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So Princess Mononoke fits in with Niamh's pattern of unique party themes. It's a good thing I love a creative challenge! Howl's Moving Castle: Sophie Hatter • Howl Jenkins • The Witch of the Waste • Madam Suliman • Prince Justin • Markl San’s wolf pelt! Take your white fur and fold it in half, right sides together. Using your marker, trace out the half-shape of her cape around the fold. To make this look more like a pelt and less like and amorphous blob of fur, I added some various movements in the lines. I also attempted making mochi for the first time! It turned out really well, and I'll add the link as soon as I have the tutorial and video up in a few days. Princess Mononoke Birthday Party Favors Using your wax pattern again, cut the same 2 dress pieces out of your white cotton fabric, except this time, make the bottom several inches shorter and the sides of the dress a bit more narrow and straight. This is going to be your pinafore. Instead of sewing the sides together, simply attach the top of the 2 pieces of the pinafore together, and fold over the sides of the dress, sewing them down. Do not sew these sides together. Hem all the raw edges except, again, for the bottom edge, which you can cut notches out of as well if you like.

Looking for something to do with all your leftover clay? Roll up 4 small balls, one medium ball, and one large ball. Last but not least, Princess Mononoke’s spear. Paint your dowel rod with your brown craft paint. Next, design your spearhead on a piece of folded wax paper to ensure your head is symmetrical. Make sure to leave a rectangular tab at the bottom of your design as an anchor to tie down to your dowel rod. Cut out your design from a piece of 3mm craft foam. Do this twice so that you have two identical pieces. We always have a pinata at our birthday parties. I bought a baseball pinata and some red and white crepe paper, and just adapted it for the Princess Mononoke theme. Sometimes I make my pinatas from scratch, but sometimes it's just easier to buy a premade pinata from the party store and just re-decorate it instead of doing the papier-mâché, too. Mix your paint colors for the base layer, the main color of San's mask. I mixed a 3 parts bright red, 1 part magenta, 1/2 part tan, 1/2 part yellow and a twinge of dark brown. The dark brown goes a long way, so I added a little at a time until I got the color I wanted. Of course, you can mix the colors any way you want, depending if you want a brightly colored mask or a slightly dull one like mine. Remember your paint proportions in case you need to mix some more later. Patterns are based on measurements: (Height : 5ft8 / 175cm, Chest : 94cm/ 37.4″, Waist : 70cm/ 27.5″, Hips 100 cm/ 39.4″, Shoe : EU 41 / UK9 / 27cm)Doing it slowly makes it a lot easier and you'll be less likely to slip. Perhaps an electric drill might also work for this task, but I didn't have one on me, so I just plunged my tiny paper-cutting knife into the outline and used a sawing motion to work the holes away. Much of the technique for the knife comes from Otaku Crafts, http://www.otakucrafts.com/2012/09/princess-mononoke-san-cosplay-mask-and-knife-progress/

Once you have your pattern figured out, cut it out and lay it on your piece of folded blue fabric. Make sure to line the fold of the fabric with the fold of your pattern. Pin your wax paper down and cut your pattern out. Do this twice, so that you have 2 identical and symmetrical dress pieces. First, get a pot lid that is around the same size of your face. This will be the mold for your paper mache. I removed the lid handle because I was worried the screw attaching the handle to the lid would make an indent in the mask. Cover it with clingfilm for easy removal I wrapped and glued down two rounds of leather cord at the end of the handle where it meets the blade, to hide the paint lines and to make the knife look more finished. Hey, but it works and I can jump around without them falling off! Plus they are a lot more comfortable than magnetic earrings, since those things make my ears hurt like crazy afterwards...This is really easy. Draw a rough cloak shape on your fur. I didn't want the cloak to be very long, so I only had it down to my waist. Make sure to leave enough fur to attach to your dress later. Shoes: This is something I could have improved on. I opted to wear brown leather boots since I'm a little on the small side and would like to appear taller. But these shoes look nothing like San's hide mocassins.... Repeat steps for the second ear, but if you want to work on two ears at the same time, that's fine too. Next, when your pieces are all dry, string your earrings to the earring hooks using your embroidery thread.

