Making a Jellyfish costume How To

So as I've told in my previous post,hubby wanted to be a Jellyfish for Purim...
After finishing all my costume orders I found myself making a giant Jelly at 3 AM....thus,the a bit dark photos :)
From what I know,this is the only "making a jellyfish costume " photo tutorial on the web...
I'll post the photos I took with quick notes only,as the written instructions you can get from here 
I made slight changes,but all in all,the construction is very similar
So here it is

Supplies needed :
 * Top hat (in original post  Sombrero was used! )

In Israel,Sombrero is  not a common hat,so I used a Top hat I had laying around instead -one  I made a year ago for another hubby's costume )

 * Foam Board
 * Bubble Wrap
 *Gift wrap stuffing(the shiny kind to reflect light)
* Organza
(In original post Netted Laundry Bag was used- again,no such thing here in Israel,so I wrapped the whole thing in organza fabric)
Gathered tulle fabric  ( in original post Shower Poofs were used to decorate the circumference of the jellyfish's head)
-Also, instead of the ribbons in original post, I used the same organza fabric-just shaped the hanging fabric to look like the "legs"
   * Battery Powered LED Lights (You have to use LED because the regular lights get too hot and will melt your costume!)
* Batteries
 * Glow Sticks
 * Hot Glue / Glue sticks
 * Clear Packing Tape
 * Scissors
 * Exacto Knife

Lets begin

Cut the foam board with your exacto knife to a perfect circle

in the middle,cut a circumference of the base of your  hat and insert the hat in

Pell of the glossy paper (the checkered one is the sticky side that should be upwards ) to reveal the sticky side of your foam board

Make a very long tube out of your bubble wrap

Glue the bubble wrap tube to the sticky side of the foam board creating  an ice cream swirl type shape

Stuff the gift bag stuffing in all the cracks and add your LED lights as well

Cover it all with a big piece of bubble wrap- bubbles facing the swirl and the smooth side up

Cover in all with the organza fabric

Shape the legs of the jellyfish

Looking GOOOOOD :D

Add some gathered tulle all around

And TA DA -went to sleep at 5AM

A day after I added some additional legs made of shredded bubble wrap  and glued the glow sticks in

 To finish it all,I made a HUGE 6 gore tulle poncho and ADORED the result :)

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Israeli Halloween and PettiBear's costumes

Our Israeli Halloween just passed and finally I have the time for some blogging :)
Here in Israel we call the big dress up day- Purim .
Purim doesn't resemble Halloween at all actually- no spooky home decor, no witches or brooms ,no bats , no pumpkins either...Non of the traditional orange and black  colour schemes as well...
Instead we have "Oznei Ha-Man" cookies, favors giving and LOTS of happy dressed up kids :)

Each year I make costumes for Sierra and Sheluvi  (how can I not :D ) and for a few lucky neighbors's kids...
This year Sierra was a Bunny Rabbit in a pink Butterfly Field and Sheluvi was a Geisha

The Bunny coat was made of some leftover fabric I had  left  from a similar adult hoodie I made for one of my best customers

Pink Butterfly field was under the bunny's coat :D

It was so hot this Purim,that I was afraid Sierra will get to hot in her bunny coat,so I decided to sew a cute dress to go underneath as well .

 I had a lovely pink cotton with  little sparkly dots and butterflies print all over laying around for YEARS ...Never  could have find a better use for it than this

 I made the tulle skirt  from a table skirt I previously done for Sierra's Birthday bash -just cut it shorter and put an elastic to the waistline  (upcycling at it's best lol )

Then I sewed some 3D  pink butterflies (left from her birthday as well ) on top of the butterfly print of the fabric  and TA DA -

one HAPPY kid

Sheluvi refused to dress up and the only thing I could do is dress her  up in a kimono I had make years ago for Sierra-I told her it's a dress ,and she went with me :)

The original costume was suppose to be a Nesting Doll coat, (which turned out STUNNING by the way )
but due to the extra hot weather and the fact that the Matroshka coat was made of pure wool, I let it be -she will have the chance to wear it when the days get chiller again (if they will :D ) and I'll get the chance to blog about the coat in another date

My Hubby wanted to dress up as well this year (my precious baby ) ,and decided to be a jellyfish ...
I'll post a full How To in the next post-stay tuned :)


And to finish in a humorous note, here is Me in the adult Bunny hoodie

 

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