My Dance Costume!

So I posted yesterday about my first dance recital, but what I didn't mention is that I made the costume my self!!! Yes, the hat, the earrings, the dress, and I even made matching booty shorts for underneath! Plus I painted the hat pins to match :)

I made all the patterns myself, for the dress I copied a pattern from a basic t-shirt from H&M (I love those shirts), for the shorts I used a legging pattern I made from a tutorial over on the threadbanger forums! You can find the amazing legging tutorial here!

It was great! At the dance recital, I got lots of compliments on my outfit! Mothers, other dancers and my teacher all liked it! Yaaay! Compliments always make all the time you spend making stuff worth it! Hee hee!

My costume!!

 

A closer view of my hat and earrings!

My mommy gave me a rose after the show!!! :D

Those eyelashes and lipstick were so much fun! Eeeeee! I love stage makeup!!! Hee hee!!!

So something that I don't think I have mentioned, is that I just started tap dancing in January. I found out that it's not very common to start dance at my age, especially with no former dance experience at all! But I just want to tell you all that, you are never to old to learn something new!!! Get out there and try something new, you never know you may really love it! I would have missed out on so much if I never put myself out there and tryed tap dance!!!

There was a group of older ladies, they called themselves the "Grooving Grannies"! I was very inspired by the fact that they didn't just sit back and let their brains get soggy!! They where out there dancing, getting exercise and having fun! It was so funny!! They were all dressed in stereotypical "old lady clothing", and they came out walking sort of shaky with canes, then they started dancing!!! It was amazing :D