Harpy Costume: Update

Been an interesting week so far. Manny has a tooth that is causing him a lot of pain! It is one of his wisdom teeth, so on Thursday he will be getting BOTH of his bottoms removed. Luckily for both of us, my work is letting me move my hours to Friday, so I can be with him after he is done. While he's had a major toothache, I've had a sore throat. My voice is partly shot, and it is bothersome, but other then that, I feel fine, and oddly energetic.

I've been thinking about the costume a lot, and working on it too. Manny has helped me with starting to build the wire frame of the primaries, as furniture foam will not hold up material to the length I want the wings to be (5ish feet each!) and so far so good. Also found some packing foam from work that I can use instead of furniture foam for the tail! A good find. I'll still probably need foam for the toes however, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I've drawn out the costume to some extent, trying to focus on keeping to an earthly colored theme. I'll be wearing mostly black, with some green along the edges, and the falcon/hawk hood I am commissioning from a friend of mine will be brown and black with dark green coque feathers (rooster tail feathers).

That's the preliminary design, but we've talked about some minor changes. But I've finished the wire wings!

They don't look like much, but they will work :)

Another update on our afflictions... Manny had his bottom wisdom teeth removed, and I have been sick for a long time, hacking up a lung and what not, had a fever on Tuesday. Thankfully Manny has been feeling better, and so have I, in little ways. Still coughing. :( 

Till' next post! I'll post some pictures of the drawn out costume and the WIP of the wings. (Finished writing this post on April 2nd even though it is published the 27th of May!)