A Year of Costumes | 2025

Valerie | Pokémon X and Y

My anime build for the Overload costume competition this year. I had a lot of stupid little things go wrong when making this, which caused me to not love it as much as I thought I would. I didn’t even get to try the completed outfit on until the day of the competition. Speaking of, I did manage to win Best in Show so it can’t have been that bad.

Anna | Frozen

The first deviation from my plans was Anna’s outfit from Frozen. My friend, (also named Anna) was making Elsa to wear to the Winter Armageddon expo, so I semi surprised her by making this Anna to match!

Although Frozen isn’t my favorite of the Disney films, I do adore Anna’s wardrobe. This was so fun to make and incredibly warm.

Look out for more Anna costumes in the future!

Mary Poppins + Bert | Mary Poppins

Made just in the nick of time for Sandbox Fandom Fest 2025. I have accidentally committed to making a new Disney costume each year for this convention after making Mirable for it for the previous year.

I decided on Mary because I’ve had the hats for it stuck on my wall for ages now.

Charli XCX | Powerpop Girls

This came about after I joking said to Anna on the drive down to Winter Armageddon, that we should do a Powerpop Girls group (like the Powerpuff Girls) after listening to copious amounts of Chapel Roan and Sabrina Carpenter.

I settled on Charli XCX as she’s my favourite of the current pop girls. This was a recreation of her Grammy’s outfit, one of my favourite looks of hers from the year.

Frodo Baggins | Lord of the Rings

This was actually a costume planned for next year (2026) with Anna as Sam. But I’d already started gathering fabric from fabric-a-bracs when Armageddon announced Elijah Wood as a guest for their Spring expo. An expo I hadn’t been planning to attend until that moment.

So I brought the making of forward a year and it turned out to be one of my most fun to wear costumes ever.

Harley Quinn | The Suicide Squad

I hadn’t planned to make this dress at the start of the year, but I was stuck waiting for more fabric to arrive for my Charli XCX costume before I could progress any further with it and then happened upon the red sequin fabric for this one, locally and for really cheap. So naturally, I started a whole new costume while waiting for more fabric in the post. That, and I found the perfect vintage military leather boots in my size at the second hand store.

I also had a go at making the javelin myself this time, something I only bothered to poorly photoshop in to my old version.

Barbie | Barbie

This one was a total accident. I went to my Aunties dress up birthday party earlier in the year as Beach Barbie and Ken with my husband. I then mentioned how fun the costumes were to wear together and how we should totally wear them to the Friday of Armageddon.

It was then that I remembered I had brought another sheet set years ago to remake the Perfect Day dress with so that’s what I did.

I didn’t film any of the process because originally, I was going to make it exactly the same way I had made my old one, until I discovered I’d done the pleated skirt part the wrong way. I ended up doing so much of it significantly differently that it would have been worth making a new video of after all.