{"id":7195,"date":"2025-03-11T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:23:50","slug":"gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-for-mardi-gras-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-for-mardi-gras-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGras-goyle\u201d gargoyle costume for Mardi Gras 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This here &#8220;Gras-goyle&#8221; costume for Mardi Gras 2025 was one of my most ambitious projects ever! I&#8217;ve written up my whole process in seven(!) articles. If you&#8217;re having trouble sleeping, these may help! And below are a bunch of pics of me wearing the finished costume on Mardi Gras day with Cryptique. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-04.jpg\" alt=\"A forward-facing view of my costume during our parade.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of articles documenting my process for this costume:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-for-mardi-gras-2025-wip-part-1\/\">Part 1: column<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-wip-part-2-wings\/\">Part 2: wings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-wip-part-3-mask\/\">Part 3: starting the mask<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-wip-part-4-mask-finished\/\">Part 4: finishing the mask<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-wip-part-5-hands-and-legs\/\">Part 5: hands and legs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-wip-part-6-finishing-touches\/\">Part 6: finishing touches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/gras-goyle-gargoyle-costume-part-7-thoughts-on-painting-and-color\/\">Part 7: notes on painting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-01.jpg\" alt=\"My Mardi Gras gargoyle costume; a purple gargoyle sitting on a purple column, walking down the street in a small parade.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-02.jpg\" alt=\"Another view of my costume during our parade.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-03.jpg\" alt=\"A close view of the top part of my costume during our parade.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-05.jpg\" alt=\"Yet another view of my costume during our parade.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I forgot about this, check this out! While we were on one of our breaks during our parade, some random lady asked if she could put my costume on, and I said sure! My friend Chuk was off to the side and took this pic. Hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-06.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gargoyle-costume-on-mardi-gras-06.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s really and truly all for this year&#8217;s costume! What a fantastic Mardi Gras and Carnival season! You may not be surprised to hear that next year is already in the works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This here &#8220;Gras-goyle&#8221; costume for Mardi Gras 2025 was one of my most ambitious projects ever! I&#8217;ve written up my whole process in seven(!) articles. If you&#8217;re having trouble sleeping, these may help! And below are a bunch of pics of me wearing the finished costume on Mardi Gras day with Cryptique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}