My daughter is wearing this Medusa costume. She wanted to be something or someone scary for Halloween. So after some thinking we came up with Medusa. For the costume we used black leggings (which I pulled fishnet hose over and spray painted green to make it look like scales), black combat boots, black fishnet gloves, … Read more
This is 3 month old son Collin. He has teamed craziest longest hair for such a little guy. It always sticks straight up in the air and one day I thought it looks like he was struck by lightning. Further thought made me think, hey, that would be a great Halloween costume!!! So here is … Read more
Starr Waters is the next Cookie Lyon from Fox’s Empire. The costume was selected because I love Cookie. The entire outfit was created by me, mom, Cindy. Cookie’s dress was inspired by the outfit in the poster. The poster was created using Powerpoint and I had blockposter create the block poster, which I printed out, … Read more
Here’s a pretty Peacock cat costume I made for Sophie, our 4 year old rescue kitty. Sophie is very outgoing and has no problem wearing hats or costumes. She loves attention and so I thought why not try to make a pretty peacock costume for her to proudly strut around in that would match her personality. … Read more
I could have gone out and bought a costume, but I always encourage my boys to be creative and use their imaginations. We had an extra cardboard box available, and decided to use it for this year’s Halloween costume. After searching the Web for ideas, we decided to create a vending machine. I started off … Read more
I wanted to make something unique this year that I’d never seen before – when I first thought of a fry truck costume, I thought it was perhaps a bit odd, but ran with the idea! “Chips” and “Buds” are our kids nicknames, they call french fries “chachas” (from when our girl first started talking) … Read more
This Pedestrian X-ing morph suit costume was inspired by the fact that I am a single parent of two lovely boys . I was driving one day on my way to pick up my boys from school when I noticed a Teen and his 4-5 year old sibling trying to cross to the other side … Read more
I wanted to make fantastic glow in the dark costumes after discovering EL (electroluminescent) wire. It’s cool to the touch and bends and shapes easily. So I researched how to solder and connect it, then began my project. I bought simple robes for my husband and myself and made them into the basis for the … Read more
Thinking back I’ve alway enjoyed being creative, I would make all kinds of gift baskets, Holiday Christmas and Thanksgiving wreaths were a few of my favorites. My children and I would always look forward to Halloween even now with them and their children. I was never keen on buying costumes for them amd they couldn’t … Read more
I decided to cosplay with El Chapulin for the first time this year, so what better place to do it at than at New York Comic Con 2015! I put the costume together using: Red compression pants/shirt Red short sleeve t-shirt Yellow shorts Yellow converse sneakers w red laces Cincinnati Reds fitted hat For the … Read more
Here’s how I made my Christmas costume – A Tree Angel on a tree! I started with an old flower girl dress that was floor length. Then, turned up the bottom so the skirt was half the length and hand stitched a few spots. I took some thin rope light and hand sewed it to … Read more
Here’s my two year old toddler butterfly costume. She is on an animal kick right now and one of her favorite “animals” is the monarch butterfly. I thought that it would be cute for her to be her favorite “animal” for Halloween. Materials used for the Butterfly costume. Tulle (orange, black and yellow) Sequins (orange) Glitter (orange and … Read more