Dangerous Addiction to Fancy Dress

Badger_Lady

Eeeep! It's happening again - I can't resist - I'm going to spend money :eek:

I have a serious problem with fancy dress competitions. I've never lost one. Ever. Not since I was a little girl at school.

I get very carried away... I always look for an original idea, buy the bits and pieces I need and put it together myself (there's generally a lot of building and craft work involved).

But by the time I buy all the materials to make it look *good* it costs more than a rental!

I actually got banned from entering the fancy dress competitions at my last office, because I'd make supreme efforts to trump myself every time, and no-one else at work had a chance.

But now I've started a new job and they're offering all these super prizes. They've even got us competing with the foreign offices.

So I've done it again! I've got a costume in my head, very little time left to work on it and the shopping list is growing. Already I need to buy:

- Expansive amounts of cardboard
- Silver spray
- Wood-effect vinyl
- Mirrored perspex
- Wood dowling
- Magnetic strips
- Elastic
- 'Eyes' (as in curtain making, hooks and eyes)
- Large flowers
- Victorian-style clothing (I have a favourite vintage dress shop to check for this)
- Silver-coloured vinyl fabric

Fortunately I already have:
- Facepaints / makeup
- Wig
- Petticoats / skirts
- Lace gloves
- Jewellery

In my head, the shopping list is justified because it's just 'finishing touches' to the stuff I already have. And winning the prize justifies it too.

I'm obsessed! HELP!

luvvlyjubbly

You could always go as the invisible man and just not turn up!

Curly

well post some of the old costumes to we see them

Badger_Lady

Here are a few... I actually don't have great pictures!





The next one is much more ambitious though...

Badger_Lady

Oh well, it drove me mad for a few weeks there but at least I won £60 out of it