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: May the Cross Stitch Be With You

Next to sewing, cross stitching is one of my favorite craft activities. Unfortunately, I've been so busy the past few months that I haven't had a chance to make one. But after checking out these Star Wars cross stitch patterns, I might have to set aside some time for these. 

Star Wars Alphabet from weelittlestitches

BB-8 from The Fig Tree Studio

I Love you. I know. from StitchLine

It's a Trap from DisorderlyStitches

 

Let the Wookie Win from StitchBucket

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!

30 Days of Star Wars: Her Universe Star Wars Collection

Unless you've been living under a rock, you might have heard that a certain movie revisiting a "Galaxy far, far, away" will make its way into theaters next month. 30 days to be exact. So to commemorate it, I'll be attempting to write a Star Wars post every day until the Dec. 17 (yeah it actually comes out on the 18th, but we all know die hard fans will be watching it the night before.)
I'll be posting everything to DIY projects to links to worthwhile articles. I'll also be documenting a R2D2 costume I.m creating for my costuming class.

First off, yesterday Her Universe partnered with Hot Topic and released an exclusive collection and of course I want it all! Her Universe really paved the way to bring fandom fashion mainstream. I remember when the only way to express your favorite fandom, a word that wasn't even used back then, was buying the shirts in the men's department. Now you can find clothing at every big box store and there are a plethora of crafters online that make fandom clothing and accessories. Stayed tuned for that post!

As for the Star Wars collection, here are my favorites.

Princess Leia Dress

Darth Vader Cape Dress

Darth Vader Faux Leather Jacket. Inside the lining is red with "You underestimate the power of the dark side" printed on the inside.

BB-8 Bomber Jacket. There's also Boba Fett version.

Baseball tee with the Star Wars cast

R2-D2 Sweater

Darth Vader Sweater

 Do you plan on purchasing anything from the line?

From Superheroes to Star Wars

You know what's just as exhausting as being at a convention all day? Travelling to Hollywood and Anaheim to take pictures of cosplayers. That's what I did yesterday with Nerd-Con (there will be a post on that later this week). Our first destination was Hollywood and Highland for the DC Comics Super Hero World Record Event. This was part of a global event for the largest gathering of people dressed up as DC comics super heroes. It started in Australia and also included, Mexico, Spain, France, and the Philippines to name a few. It was a fun event, I had my picture taken with The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, got a fun Wonder Woman temporary tattoo courtesy of Hot Topic and even got a free t-shirt from the event. How cool is that?

After spending a few hours in Hollywood, I made my way down to Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center. I didn't have a pass to go on the convention floor. But with all the cosplayers outside, it was the next best thing. There were so many awesome cosplays that I couldn't take pictures of all of them. But here are a few of them with the last one being hands down my favorite on Saturday. Spoilers, "It's a trap!"