My son Jace has always loved dressing up. He saw the old Spiderman movie with Dr Octopus and immediately said he wanted to be him for Halloween. I did some research online and since he is not the most popular villain character to dress up as, I decided I would have to make it for … Read more
I am wearing my costume. I got the idea from the movie Tron. I wanted a full body suit and lights that actually light up like the ones in the movie Tron for my costume. I used four 30 foot battery operated neon blue LED lights, a Nerf gun, a bodysuit, a corset, white spray … Read more
My husband Floyd is wearing this awesome Electro costume we made together. Halloween is our favorite holiday, so we thought for months how we were going to make this costume work and make it glow. We got the inspiration from the new Spiderman movie where Electro is introduced in the series. We used a motocross … Read more
I always loved Halloween, but was never someone who put countless hours into a costume. One year I decided I wanted to go full out since some good friends of mine were having a party. After a few days of research, I decided I wanted to be Mystique, from the X-Men series. My friends thought … Read more
I have been making my own costumes since high school. About a year and a half ago, I discovered Pepakura (papercraft files). At that time, I was trying to make The Dark Knight suit. I didn’t think that I could do it, but I just dove in. I shocked myself by making the suit. I … Read more
Last year I was SHARKNADO. It devastated the party and caused chaos and mayhem that lasted days. This year – the zombie apocalypse was in full effect. I never thought I would like The Walking Dead but once I started watching it this past summer, I was hooked! I decided to be Daryl Dixon from The … Read more
This year, my boyfriend and I embarked on a couple costume adventure. The most entertaining one was the bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein. Using the cut off bottom of a soda bottle, I was able to bring my blonde hair up to a ridiculous height. A lot of Bobby pins, spray color and patience went … Read more
I started this homemade zombie costume with a suit from the Thrift store, brown shoes and white shirt. I ripped out pieces from the suit. I then added details with fake blood and red paint. I added moss to the shoes and different parts of the body. I then used a plastic bone that I … Read more
First of all it took 3 weeks to convince my friend to do this creative paint work on me, I had to go through her mom to convince her to do it and finally 5 days before Halloween my friend called me and told me we would do it or at least try. She is … Read more
This Halloween my little brother and I decided last minute we would team up and be The Joker and Harley Quinn. I decided I would make everything, from the big hammer Harley carries to the green tie the Joker wears. I started with my hammer, which took a few days to make due to letting … Read more
Most of the work I put into this costume went into the design and fabrication of my Monster puppet with moving eyes and mouth. The hardest part i would say was by far getting they eyes to move the right way. I probably went through 4 different set ups before I finally settled for one. … Read more
Happy Halloween! This whole process of making the Mystique costume took about two month of prep work and eight hours the day off. I started with a few picture of Mystique’s character and with clay molded the small scales and spikes on as best as I could to copy the images. This was super tedious. … Read more