Missy has a few accessories that need to be addressed. There's her hat, complete with hatpin, her device (which a fellow Missy cosplayer dubbed the "MPDA" - Missy PDA), and lastly, her jewelry, including cameo, spiky bracelet, and her cyber bracelet.
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So starting with the hat, after searching around more expensive options, I decided to remake a >$4 trilby from my local big-box store. I turned it inside out and used a seam ripper to remove the top half, flattened it with a steamy iron, and stitched it back on by hand. I used that same steam iron to press out the brim's original curl, then press in the new side flip:
To make the hatpin, I used Sculpey to form the black spike at the end, forming it over the head end of a 5" hat pin. Since JoAnn's only sells those in packets of 3, and allowing for the risk of damage in the forming/curing process, I went ahead and made 2. I could not find teardrop shaped pearly beads in time for the con, so I went with a basic round shape, and hit it with some Krazy Glue (the Kragle!) to stay in place.
The final stage was to add purple flowers, daisies, and dark and light cherries to the hat. In retrospect, it also needed netting around the crown, but I stitched the flowers on, so I will have to go back at some other time to add the net.
Next up, my MPDA... I cut the shape out of several layers of balsa wood, and used the original prop design image (not totally SA, since the final version was more silver), and mod podged it to the (painted) wood. For a 3-D effect, I cut the "lens" side into two layers.
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