My daughter watches us raid sometimes, and during one Dragon Soul encounter, she decided she wanted to be “The Red Dragon Lady!”…which, as most of you should know is Alexstraza the Life-Binder:

Borrowed from:
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Well, My daughter is 9, sooo that just wasn’t happening.  Maybe when she’s 30…and I’m dead….maybe.

So we searched over all the dragonkin we could think of that she may like and we found this image of Chromie:

 And my daughter absolutely loved it.  So, I sat out to find the stuff to make my girl child into Chromie. (*note* we did use the shoulders from Chromie in Andorhal image as our basis to make the ones in the photo)

I bought a child’s choir robe, a child’s black graduation stole, some various embellishments, a blue pendant and a blonde wig.  I did the entire costume with a (low temp) hot glue gun and some tacky glue.  Kurby constructed the shoulders out of felt, black paint and more embellishment.

The gown, I glued embelishment to the arms and bottom

Added the stole which I added the gold embellishment to as well.

Kurby hand crafted the shoulders from felt

We made the gold part of the front from some extra fabric and tried it on her

and then we added in the shoulders!

All in all, the costume probably cost me about 40 dollars to make, including all the supplies to put it together, and it made me one entirely happy child!  She really enjoyed seeing replies to her photo on twitter!  Thank you to everyone who gave the kind words and encouragement as we were piecing the costume together and getting opinions!