What Am I Proud Of?

Day 09. Something you’re proud of in the past few days.


Haha um... I'm not sure? I guess within the last week I've been able to keep up on my homework. I ran a mile or so with no problems at all (not that I usually have problems, the thing was it was absolutely freezing outside and I wasn't wearing the proper attire, so surprisingly, I wasn't totally miserable). I've kept my room fairly clean, too. I'm especially proud of my Halloween costume! It was so fun. Here's a last picture for your entertainment:

melanie and me.
she's Poison Ivy.

and for those of you who are curious, here's how I made my masterpiece costume.


I bought a full white unitard from amazon.com (blue ones are pretty hard to come by i guess). I dyed it blue using Rit's royal blue and navy blue (i had to dye it twice cuz the first time i came out kinda purply). After drying and rinsing and all that, I got to work on the paint job. I bought two kinds of fabric paint (the squeezy kind, not the actual paint on kind)--sparkly glitter and navy blue. I knew the sparkly kind would give it a little something, plus it was just pretty. :) anyway, I downloaded a bunch of pictures of Mystique from bing and google so I could have some kind of template as to what I was doing. I pretty much made it up as I went though because I had no idea what I was doing. I started with the legs and worked my way up though, trying to make sense of all the scales and whatever on her crazy blue body. Then I did the midsection. Then the arms. Then the whole backside. The fabric paint alone took me about 3 days on and off (drying and what not). It was pretty tedious. But it looks pretty dope! Haha. Then, on the actual dress-up day (in which I won first place for best costume at the ward party! dang straight!), I used like...tempura paint and acrylic paint mixed (I would choose something different though if I could do it again) and painted it on the rest of my body that was still showing after the unitard. I painted my face too. I spray painted my hair orange with that temporary hair spray (after putting it into a bun and throwing tons of gel into it to give it that nasty greasy look she has). I also had purchased some crazzzzy yellow cat eye contacts. So legit. And so scary. These were probably the hardest to come by because they're so expensive. I bought mine from the UK for only 17 pounds! Ha. Which isn't that bad actually. I can wear them whenever I want, too! Don't worry though, I won't. They're creepy. Umm so yeah. After my skin was painted, and my hair was in place, and my contacts were in, I painted parts of my skin (face especially) with the remainder of fabric paint I had (since she has scales on her face too). I threw on some navy blue flips flops and called it good! :) Even though I only got to show it off for one night, it was so much fun and totalllly worth all the work!