30 Days of Star Wars: Dollar Tree Finds

On a recent trip to Dollar Tree, I came across a lot of Star Wars merchandise. Honestly though, where can you not find the stuff? We'll be up in our eyeballs in it by the time the movie comes out. But I don't care because it's cool to find cool merchandise in all price ranges. Plus the Dollar Tree is an awesome place to get stocking fillers or create a Star Wars themed basket.

Some of the things I found:

Chicken Noodle Soup. I bought a can for my lunch at work, but I have to say I like the Spaghetti-O's version better. 

Darth Vader Door Hanger

Holiday Countdown Chalkboard. Using these to countdown The Force Awakens.  ;)

Door Cover

 I may have bought a few to use these for my friends Christmas presents. 

The cheapest kids Darth Vader costume ever.

Balloons and Journals

To keep your PB&J BB-8 fresh.

Some other things I saw but forgot to take pictures of; Santa hats, Christmas stockings, and gift wrap. Basically Dollar Tree has almost everything you need to get your Star Wars merchandise fix.

30 Days of Star Wars: Creating my R2-D2 Costume: Part One

I'm currently taking a costuming class at my local community college and our final project is a costume of our design from our chosen era. Since I knew I wanted to make a new costume to wear for Star Wars, I decided to make an R2-D2 costume, re-imagined in the 1950s.

Upon talking to my teacher, she pointed me in the direction of researching sci-fi films from the 1950s. Here are some of my inspirations for the costume. Once I have it finalized, then I can do the fun part, looking for the items to create it!