When life gives you dinosaur bone printed sheets and orange Ikea duvet covers, you make a witchy, wench-y take on 18th Century Pastoral Fashion!
19th Century , Accessories , Halloween , Hat , hatmaking , millinery , Regency
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A Regency Riding Hat
For a little touch of the funébre for this Halloween season, I made myself a sombre woman’s regency riding hat. In early October I scored a “Halloween bowler hat” at a local party store. It was on “pre-season pre-clearance sale” (Do they just make these things up now?!) and I […]
American Girl doll , Blog , doll costumes , Halloween , Playing Dress Up , toys
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Elmoy, American Girl Doll Bounty Hunter
This year’s American Girl Doll Halloween costume is a little different. Meet Elmoy, the American Girl Doll Bounty hunter, scourge of Giant Furry Terrors everywhere!
19th Century , Halloween , jewellery , Regency
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Happy Halloween
No Halloween shall be complete without my favorite antique October accessory – here’s to Sofia and her laudanum. Happy Halloween!
Halloween , stays
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It’s October.
‘Tis the season for big hair, FX makeup and tattered historical underpinnings…
19th Century , American Girl doll , doll costumes , doll hat , Halloween
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An 1860s Halloween Ensemble for an American Girl Doll
After sewing up a pair of Zombie Halloween Monkeys, I turned to dressmaking and made an 1860s Halloween Ensemble for my American Girl Doll!
Halloween , toys
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Zombie Halloween Monkeys: Tutankhamonkey and Monktenkahmum
Meet Tutankhamonkey and Monktenkahmum. These two zombie monkeys lurched their way into the house around about Halloween and decided to stay.
Halloween , Playing Dress Up , total chaos
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Alice of Wonderland, Despoiler of Halloweens and Scourge of Cobwebs Everywhere
Meet Alice of Wonderland, Cheshire Cat Hunter, her hoopskirt the despoiler of Halloweens and the Scourge of Cobwebs Everywhere!
Halloween
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Happy Halloween!
Prepare a too-hot-sauce and mustard powder dip for a Halloween party! People love the novelty of swiping something zesty off of a skull.
19th Century , American Girl doll , doll costumes , doll hat , Halloween , millinery
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An 1860s Doll Hat: The Cracktastic Hat Bounces BACK
My cracktastic little halloween-y 1860s doll hat, last seen looking like something out of a montage of bad 80s bridesmaids dresses, is BACK.