Umbrella Of Death And Destruction

I always wanted one of these goth parasols.

Lace? Naaah, too graveyard, and WAY too expencive. I wanted something more playful. And cheap. So I got a non-spectacular umbrella in a second hand store and two packages of HUGE scary-sized black nylon tights, grabbed scissors, needles and black thread, set another smallville episode on *play* and came up with this!

Took me two days ( WHOLE days, ladies... Yay for holidays... ), lots of cursing, lots of pricks and a huge amount of DVDs.

As soon as I had it finished, I phoned a befiended photographer and we fooled around a bit. ( The first pic really is not one of the best ones, but you can see the darling umbrella-ella-ella-e-e-e quite good, so... )

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As I already said in a comment, I'm not gonna do a how-to! I had none and no idea what I was doing when I started.
Anyways, a tutorial would look like this:

- get umbrella frame.
- randomly sew pieces of black pantyhose nylon on frame.
- destroy nylon pieces afterwards.

Don't tell me you couldn't figure this out?

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michelle G.

27 Sep 23:23

I love it.

Carley Mouse

27 Sep 23:30

Wow, this is amazing

Dolly

28 Sep 01:31

this is just about the best thing ever. XD

Candice C.

28 Sep 02:36

kudos to you and your photographer friend - parasol and pics came out equally excellent.

Lilim

28 Sep 02:39

Lilim so needs one of these but what is "tights"

beadingjunkee

28 Sep 03:32

lilim, tights are like opaque leg stockings.

camilaustral

28 Sep 04:14

that's a great idea
(and i laugh withe the "ella-ella" part, i kinda hate that song xD)

Darling Chelsea

28 Sep 04:38

Spectacular, really :)

Laura N.

28 Sep 05:03

this is so great! could you post a how to?

Mi.ezekatze

28 Sep 09:06

@camilaustral: I can't stand it, too, but the song hit me while posting this! ^^

@Laura N.: Uhm, I guess a tutorial would be rather useless because once you ripped off the original fabric, you're swimming in shoreless waters and just have to try and go with the flow...

Sugarlishes

28 Sep 14:05

oooh I saw the rest of the pics on your myspace and this is fanastic you did a great job! Your friend is an outstanding photographer! :D

Boo_its_Brittany

28 Sep 17:17

I LOVELOVELOVE this!
Ahh. Amazing.
and I alsot LOVELOVELOVE your outfit!
*jealous of your radness*

PB

28 Sep 22:48

That is so CUTE!! I'll make one for my friend for her birthday, it's coming up and she's going to be a dead English Nanny for Halloween (long story, don't ask, lol)

28 Sep 22:49

No, lilim, they are not opaque, that means you can't see through them. They're like see-through (transluscent) leggings/stockings.

29 Sep 00:55

tights are "pantyhoses", i speak spanish and pantyhoses made understand when i didn't know :P

My-Linh T.

29 Sep 04:43

That is so cute, I kinda want to make one now :)

29 Sep 07:58

Awww, thank you all for your nice words.
If you try and succeed, PLEASE show me! :D ( I guess this thing would look FABULOUS with a smaller childs umbrella... )

@ Pumpernickel Babe: dead English Nanny sound fun and I -love- the idea!
@ the "tights"-problem: Err, I had a feeling it was the right word?! Thank you ladies for explaining!