Let's Make a Witch

In past years I have made life size witches using a  dress form,  but this year I took a different approach.   I used a coat rack!
 (I have a simple tutorial later in this post)

The dress I used on my coat rack was the one that Kyleigh wore last year for Halloween.

I did add a few touches of my own to her dress....

For my coat rack witch,  I used a store bought witch hat with feathers around the brim.    I wanted the hat to be taller,  so I added on another layer of hat by making a simple hat from newspaper .  I made a cone out of three thicknesses of  newspaper.....cut a brim also using three thicknesses.  and stapled the two together.

Here's a close up of my newspaper hat with the taller cone.....I just sat it on my base hat.

I used some clip on roses that were originally Christmas ornaments to decorate my hat.   The clip on's already had the pearls and ribbon on them.    These clip on roses have been so versatile,   I think the last time you saw them they were clipped on to a chandy.

I gave my witch a glittery silver mask

I added matching clip on roses to the skirt

I tied a pretty pink scarf around my witches waist

I found her a pair of shoes in my closet,  they aren't regular witch shoes,  but it's all I had.

Ok....now to my short tutorial.

  I had a $7 auction coat rack.      I loved the way someone married all this stuff together.

I hung some net on the coat hooks.....the net is the kind you use to wrap around tree's to keep the birds from eating your fruit.
  I bought it at a yard sale  for a couple of dollars.

 I hung Kyleigh's Halloween dress on the coat hooks....

I wanted the dress to be a little longer,  so I pinned a couple of black can-can's to the bottom of the original dress.  The can can's are also old Halloween costumes.
In the third photo you can see how I just clipped the roses onto the skirt bottom.

I had so much fun doing this project!     If you would like to make a witch this Halloween,   I hope my short tutorial was helpful



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