Re: ** New Members: Please Introduce Yourselves Here! **
Hello, fellow costumers and makers!
I've been lurking around here on and off for a few years, and finally bit the bullet and joined. Quite frankly, I had intended to join for the the Halloween contest, but due to circumstances beyond my control, the costume didn't get finished in time. But that's OK, because it means I have more time to build a bigger better Angel. (I'll be posting the build so far in a few days, as I finally get the pics I've taken so far cropped and uploaded).
My background: I've been fascinated by costuming since early childhood. A seamstress mother meant I got a custom made costume every year, and I remember making a hat for a witch and wings for an angel costume at age 5 and 6.
I spent 15 years being a horror improv actor and SPFX makeup artist at Bloodview Haunted House, a charity haunt in Ohio. I worked in the makeup department for 12 of those years, learning first from Dick Smith's Monster Makeup Book and eventually from SPFX artists that would go on to work in Hollywood and local movie SPFX departments.
During those years, I collected closets full of costuming. We also worked summers at a local Ren Faire - more costuming. Then there were the props, weapons and other assorted junk. Add in a terrible crafting addiction - I love to make stuff from junk, like tabletop gaming dioramas and hats.
I'm disabled now, so no more running around scaring people; now, I use my makeup and costuming skills elsewhere, like doing trauma makeup for
first-responders preparedness drills and
zombie walks.
Current projects:
Doctor Who stuff, mainly. I'm mostly done with a Weeping Angel, inspired by penwiper's excellent costume, and trying to put together a River Song thing - the only thing I'm got made is the hair. Also planned are a few foam latex pieces - a face, neck and chest piece for the Angel, and an expansion to an existing snake face piece to make a Siluruan.
I'm also interested in workarounds, replacements, and creative uses of other junk. The McGyvering of household detritus into screen-accurate or imaginative alt costumes that goes on here is amazing and inspiring.
If you know anything about steampunk message me 
