Lunar Fairy: Moon Circlet

I feel like every fairy should have a cute headpiece.  I’d only made a circlet one other time, a very simple leaf circlet for my first photoshoot as a Greek goddess, when I first got into cosplay.  Jewelry making isn’t something that I’ve done a lot of, I have a lot to learn.  When I started on this project in 2015, I spent hours and hours on Pinterest looking for inspiration and different headpieces so that I could figure out what kind of style I was going for.  It was kind of overwhelming, because there is a LOT!!  The only thing I was sure of, was that I wanted a crescent moon to be on my forehead.  After starting to get some ideas, I then spent hours on ebay, and I ordered a bunch of stuff that I thought was pretty, and I’d figure out what I wanted to do once it got here.  When I picked this project back up last year, I went ham on buying beads and pearls and rhinestones, and other odds and ends.

I found that once I really got started, I was able to envision as I went along, what I wanted.  And I’m really proud of the end result.  I finished it up yesterday, and I seriously can’t wait to wear this beauty!

When I first started this in 2015

Finished!

The full circlet, finished!

This was honestly a lot of fun to make, and I’m SO happy with the result.  Let’s get close-up and I’ll talk a little bit about the details.

The large filigrees were square-shaped when I first got them.  All of the filigrees are the same, but I modified them.  The metal was thin enough to cut, so i took wire cutters and cut all of the corners off of 4 of the filigrees, and then left two of the corners on the one I wanted to use for the center (pictured above).  I ordered some cameo settings and glued on the rhinestones.  The small rhinestones are Swaorvski Elements, and the large ones came from a site called Jan’s Jewels.  I had ordered some other stones from ebay, but they were taking a while, and I started to worry that they’d gotten lost, so I ordered these.  The other rhinestones finally showed up not long after I got the ones from Jan’s, so I compared them to see which ones I wanted to end up using.  I went with the ones from Jan’s as I felt they had more of the look I wanted coupled with the Swarovskis.  Then I glued the cameos to the filigrees.

The crescent moon at the front of the circlet also has Swarovskis glued to it.

The wig in these photos is also the one that I bought to wear for this costume.  I’m currently trying to figure out how I’ll end up styling it, and I’ll talk about it in a future post. 😀  Thanks for reading, I’ll see you next time! ❤

Lunar Fairy: Moondust Wings

Welcome to my first entry!  For the last few weeks, I’ve been leisurely working on a set of wings for my first original cosplay, a lunar fairy.  I have a name for her, Yvana, and I’ve been trying to give her a little backstory, too.  I think that once I’ve got everything done and can look at it all, I might be inspired to come up with something. 🙂  I’ve always had a fascination with the moon and the stars, space, and wings, and flying.  Maybe because I’m a Gemini and it’s an air sign, I don’t know, lol.  One of my favorite designers to follow is Firefly Path, seeing their beautiful creations really had me itching to come up with a fairy of my own to make a costume for, so I did and I came up with a Lunar/Moon fairy.

I have another blog on Blogger where I started talking about this costume, you can take a look at it to see some of the other work I’ve been putting into this costume and others, here.  I wanted to give WordPress a try after seeing how nice my friend Moonkitty’s blog looked and thinking I might want to give mine a face lift. If you want to follow her adventures, you can find her right here.   She’s seriously awesome!  Anyway, for the past two weeks I really got to work on these wings, and they are pretty much done, save a couple of things I need to add to them.  I have a WIP album of photos as well as a short video of their epic sparkly-ness on my Facebook page.

And without further adieu, here they are!

I had a lot of fun making these and I learned a lot, too!  The wings are made of iridescent cellophane and organza, which I have never used  a fabric in making wings before.  I had some help from my friend Tj with covering the first half of the wings, as I needed them to be as smooth as possible.  Thanks to him I’ve got a more efficient way to do this stage in the future.  In certain light, the green in the cellophane really comes out, and they almost look like the Aurora Borealis.  I designed these myself, and having them go from concept to reality is honestly really rewarding. ^.^  They are hand painted, glittered, and bedazzled.  My craft room STILL smells like E6000, and I have no doubt that I’ve been tracking glitter all over the house. 😛

Depending on how you look at the wings, they may be falling stars, or shooting stars.  I was envisioning the infinite number of stars in space, and trails of stardust left behind them as they travel through space.  Though they are pictured here stuck down the back of a corset, I intend to add straps.  I usually wear them down the back of a corset but the costume I’m doing will call for straps this time around.  The main frame (ha ha) is made of 12 gauge wire.  I usually use 9, but because of the scalloping, I needed something easier to manipulate.  Overall, I’m extremely happy to have these (mostly) done, and I can’t wait to have the entire costume completed and do a shoot!!  Now it’s on to the fun task of figuring out where on Earth I’m going to put them until then. XD  Until next time! ❤