"Merlin fancies you!"

...Possibly the most funny reaction to my telling children that I was Guinevere!

 Yes, it was World Book day today!  After toying with all those ideas that I shared with you, eventually I decided on Guinevere (incidently, if you are asking me which book it is, since most of my kids only knew Merlin , then it is T.H White's The once and future king, a book in the Arthurian series I chose for my GCSE English Open study!).

CBC bought me a beautiful blue cape for my birthday which was brilliant for this costume!

 The dress is vintage, I believe- it was £2.50 in a local charity shop last summer.  It's either 70's or an ex-theatre costume in a regency style.  I decorated it with a strip of gold brocade material that's been kicking around since 2005, it was left over from some trousers I had made!

 The headdress caused me major issues!  I tried to make a Medieval conical hat (you know the ones I mean?) with purple sugar paper but after an hour and a half of failure, I rethought.
I saw headdresses like this one on a costume online so I decided to make one like it.

 (Excuse the NASTY photo!) I took a pair of purple tights- twisted them and secure the ends in the twist shape with hair bands.  Then I took more gold brocade material and wrapped them together.  More hairbands to secure. 
To attach it to my head, I took another black hair-band and attached white organza ribbons to it then I put the purple headdress around my head and caught the ends with the decorated headband

 Finally, I plaited my  in 2 and wrapped gold ribbon in a criss-cross shape around them.

The great-thing about the head-dress is that no pins or sewing was needed so I can just dismantle it and wear the tights as before etc!  (does this count as my first Make a month for March?! Please reassure me!)

Did any of you or your kids dress up?!?!