Project: Worm Bum

Last week, work began on Project Worm Bum, otherwise known as “Michelle’s Most Epic Halloween Costume Yet.” Each year I promise to have a fantastic Halloween costume and each year I let costume supply shopping wait until the last moment, when I typically lose enthusiasm for the effort and just do a crap ass job. See: the sailor outfit that consisted of a sailor shirt and jeans and the Cyndi Lauper outfit that looked nothing at all like Cyndi Lauper. But not this year! No! This year I resolve to finish my costume with time to spare.

Stark and I had an amazing idea for a costume while watching a movie that shall remain nameless. This led to elaborate plans for a costume that quite possibly will be too awesome to even fit in the apartment. It involves acrylic paint, a wire armature, and yards and yards of the same stretchy fabric they use to make figure skating costumes. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE? You’ll have to wait and find out.

But here, in the interests of posting something to this blog so it looks like I actually work on projects instead of just procrastinate, are the first photos of Worm Bum construction. No one involved has any experience with making armatures, so it was an adventure, to say the least.

Here are the beginning stages of assembling part one of the armature:

And the final product, with cat: