Easy DIY Maleficent Horns

I mentioned back in May when I did my Maleficent monthly selfie that I would post the DIY for the horns I made. Well, three months later I'm finally living up to my word. These are super easy and you don't need much to get started.

Tip: When you're wrapping the tape around the head band be sure to keep putting on your head to make sure you're staying true to the size of your own head. I made my too small which wasn't a big deal because I knew I would only be using it for the picture but it wouldn't have stayed in place if it had been for a costume. 

Disclaimer: These are crappy iPhone photos but I feel that when I actually take the time to remember to document a process my iPhone is just the easiest to use. 

floral wire. black duct or duck tape. pliers. headband. scissors. black electrical tape. circle piece of cardboard

I took the circle piece of cardboard from the duct tape I bought and cut a slit up one side to the middle..
Pull the edges of the slit in towards each other until it starts to form a partial cone. You just want it to be curved enough to cup your melon. Tape it together.
Next, tape it to your head band. I had to pull the cupcake off of mine that I bought for $1.

Next I took some wire and bent it into the desired length of the horns and then wrapped it around a couple times to give each "horn" some girth (lol, girth)
Next, tape those under the cardboard circle on each side. 

Bend the wire horns to emulate the shape of her horns

Now begins the harder part, wrapping the electrical tape around the entire head piece.
I began by taking some of the larger duct tape pieces and sticking them to the cardboard to form a hat shape around the back and across the top. Once I was happy with the base of the hat/head piece I continued wrapping electrical tape up the wire horns. I cut the front piece to make the widows peak.  

This took a lot of tape and has some weight to it.
I recommend using some heavy duty clips or bobby pins.

      

Me: do you tweet? Do you like screamo? Do you daydream about Ron Swanson?

Stranger: No, no, and no. I have kids & I hate Parks & Rec.

Me: I hate everyone my age.

Happy Birthday MJ

From one of my favorite music videos of all time. 

7 Things

 1. Still doing pretty good at keeping my fingers out of my mouth.

2. We finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy and it was freaking awesome. So good.

he's not using the cone anymore but I couldn't resist posting this. he was giving us MAJOR side-eye as we were walking out of the door to go see the movie. when his back is turned away you know he's pissed.

3. Anyone know what this is growing from my plant? 

 4. AF vandals at their best. Clever Fucks.

5. My view the other night while laying in bed. This is us most nights.

6. My view this afternoon while at a stop light.

7. Tyrone has been working on his sleeve for a good six months or more. The other night this fish looked really cool in the light with the scabs still on it. I thought so at least. The ink on this one is so bright it's almost unreal looking. By the time he's done he'll have one hell of an Under the Sea theme sleeve - little mermaid and singing lobster not included. 

Easter Egg (thanks for staying through the end credits)

My nephew with his two faces. He moved it while I was trying to take a panoramic shot of the them while we were at City Creek. 

Summer Vacation 2014 - Seattle

I wish I could say I saved the best for last but that would be a big fat total opposite of the truth. I won't get into, but let's just say I can't wait to go back and have more time there with Tyrone. It was the last day of our trip and we spent a large part of it driving. We didn't even get out of the car to see the space needle. Again, Tyrone had never been here and there was so much I wanted him to see but none of it worked out. The date was Friday, June 13th. The exact date of our 5 year anniversary and we ended up in a casino for the evening. I said I wouldn't get into so I won't, but I will say that neither of us were very pleased with how our night ended.

On a more positive note, the moment I stepped out of the car when we finally arrived in Seattle, I took a deep breath in and exhaled slowly. The air there is the most clear, clean, lovely smelling air. If you didn't know, Utah has some of the worst air in the country. It always smells like exhaust or some rotten egg smell coming off of one of the lakes. It rarely smells good anymore even when it rains here. With that said, I didn't want to leave Seattle alone for the simple fact of how incredible it smelled. It smelled like air should smell. It smelled like trees and whatever else in nature smells good. Smell. Smell. Smell.

I just went through my pictures to see how many I would need to edit or delete and I just realized I didn't take my Samsung out at all. Not even once. I only used my iPhone camera. So here it is in all it's good smelling glory. I can finally mark this off of my to-do list.

by the time we got to the market EVERYTHING was just about closed

Ok, this place was open where I had the most delightful food of my life. Honest.