Ellow. My New Year's Eve costume is not going well. :(
I guess the Almighty Bloke Upstairs is making me have crushing mind-blocks when I'm making it, seeing as it's an Angels & Fairies party and I'm going as the Angel of The North just to be irritatingly non-religious. It'll probably annoy/perplex my very good friends (one of whom I've known since we were six), but if I've spent hours on it and it turns out ok to my mind, I reckon that gives me the right to be able to wear it. :)

However, structural problems beset me from the start. I'm working with some thin card, the box my mandolin came in (my mando's probably gonna get wrapped up in a duvet & tucked out of the way 'till I find a case for it, bless it), brown poster paint, string, a staple gun, brown tape, some binding combs that I thought would be good for the structural stuff on it and me in a brown long sleeved t-shirt, brown flippy skirt, brown tights, brown wedgey shoes. So far, so Blue Peter.

How can I go wrong?!

Apparently, there are many ways in which I can. Things fell apart, things were too tight on me and my brother suggested, with a grin, that I "clearly hadn't thought things through properly". Grrr.
However, now I think I'm making headway. I've got a mask, wings and a headdress in the works (that looks horribly like a Jamiroquai pisstake) and I think that'll suffice quite well as long as people get the wings and go "a-ha!!"

Anyway, imma get back to it. Wish me luck.