:00 PM
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Monday, August 19, 2019
How to Make a Pendent Necklace into a Pin Brooch
I was going though my costume jewelry collection to bling out my Husband’s and my Halloween costumes. I have more costume jewelry necklaces than I do pins in my princess treasure chest. Naturally I actually need the opposite.
No worries! It is super quick and easy to turn a necklace charm or pendant into a pin brooch!
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
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Thursday, October 18, 2018
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
Allergy Free Trick or Treat Idea: DIY Ghost Bubbles
Since I have a food intolerance that is so severe I have to pretty much treat it like an allergy, I know first hand how much it stinks to get a bag full of Trick or Treat candy on Halloween that I’m grateful but can’t eat most of it.
Total bummer.
That’s why I display a teal pumpkin to let my Trick or Treaters know that I have food allergy safe treats to hand on out Halloween. We let the kids decide if they want a Treat or Prize. My husband mans the Treat bowl full of candy. I man the Prize bowl with non food treats.
This year’s food allergy safe Trick or Treat Prize is ghost bubbles. Let’s make some!
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Total bummer.
That’s why I display a teal pumpkin to let my Trick or Treaters know that I have food allergy safe treats to hand on out Halloween. We let the kids decide if they want a Treat or Prize. My husband mans the Treat bowl full of candy. I man the Prize bowl with non food treats.
This year’s food allergy safe Trick or Treat Prize is ghost bubbles. Let’s make some!
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
Friday Favorites Linky Party 441
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
How to Make a Statement Ring from Old Earrings and Pendants
I broke the back off one of my favorite earrings. You know the kind of costume jewelry you wear to death because it goes with practically everything you have to wear in your closet? Yeah, that.
I didn’t mourn the loss for long. I need a bunch of big ol’ princess rings for my Halloween and renaissance festival costumes and with a little crafty DIY I made my broken earring into a statement ring.
I didn’t mourn the loss for long. I need a bunch of big ol’ princess rings for my Halloween and renaissance festival costumes and with a little crafty DIY I made my broken earring into a statement ring.
Parading around the grounds with the Queen and court!
How to Make Costume Jewelry Rings the Easy Way!
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
DIY Hand Blown Glass Pumpkins
As a kid, my family and I always watched glass blowing demos at living history museums, Cedar Point, etc. when they crossed our path. I always wanted to learn how to blow glass and put it on my Bucket List but the thing is I’m not sure what I’d do with the thing after I made it. (I am including some affiliate links in this post for your convenience.)
I appreciate glass artistry and would dearly love to buy, use, or display hand blown glass creations but condo living isn’t the most spacious when it comes to displaying doo dads (all of our art collection hangs on walls.) Not to mention, I’m not a fussy doo dad displaying kind of girl except in September when my pumpkin decorations dot the house inside and out.
I like to decorate with pumpkins because you can start displaying them in September for fall harvest, to Halloween and right on through to Thanksgiving at the end of November. So it makes sense that I am obsessed with browsing handcrafted glass pumpkins at glass blowing shops. That’s when it hit me.
Blow a glass pumpkin and display it for Thanksgiving? That I can do.
I decided that Today is SOMEDAY and I’m going to learn how to blow glass!
I appreciate glass artistry and would dearly love to buy, use, or display hand blown glass creations but condo living isn’t the most spacious when it comes to displaying doo dads (all of our art collection hangs on walls.) Not to mention, I’m not a fussy doo dad displaying kind of girl except in September when my pumpkin decorations dot the house inside and out.
I like to decorate with pumpkins because you can start displaying them in September for fall harvest, to Halloween and right on through to Thanksgiving at the end of November. So it makes sense that I am obsessed with browsing handcrafted glass pumpkins at glass blowing shops. That’s when it hit me.
Blow a glass pumpkin and display it for Thanksgiving? That I can do.
I decided that Today is SOMEDAY and I’m going to learn how to blow glass!
Keep reading to learn about the process and to see what I made!
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Monday, October 23, 2017
Elizabethan Noble Woman Costume Part 4 – Makeover Reveal
Last year I made an Elizabethan noble dress to wear while performing at renaissance festivals that was an utter train wreck. It was my first machine embroidery project, the fit of the bodice was off, and in an attempt to glam it up I think my dress looks more like a costume than my goal of period clothing.
No one said anything to me one way or the other about the issues I have with this dress. I would never, ever point out any of these issues on a patron or fellow performer’s clothing Many of these things bug me and me alone and I admit I’m shallow enough to let it affect my performance.
My costuming focus this summer was making my husband a new embroidered Tudor doublet, breeches, and hat. In the interest of time, I remade and made over the items that didn’t work and kept or tweaked the pieces that do.
No one said anything to me one way or the other about the issues I have with this dress. I would never, ever point out any of these issues on a patron or fellow performer’s clothing Many of these things bug me and me alone and I admit I’m shallow enough to let it affect my performance.
Extreme Renaissance Festival Costume Makeover
You could say the Tudors are the originals when it comes to clothing capsule collections because most of their clothing either tied or pinned together so they could mix and match sleeves, foreparts, bodices, stomachers etc.My costuming focus this summer was making my husband a new embroidered Tudor doublet, breeches, and hat. In the interest of time, I remade and made over the items that didn’t work and kept or tweaked the pieces that do.
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