Princess Mononoke is Studio Ghibli’s 1997 epic fantasy film, taking place in Muromachi-era Japan. The only Studio Ghibli film to receive a PG-13 rating, Princess Mononoke was, and still is, extremely popular in Japan, and the US as well. Though the main protagonist of the story is an Emishi prince named Ashitaka, the focus of the film shifts to a girl named San. San, who calls herself “Princess Mononoke”, was raised by wolves and, as such, harbors a resentment for humans. (I feel you, girl.) Draw two isoceles triangles on card. I used a cereal box. If you're a perfectionist like me, you can use a protractor and set square to get the angles right. I didn't want it to be a huge knife so I made it slightly longer than the length of my hand.I bought my fur online on Taobao, 75RMB for 50cm x 180 cm, here: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.1.w4004-2621074704.4.D0eddC&id=18638727574, which was enough material for me. The New York Times review, written by Janet Maslin, called Princess Mononoke a "landmark feat of Japanese animation", with images, such as plants and flowers springing to life beneath the Shishigami’s hooves, that are "simple, meaningful and ravishingly presented". Nowhere is it mentioned that the film is too long. "And all of a sudden," says Gaiman, "the next thing I hear is that the fancy launch and giant marketing roll-out for Princess Mononoke that had been planned was not going to happen. It was going to roll out in 10 cities with no particular advertising push behind it. Harvey didn’t even show up for the premiere in Hollywood. Next you can adjust the boot’s shape to your liking. I chose to fold down the tops and stitch the fold in place with some embroidery thread. I also secured a piece of twine in the middle to the center of the front of my ankle with embroidery thread as well. As you can see, San has a small bit of rope or string wrapped around her boots a few times, so this embellishment helped to emulate this style. Again, you can use your brown paint to add dirt marks to your shoes as I did, or leave them as they are. With Studio Ghibli," says Napier, "you have a sense that, contrary to the Judeo-Christian Western point of view, humans are not necessarily the dominant creatures in the world." It's an ethos with arguable roots in Japan's history of ecological disasters, and in Shintoism, the animistic folk religion of Japan, based around the faith that there is a spirit in all things. Writing in 2006, in promotional material for a new short film, Miyazaki states that, "I am much more attracted to the idea of preserving the forests… not for the sake of humans, but because they themselves are alive." In the words of Yoshioka, "He believes that we should not protect nature just because it’s useful, or try to control it. Instead, we should respect nature as something which has agency of its own." This belief is perhaps encapsulated best in a scene in Princess Mononoke described by Napier as "the Sistine Chapel of animation". It is the sequence in which a group of hunters, led by the opportunistic monk Jigo, catch a glimpse of the Shishigami in the huge, translucent form it takes after sunset. Miyazaki's films are invariably beautiful: drawn and animated with an obsessive attention to detail, and painted with the kind of clarity and depth that can make you look at the world with new eyes, like falling in love, or coming close to death. The Shishigami however is quite different. It looms over the forest like a walking night sky; inspiring both awe and terror alike. "It is not cuddly and cute," says Napier. "It looks other and scary. Then it starts to transform and you see these little Kodama creatures [tiny tree spirits, whose faces are fixed with impish smiles] look on in wonder. It is a sublime moment that has nothing to do with human beings."

Knife/Spear: I made a cardboard knife prototype, covered it with paper mache and painted it, again following this method by the same author as the mask tutorial: http://www.otakucrafts.com/2012/09/princess-mononoke-san-cosplay-mask-and-knife-progress/ For the mask, I opted to use paper mache and cover it with a layer of paper clay, following this amazing tutorial here: http://www.otakucrafts.com/2012/10/princess-mononoke-san-mask-tutorial/ This idea of a man at war with himself is obvious to see in the characters and world of Princess Mononoke: a film that, as Miyazaki told a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998, "was not made to judge good and evil". Take Lady Eboshi, whose mining colony is manufacturing an arsenal of guns to use against the forest gods. In most animated movies, she would be cast as the greedy, villainous scourge of nature. But Eboshi is also a generous leader, someone who has liberated women (implied to be former sex workers) from feudalistic oppression, who has provided a safe haven for leprosy sufferers and outcasts, and whose industrialisation work is raising the standards of human life. I hand-painted simple bamboo designs on plain white paper bags to hold all the guests' loot (including Japanese candies from the pinata). I love decorating plain gift bags! Tutorial coming soon.Once the glue has dried, carefully slide your dowel into the bottom of the spearhead, about half-way through. Tie your red ribbon around the top of your dowel and the tab of your spearhead, tightly securing them together. The character of San "Princess Mononoke" proved so popular with the staff at Studio Ghibli they renamed the film from the initial title, "The Legend of Ashitaka" to the eponymous title after her. It is an echo of an enduring theme of Miyazaki's later work: a rallying call to children, and perhaps to himself, that no matter how bad the world gets, no matter how tempting it is to fall into fatalism or despair, you must keep on going. "Life is suffering," Ashitaka is told by a man with leprosy his face encased in bandages. "It is hard. The world is cursed, but still you find reasons to keep living." Take a shorter, but wide strip, and tape above the previous strip. Tape both ends to the ear base. Then rip the center of the strip and pull them together to make the taper. Tape firmly together.