Me as a Tacky Glue bottle

I haven't even begun to think about a Halloween costume...I need to come up with something very quickly because Halloween at iLoveToCreate is a spectacular event and I'm down to just a few days. My first year working here was the best - I made (yes, from scratch) an Aleene's Original Tacky Glue bottle costume. I hurried over to Hancock Fabrics and bought a yard of really thick gold satin fabric, 2' wide elastic, velcro, boning and styrofoam...I grabbed a bottle of Tulip 3D Fashion Paint and Aleene's No Sew Fabric Glue from our company Hobby Shop. Okay...now I think I've made it pretty clear that I'm not an on-the-spot creative person...it takes me plenty of time to get a good result...so I remember fearing that I just dumped $20 on materials that would end up in the trash! Not so. I decided to paint the fabric first...honestly, I don't remember how I got the lettering so straight and legible...maybe I made a stencil (that's how I'd do it today). I was ultra-proud of the UPC (it's on the back so you can't see my marvelous work)!

Once the paint was dry, I made top and bottom seams with the boning, glued them in place, then adhered the velcro down one vertical seam so I could wrap the tube around me versus having to step in and out. I also glued elastic on both sides of the tube for shoulder straps. For the bottle cap, I used a flat circular piece of styrofoam and glued a cone styrofoam on top with Aleene's Foamtastic Glue.

I wore white leggings (they were extremely difficult to find a few years ago!) and a white turtleneck. I realized what a bad idea this was at lunch that day. While everyone else had made costumes that they could easily take off and be wearing normal clothes, I had to walk into the sandwich shop dressed as a glue bottle...since it wasn't a typical costume, I recieved a few awkward stares!!

So if you are looking for an extremely unique costume, try making a product costume...you are pretty much guaranteed that nobody will have the same one!