My ten year old son Cyrus was born with cerebral palsy. Three years ago I thought it would be great fun and bring lots of joy to incorporate his wheelchair as part of his costume. This year he choose to be an astronaut. Naturally I was excited to created his rocket ship. My dad and … Read more
This costume took a while to make but wasn’t overly difficult! I first went to a vintage store to find the right leather jacket. I then bought three belts and cut them to fit on the front of the jacket. Once the belt piece were hot glued on, I then spray-painted the whole thing yellow … Read more
After brainstorming for hours and being drawn to my favorite 90s characters, it finally hit me what would be the perfect costume; Lola Bunny! I was absolutely obsessed with both Michael Jordan and Space Jam. I felt a special connection with the sassy Lola and decided to get to work. I used a boys’ football … Read more
My boyfriend (Ethan) and I (Amber) are HUGE Halloween fans! We love to go all out for our costumes and knew that we had to come up with something over-the-top this year! I was inspired by a Matt Valentine character on an episode of Face Off, and we created an Ice Cream Man and Candy … Read more
Calling All Octonauts To The Launch Bay, Peso, Shellington, Dashi, Inkling, Tweak, Tunip. Hmm, we are missing Kwazii. Where can Kwazii, the silly pirate cat be? Sound the Octo-Alert because we have found our mission – search the deep blue sea for Kwazii. All Octonauts to the launch bay, it’s time to Explore, Rescue and … Read more
I have a stuffed owl that I named Merlin awhile back, so one night when searching for Merlin on the floor somewhere, my fiance and I began discussing the “Sword in the Stone” movie from long ago. That very night we discovered it on Netflix and decided to be King Arthur and Merlin for Halloween.After … Read more
The phantom specter costume consists of: Black ski mask Black long sleeve turtleneck Black pants Back half boots – (I chose these to give myself more height) Black cape with wine color silk lining – Higher quality cape purchased from ebay = $35.00 White female plastic face mask – ebay purchase = $6.00 White gloves … Read more
The idea for my Dr. Chernobyl costume came from an action figure called twisted oz and the movie Chernobyl diaries the mask is a painting mask modifies with fuel line tubing and led rope light. The side carbon filters were removed and plastic sprinkler tubing was painted and hot glue gunned in its place. The … Read more
My kids decided that they both wanted to have quad costumes, that is, to walk on all fours. I am always up for the challenge, but I worried that I had over-extended myself by committing to two such huge projects, but they jumped in and helped and we pulled it off. The kids wanted to … Read more
As a child, I was never allowed to have the store-bought, flavor of the month, costume. My mother said it would be impossible to tell me apart from the other hundred “He-Man” wannabes. I also think it was because she wanted to flex her creativity year after year. I had some of the best costumes … Read more
My 8 year old son William happened to have a 3rd grade book project due a few days after Halloween and since he chose the fairytale “Puss in Boots,” we decided to incorporate it in this year’s wheelchair costume. I started off by getting three-four large pieces of cardboard from the grocery store. The first step is to find the … Read more
This year my seven year old son wanted to be Emmet from the Lego Movie! Finding that costume was going to be totally impossible. I went on total research mode and started getting my materials together. I decided to use as many materials around the house that I could find. I started with the head. … Read more