Dress up your kids' rooms at Walgreens?

I stumbled upon this while searching for something unrelated, of course, which is how my web surfing usually goes. Here are the first couple paragraphs of the article and the rest is at the source link provided.

Marvel Superheroes to Invade Walgreens

April 21, 2009

-By Becky Ebenkamp

Marvel Entertainment will partner with Walgreens for a direct-to-retail merchandise program at 6,000-plus drugstores, as part of a new strategy to expand its product lines and reach new customers.

Characters from Spider-Man Classic, Iron Man Classic, Hulk Classic, Marvel Comics Retro, Marvel Heroes, the Iron Man movie and the Hulk movie properties will grace toys, automotive accessories, pet products, photo department accessories, food gift sets, novelty candy, night lights, snow globes, holiday decorations, table and chair sets, wall decals, tumblers, posters, inflatables, flashlights and other products. Merchandise will hit shelves in spring 2010.

(Read the full story at the original site here.)

Fairytale Photoshoot in Brooklyn this Saturday

Allow me to direct your attention to the SteamFashion community at LiveJournal.com. One of the members is organizing a fairytale photoshoot at the Brooklyn Botanical gardens for this Saturday at 11 am.

I had my mum bring me the old Alice costume she made for me back in college before I was doing any sewing of my own. Lo and behold, it still fits really well.



As I said, no much in my steamy wardrobe yet. I added black gloves, black tights, a choker and put pigtails in my purpley hair. I'm off to find boots at the thrift store. It's really more of a goth take on it but for now, that's the best I can do. I hope to make my own version some day maybe with dark blue pin stripe fabric or something nifty. ;)

Harry Potter costume exhibit - Chicago

Oh how I wish travel wasn't so expensive! The Museum of Science & Industry is planning a glorious exhibition on Harry Potter props and costumes from April 30 - Sept 27. More than 200 pieces from the film franchise will be on display including Harry's original wand and eyeglasses. One of the exhibits will be a real version of Hagrid's hut which you can personally tour. Has anything this cool been done since having the real "Archie" ship (Watchmen) at Comic-Con?

http://www.harrypotterexhibition.com/

w.i.p. Athena Voltaire

I still need some pieces to finish this character like the belt and the guns. Eventually I will get around to making a jacket which matches more accurately but in the meanwhile, here's what I've come up with for Athena Voltaire:

The jacket was an evilbay find and one of my guilty purchases of real leather; the boots also real leather and the pants were thrift store finds.

(2010 update with store bought outfit):

Kitty Pryde/Shadow Cat

Following up on the previous post, Princess Caico now has a completed Marvel X-Men costume. She has been been entered in their Pet Avengers contest (awaiting mod approval over at flickr).

Marvel Pet Contest

I wonder if Marvel saw Rage Kitty and got jealous! Looks like I'll have to work on another supersuit for Caico and enter her:

http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/win-a-role-in-a-marvel-co.php

Rage of the Red Lanterns

The only issue of Final Crisis I bothered to read was "Rage of the Red Lanterns" and for one reason only -- RAGE KITTY! I mean, I'm sorry about Bzzzt and all, but come on... bloodfilled feline of pure hate! It's genius really.

So on this gloriously bright and sunny afternoon while I'm battling a lovely first spring sinus cold, I sat down and created a simplified version of Rage Kitty for my beautiful girl:

I like this picture the best because Caico just looks so damn pissed off and her always reflective blue eyes look blood-filled.

Since I was wearing my Rage shirt too I had to get in the picture.