Dryad

Faerieworlds is coming up in another week and this year I've been rather prolific with my costuming. 


I had some stretch velvet remnants left after making a cloak and, after raking my brain about what I should do with them, I decided they worked well on the bias and set about constructing a rather abstract piece. 

Some flowers and leather cut oak leaves later and I had what I decided should be a dryad costume. 

Naturally, since this was the simplest/ easiest dress I've constructed in a long while, I want satisfied until I'd beaded the hell out of it. And instead of lining the inside of the open sleeve (which I did initially do and hated) I applied swirls of gold paint and kept the oak leaf motif going.

It just needed a suitable head piece.  


Suitable antlers are harder to locate than they have any reason to be, and it turns out that smaller is better.


Large antlers are not only hazardous to one's surroundings, but those suckers are heavy. I'd initially though these were on the small side but it turns out that they're about perfect. 

Also, when you attack antlers with a dremel they make your house smell like you set a wookie on fire.  


I've got some faun ears that should be arriving shortly to hopefully finish off the dryad/faun effect.