For Halloween this year I decided to be a peacock and to make my peacock tail. As much as I wanted to go crazy and make it an extended upright tail, I had to be able to fit behind a narrow bar with a few other bartenders. I came to the conclusion that a down … Read more
My six year old daughter designed this peacock costume and created it with the help of mom and Grandma. It was our first attempt at a homemade Halloween costume and was totally worth it. It was actually pretty easy to make and my daughter was able to help with most of it. She is sure … Read more
Lots of fabric, feathers and glitter ! I made the tail using peacocks feather, I used real acrylic paint for my head and face and hot glued a cut up rubber chicken beak onto my face. I went all out and enjoyed every second of it., until it was night time and got cold. I … Read more
These Pink Flamingo Yard Ornaments all girl group costume were FUN costumes to create and to wear. It was a little time consuming finding everything and trying to figure out how to make the beak but I really liked the end product. The cost of the feather boas was pretty pricey but if you have coupons, … Read more
We love the movie Rio… Usually when I make a costume I start out by sketching my idea(s). In the case of this Rio costume I made sketches off of the movie. It took a lot of rewinding to get a good look at what Linda (Blue’s owner) was wearing. The costume had to be … Read more
For my friend’s birthday she had an Alice in Wonderland party since her name is Alice. I didn’t want to go along as something too obvious so decided on being a flamingo and making my partner go as a hedgehog. Flamingo: I started by buying a black tight fitting skirt and 4 feather boas in … Read more
My 2 year old son loves his dog hat, and I couldn’t convince him to wear anything other than his hat for Halloween. I didn’t realize this would be the case until I tried to get him into the outfit I had prepared for him (a dragon costume). So, a couple of days before Halloween … Read more
I saw a cute little girl peacock costume online and decided to make one for myself. I either made or found all the parts at the thrift store (except for eyelashes and hair accessories). All the people that saw my costume said it was the most beautiful costume they had seen. I even got a … Read more
I love Halloween. But I also love money. So when Halloween rolled around my friend and I wanted to see how far we could go with just twenty bucks. Which lead me to the idea. Bucks. Or rather deer. I wanted a costume that also allowed me to paint my face which I had not … Read more
For Halloween, I decided to theme our family as Pirates. My husband and I were dressed as pirates and our 2 year old son was the parrot. The costumes I found were very unoriginal and bland. I decided to take the costume into my own hands and had so much fun doing it! The costume … Read more
I made the tail just as I would a pillow and put elastic straps on it to wear like a backpack. Then I made an awesome tutu and hot glued some acorns to it! I also made boot covers and ears from the same fur I used for the tail. I would wear this everyday … Read more
So, as I started to get to get bigger in my pregnancy, my sister’s boyfriend would jokingly say ” it would be soon time for cow tippin’ ” and would sometimes “moo” at me LOL. As Halloween approached I knew I would have to something, as I always dress up to take my eldest son … Read more