Halloween Town Kairi, 2011

I use to have a friend that was a Kingdom Hearts fanatic. She was obsessed with Sora and his friends and it was always her dream to make all of his outfits and to someday get a big group together to play his friends and have outfits that matched his.

I was the designated Kairi for the Western states; the other was in Florida. I was inspired to make a Halloween Town Kairi. I admit, I had ulterior motives in hoping that this would inspire her and others from our group to make costumes and we'd have something for next year.

I didn't really have a lot of time last October to really make a costume. I was busy with Anime Banzai. But I did have in my possession a skirt and top that were given to me for a gift that were perfect for what I wanted to accomplish. I searched through my accessories box and found a lot of gloves and tights and various other decorations to pull this outfit together.

Halloween was over by the time I got it done and the local corn maze was close, but not yet harvested. My photographer and I went out and shot some pictures in the field before it got plowed under.

The hat was the only thing I made. I bought black craft foam and had to make a couple of attempts at drawing the perfect heart shape. I cut out two and trimmed one to be a little smaller and painted it purple with blue and black. I used the mask of Sora's Halloween Town costume as a reference for the face. I used purple ribbon for a trim and glued everything onto a witch hat I found at a crafts store.