Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket Raccoon Toddler Costume

Since I'm getting kiddo's costume all spruced up for Comic Con this year, I realized I forgot to post his Rocket Halloween costume from this past year!
This past year for Halloween (and now for Comic Con) I made my son a Rocket Raccoon costume. I was Gamora along with him (and my husband Starlord)- but I'll post shots of those costumes once we have them fixed up for Comic Con, since we rushed our costumes for Halloween. (I spent most of my time making kiddo's costume).

He LOVED wearing the jumpsuit and adored the fur, that he wouldn't let me take off the jumpsuit when I was cutting the fur and patches for the knees.

Here's some of the rest of the costume DIY:

 I found these cheap slippers from Wish. I painted them with acrylics (which honestly isn't the greatest idea- so I tried to brush them constantly to make sure the paint didn't get too hard).

 The ears- I tried to take a gray raccoon ears, and the paint just looked like bleh, so I ended up gluing some of the leftover fur and bulked up the ears. I actually really like how the turned out.

The ears also came with the raccoon tail, but since Rocket is brown, I painted the stripes.

  Like the slippers, I had to brush the painted spots so it wouldn't get so chunky/stiff.

The jumpsuit I got is actually a snow suit I got at Goodwill.

His backpack thing (from Guardians V2) is actually a summer water gun tag vest, which I covered with faux leather straps, and middle part- the blue part is actually part of a kids snack/sippy cup cut in half and hot glued. (the vest I got at 5 Below).

His mega gun is a water gun I painted. I know it isn't exact, but it still looks giant when my son holds it. lol.

 (the full outfit- I added the patches on the knees- with the faux leather and hot glue).

 We put a long sleeve brown shirt and a blue tank overtop to complete the outfit.

(My son insisted I wear the ears after I finished them.)

He wore the costume to both a Halloween Party and trick or Treating (his face makeup was much better for Trick or Treating). He was so tuckered out Halloween, that he actually fell asleep in his costume before we could go trick or treating, so we let him nap for a hair before waking him up to go trick or treating (which is probably why many of his photos he is cranky looking- woke up from a nap too early both times wearing it. figures).

(cranky Rocket) 

 Toddler is not a fan of face makeup.

Sleepy Rocket and a tired Gamora.

I attached his tail to his utility belt (which I actually made for his Cric costume last year, but it actually worked for this costume too!) 

Knees and feet (with ankle fur) 

 Passed out Rocket before we could go Trick or Treating.

 Daddy encouraging him to go Trick or Treating down our block.

 Sleepy cranky Rocket.

This is the Volume 2 Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket Raccoon, which sadly doesn't have nearly as much to go from, hence why I ended up making mine (most of the Rocket costumes were either too small or were ment for big kids). I hope if you decide to make a Rocket for your kiddo (or yourself) you don't have as much fur floating around the house as we did. haha.


Do you like Guardians of the Galaxy? Who's your fav. character?
-M

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Channeling my inner Princess: DIY Aurora costume

So a few weeks ago a friend asked if I could help her out and draw upon my theater skills, by dressing up as a storybook character and read my tale to some kiddos at the local Barnes & Noble she works at for their "Once Upon a Time" event. I racked my brain as to what character I'd be, since the last time I helped her out, I dressed up as Wendy from 'Peter Pan' when a friend dressed as Peter Pan herself (himself). Then I remembered my famous pink poofy prom dress (I swear, I've worn it, or someone else has worn it, about a dozen times, mostly playing as Glinda from the Wizard of Oz). "What storybook characters wear a pink dress other than Glinda?" I thought to myself. I then remembered one of my favorite Disney princesses growing up, Aurora (aka. Sleeping Beauty for those that don't remember her real name), had a pink/blue (everchanging) dress. So I set out on a quest to make an Aurora outfit from my old pink prom dress.

My DIY Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Costume

My final costume for Aurora, not 100% true to the movie/books, but close enough. Photo by Candace Park

 To my luck, it wasn't too hard- some white for the top, a yellow/gold crown and necklace and pink sleeves- and I'm set. I made the crown/necklace from fun foam and a dollar store crown:

The white to the top was just a white tulle thing I had from our wedding (we tied them around the bridal party's chairs) and just tied in a loose knot across my shoulders, after failing miserably at attaching it to the dress itself and failing at making a non-strapless dress look strapless. Luckily the necklace was big enough to partially hide the fact that my dress was high necked. I made the gloves from an old pair of pink dance tights- though they kept falling down because they were ment for legs, not my arms. haha

Photo by Candace Park

Also to my luck, Disney actually updated Aurora's dress to have flowers on it, so my dress actually looked a little closer to it.

Old Aurora:

New Aurora:

Me Aurora:

It was so fun to dress up as a pretty princess and read to the kiddos. I joined fellow storybook characters: Belle (from Beauty & the Beast), Snow White, Anna (Frozen), Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Little Red Riding Hood and the Bad Wolf, and the Mad Hatter. Never in my life have I been so happy to make small children smile, as I felt like those Disney characters at Disneyworld with all the photos I had to take. I also got a GREAT workout by squatting/kneeling in the poofy dress to take hundreds of photos with little shorties.

Reading to the kiddos the story of Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Candace Park

All in all, it was a great time, and my fellow princesses/storybook characters also seemed to enjoy themselves (I'd share photos of their costumes too, but I don't want to share pics of people without their approval). We ended up wandering around the mall in costume, and took more shots with others in the mall. After all of that, we decided to start a Princesses In Real Life facebook page/instagram, etc. to share our travels as princesses doing real life things (shopping, having lunch, etc.)

Princesses got Swag, especially in Claires!

  I'm looking forward to the next event, planned in May, where more fellow princesses will be joining me. I hope to paint my crown and necklace to look more chrome by then. ;)

Driving was interesting too, while in this getup. lol

 I hope everyone has a great Friday! Have a magical day!
-M

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