We had a blast as the Jetson family! It’s rare that the kiddos actually want to participate with dear old mom and dad so when I got the chance, I ran with it! Our costumes were pieced together with traditional clothing and embellished. Jane, Judy, and Elroy’s collars were cut from heavy weight interfacing material … Read more
My costume is the armored Batman from the Batman versus Superman movie. My Love for Batman extends all the way into my childhood. Ever since a boy I wanted to become a superhero, fight crime and help others in need. Batman doesn’t have any superpowers but uses his extreme intellect and physical strength to outsmart … Read more
Two weeks before Halloween, my 5 year old son decided wanted to be WALL-E. After searching the Internet for costumes, I decided it was impossible to buy one (as the movie was older) and so construction began. After trial and error it started coming along nicely. WALL-E was made paper mache, cardboard, lots of ductape, … Read more
Our Toy Story costume was a challenge with the time crunch I was given by the creators (my little ones). Luckily we have plenty of craft/sewing/paint scraps from various projects. My girls were bumming about Halloween being cancelled for 2020 where we live, coupled with eLearning daily challenges that have dragged their holiday spirit down. … Read more
I am wearing a suit tarnished with fire (appropriately), clay, and paint. The face was done with prosthetics, glue, and face paint. I did it for a small local party and it was truly remarkable to be taking pictures with people, being sure they got my bad side. I’ve always had an affinity for special … Read more
The inspiration for my scary Mickey and Minnie Mouse couple costume came when I was brainstorming what to be for halloween. I like to take a well-known, usually cute, character and make them scary. While I was trying to think of a character, I saw a snippet of Ratatouille, which made me think of mice, … Read more
This Emperor’s New Groove couples costume is one I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, but I was a bit intimidated by the project and wasn’t really sure where to start. It required quite a bit of creativity to craft a feathered collar and feather plume for Yzma, but I was able to … Read more
Hi my name is Diavion and I chose to do this costume because URSULA is the prettiest FAT girl in the sea, so I thought this would be fitting. #plussizerepresentationmatters I had a BLAST creating this costume and I hope you got a kick out of this like I did :)
Inspired by my favorite Batman Villain “Scarecrow”, When season 5 of Gotham came out they blew me away with Scarecrow’s costume so I decided to recreate my own version. To make the Texas Scarecrow costume I used 3 yards of burlap, 1 yard of brown leather, string, sticks, leather rope, and complete with a custom … Read more
After watching the movie Aladdin, my daughter wanted to be dressed up as Jasmine for Halloween. So we started checking out the costumes for Jasmine. Then we thought why not try to make an illusion costume. Thus we started making this costume. The carpet is made with cardboard and we got a table cloth from … Read more
This dress was mostly finished a couple years before I thought to make it my Halloween costume, but the addition of my dog Loki’s costume is what definitely brought the heart to this project. Since both costumes are sewn from scratch, they had to start with patterns. I used a commercial corset pattern for my … Read more
The wings of this Maleficent costume are cardboard with about a thousand feathers attached with spray adhesive. The shawl was a large piece of fabric and I hot glued on a feather boa.The dress was out of the closet. We had fun making this Maleficent costume.