My costume was inspired by my love for sunflowers. Being in college, I didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a pre-packaged costume (some of them run about $40-70) so I had almost given up on dressing up at all for halloween. I remember my friend told me that I remind her of … Read more
The mention of the letters V-B-S causes me to break into a sweat. No, it’s not because of the throngs of exuberant children running amok throughout the church, nor the exhausting “daily-ness” of this event. It’s more to do with the question, “Will you dress up as one of the characters again this year?” In … Read more
I am a preschool teacher at a hospital child care center. Every year my class and I dress up in our costumes and go Trick-or-Treating throughout the hospital. I love Halloween and I love dressing up for it even more! I get so excited about dressing up that I start looking for costume ideas in … Read more
I have always made my own costumes. When I was growing up we never bought costumes we always made them. I was inspired when walking through a craft store looking at Halloween decorations. I was immediately struck by this cute boy and girl set of Scarecrows. This was the first year that I was with … Read more
Autumn? Tree Nymph? Mother Nature?!? OK I still don’t know what I was, but it was awesome regardless! WELL… this was my costume that I wore last year. It was awesome!!! everyone loved it! The weird part was the vision came to me in a dream…. yes, that’s right… A DREAM!! I am a bit … Read more
My daughter wanted to big beautiful butterfly, so we got at the sewing machine and paints and got to work. Used newspaper to make a pattern to cut the wings out evenly. Used a purple silk doubled to get it a little more stability. Used paints for the wing designs. Used a headband for the antennae.
This Gnome illusion costume caught so much attention. Doesn’t take much to assemble it. A few items from your local thrift store, some felt, a swim noodle, safety pins,your time and a whole lot of hot glue! Use the swim noodle to construct the shape of the mushroom. Add your felt by wrapping it under … Read more
My boyfriend and I wanted to do something that was different than the traditional costumes that you purchase at the Halloween store. We both grew up watching Bob Ross paint and still make jokes about happy little trees to this day so when I got the idea for this costume he was all for it. … Read more
After thinking up the Bee Keeper and Bee costume, we spent only a few hours and about $10 putting the plan in action. Bee Keeper costume included 1 $5 painter’s coveralls from Home Depot, a borrowed safari-like hat and some fabric that mimicked mosquito netting from Wal-Mart. The bee costume was a bit more difficult. I … Read more
This past Halloween I decided to be a tree. Then, I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to be a tree that had been toilet papered? Many of us have been either on the giving or receiving side of that classic high school prank. My family’s house and trees were toilet papered once (to both my horror and … Read more
It wasn’t horribly difficult for my stepdaughter and I to make this walking tree costume. The hardest part was finding the box that was big enough. We found a thin piece of metal that was sturdy enough to keep the round shape and used that at the top and stapled it to the box. Then took a … Read more
I love to play on words! I found a bee costume at the thrift store, it was missing parts so it was really inexpensive! I picked up some fishnet tights and a pair of Tinkerbell wings (clear). We had so much fun making blood with food coloring, coco powder and corn syrup! Simple putting it together! … Read more