Halloween is coming, so it’s time to start thinking about costumes. Usually, we purchase our children’s costumes. This year, thanks to RIT Dye, I decided to try to make one myself.
Kate already has a black cat costume, but she wanted to have a different costume for a Halloween party she is attending. Since costumes can be pretty expensive, I challenged myself to use things we already had around our home for this one. We decided on a Fortune Teller Costume. It was so fun picking out items to repurpose using our RIT Dye!
I had this skirt from years ago that was just dying to be brightened up!
I rolled it up lengthwise and tied it with rubberbands in different places.
Next, we picked the colors we wanted to use. We went with Black, Apple Green, and Evening Blue.
Now, start the dying process. Since our project wasn’t very large, we decided to use the stove top method. We got a medium sized pot and filled it about 2/3 full with water, and brought to a boil. Then we turned the pot off completely. We were dying cotton, so we added some salt to the water, then poured in about 1/4 of the liquid from our dye container and mixed well. We started by dipping the bottom portion of our skirt into the Apple Green Dye. We let it sit in the dye bath for ten minutes, then pulled it out using tongs. Next, we transfered it to the sink and rinsed with cold water until the water ran clear.
Next, we used the Evening Blue dye. After getting the dye mixture ready, we dipped the middle part of the skirt into the blue dye, and repeated the above process. After ten minutes, we removed the skirt from the dye bath and rinsed in cold water until the water ran clear again. Now to finish the dying process, we took the top of the skirt and dyed it black using the same method.
Now you simply cut off the rubber bands, then wash and dry!
We also died a white scarf using the Apple Green and Black dye to use as a headband…every Fortune Teller must have a headband, right?
Add some fun jewelry and some props, and you are ready for business!
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Happy Halloween and may good fortune find you ;)
This post is sponsored by Blueprint Social and RIT Dye, but rest assured these opinions are absolutely my own.
Randi~Dukes and Duchesses says
atSo cute! I love the costume!
Jessica @ Stay at Home-ista says
atLove it! She is so lucky to have 2 costumes to play with this year:)
Jessica
Debbiedoo's says
atahhh Jessica this is adorable…absolutely adorable. Good job girl! Your daughter is the cutest fortune teller I have ever seen:)
Anne says
atCute costume!!
Hilani Ellis says
atStinkin’ adorable, oh and the costume too. ;) Have a great day Mrs. Crafty! xo
Heidi @ Moms Crafty Space says
atThis came out really great, Jessica! I’m thinking that I might need to dye some scarves for myself now. Love it!
Courtenay@Creek Line House says
atI’m so impressed! This looks like so much fun to do together with your kids too!
CK Mangold says
atSo cute! You did a great job Jessica!
Four Marrs and One Venus says
atHow adorable- your little fortune teller is so cute! WOW what a great costume!!
gail@My Repurposed Life says
atLove the costume Jessica! and the model is beautiful!
gail
Jill @ Create.Craft.Love. says
atThis is so cute! I love the fortune teller costume! She will be unique because you don’t see too many fortune tellers walking around for Halloween! I hope you are planning to enter it into our costume contest starting Oct 13!!! =)
Carmella says
atLove it, love it, love it!! what an awesome idea, my Nola girl would love this…hmmmmm do I have to tell her it was your idea?? hehehe….just kidding ;) Great job, friend!
Carrie says
atOh that is CUTE. And what an adorable little model!
malia says
atdarling! you did an amazing job with this!!!
Holly Lefevre says
atThis is so darn cute! What a great costume. Maybe that is what I will be for Halloween!
The Bold Abode says
atIsn’t she a super-cute Fortune teller! How fun!
Our Pinteresting Family says
atWhat a great costume! So fun!
Heidi@OneCreativeMommy.com says
atFantastic job! My weekly linky party–One Creative Weekend–has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit “One Creative Weekend” on OneCreativeMommy.com (open every Fri-Wed) and link up this idea and anything else you’d like to share. (You can include non-Halloween posts as well, but feel free to link up as many Halloween-themed posts as you like.) There are two categories—one for Halloween and one for everything else.
Elise@growcreative says
atCute costume! I remember dressing up like this when I was a kid!
Steph @ The Silly Pearl says
atSo completely cute and fun! My crystal ball tells me she will have a great Halloween!
Steph @ Crafting in the Rain says
atAdorable! I remember my mom dressing up as a fortune teller once while I was in elementary school–she came to our halloween party and gave fortunes :)
Jenn says
atAwesome costume. She is beautiful!