To make this seductive Poison Ivy costume I went to Spencer’s and bought a sexy lingerie outfit. Then, I went to a craft store and bought some fake leaves and sewed them onto the outfit. For my back drape I went to the fabric store and bought a velvet sheet and sewed vine around … Read more
I grew up loving the Batman series and always had a vision of my own Batman. People laughed at me first when I mentioned the project but when they saw the final thing all they had to say was LOOK OUT IT’S BATMAN! Well, I wanted to have armor pieces so I purchased a football … Read more
So here it is… The Joker. For starters, I look nothing like him, other then having a narrow face. I am in the Canadian military, so no long hair for this guy. Also, did this all by myself, no woman or someone else knowledgeable with makeup helped me out. I got an amazing reception for … Read more
I spent a total of $16 and 3 hours creating my costume. I “borrowed” the idea from an image I found on Pinterest. I used my green skirt from the previous year’s Girl Scouts costume (also homemade) and scoured thrift stores for a tee of the same or similar shade. The black shirt also came … Read more
This year our girls wanted to be superheroes… with a girly twist. We had seen this on Pinterest and set out to work. I made tutus for each of the girls, cut out the shirt logos of felt and used fabric glue to attach to their shirts. We added some leggings, sparkly boots, eye masks … Read more
This Halloween I created my first couples costumes! When my boyfriend and I first met this year we bonded over our love of video games. Together, we would play the villains and superheroes fighting game “Injustice.” After playing for a while we realized that he looked like the Joker! So, we came up with the … Read more
I first purchased a green bustier on eBay for $7. I then went to a fabric store and purchased 2 yards of fabric for the skirt $2. I also visited Michaels arts and crafts for the leaves, and some green glitter spray paint. I spray painted just a few leaves and sewed them onto the … Read more
I just take a old red t-shirt an cut off the sleeves, take another t-shirt but green and cut the sleeves and put them in the red t-shirt, I bought yellow and black fabric for the coat, belt, wristbands. Cut all the pieces, sew them and ready to go. The most difficul part is pick … Read more
This is my last minute women’s Harvey Dent/ Two Face costume. The hair was the easy part, I have asymmetric hair and so I pinned the shorter side into a quiff and kept it pinned down. The other side was sprayed with grey colour spray and left in its natural curly and unruly state. The … Read more
So it all started one night in June… I was mindlessly wandering through Pinterest and I started to think about what I should be for Halloween (big jump… I know). I asked my boyfriend if he had any ideas, to which he stopped playing his Batman game on the Xbox and thought for a second: … Read more
Two words…Theatre Bizarre. If you haven’t heard of it, get to google quickly or better yet, come experience it for yourself. This infamous Detroit Halloween party is one that inspires greatness. The party is now hosted in the historic Masonic temple and draws over 3,000 party-goers who spare no expense in bringing their imaginations or … Read more
Heroes Among us! These are my four kids, at the time I made these costumes they were ages 13,10,9,4. Everyone of them had their own ideas of what characters they wanted to be, I had the task of creating them. I first started with the one that would take the most time which was The … Read more