I used a pop-up laundry basket for the torso of the costume and covered it with a large turtle neck shirt. I stapled the basket to the shirt around the collar and bottom hem, and then stuffed the sleeves with small dryer vent hoses. Then I covered the whole torso with paper mache strips of … Read more
For work we had all decided to dress up as DIsney characters. Naturally with my red hair I chose to be Ariel. I took it a step further and did a slightly “hipster” version of the little mermaid. This cosutme was fun to make and everyone loved it! I already had black booties from Forever … Read more
My son’s robot costume was so much fun to make. First I had to find a box that would fit. I have to confess that I used a beer box for the body – it was the perfect size and it was what we had on hand – yay Sam Adams. I did a search … Read more
I bought a Belle dress and wig. Then I bought a bunch of felt and made an apron out of tacos. I also made a taco hat, which clipped onto my wig. It was very comfortable. I added a crinoline for fullness and gloves to complete the look. The best part was watching people’s reactions.
Fun is in the air as the carousel goes round and round. Phoenix and Gryphon are the carousel horses, ready to take you for a spin. Gryphon is the horse with the lavender mane and tail, while Phoenix has a mane and tail of light blue. Climb onto the horse of your choice, grab onto … Read more
This is what happens when your 11 year old can not choose between two costumes. My son wanted to be both a toilet and his favorite Marvel character Deadpool so we combined them to make this. I used two red turtleneck shirts one for the top and added black fabric over it to resemble Deadpools outfit. The … Read more
When you have 3 little kids, and are chronically underemployed, everything you do has to be low cost and high concept; halloween costumes are no exception. My wife participated in The Color Run 5K a few years back, and it looked fun (except for all that pesky exercise). How could I be a Color Runner … Read more
Courage. It takes courage to be a hero; it even takes courage to be said hero when it’s in the form of a dragon. Like many Game of Thrones fans out there I admire many of the characters on the show but specifically this last season I felt a deep connection with Drogon Targaryen. Sure, … Read more
About a month ago several friends, my wife and I were talking about doing a Halloween party, because it fell on a weekend. We came to an agreement as to what house it would be at, and thank God, it wasn’t ours. I suggested we throw in a cash prize for best costume, to generate … Read more
About two months before Halloween I got this idea, I actually had already bought her a monkey costume to wear on Halloween but this idea was way better and she was at the best age for it to be super cute. I started with making the walker I went to home depot and bought PVC … Read more
After seeing the many Hurricane reporters over the summer I thought that for Halloween I would dress up as a weatherman in a storm. I was thinking this would be very original but after research I found out it had been done before. Luckily the group of people I was around on Halloween found it … Read more
Bradley is dressed as Van Gogh from one of his famous painted self portraits. (We added his bandaged ear to make the reference extra noticeable.) Grace is dressed as Starry Night, one of Van Gogh’s most esteemed paintings. We knew we wanted to do a creative couple costume, and didn’t want to do something that … Read more