My costume was Harley Quinn. I researched her character for awhile before starting on her and channeling my character for the big night. She’s a playful person who’s in love with the Joker despite their many shortcomings. Not to mention the fact he repeatedly tried to kill her, but she always falls back in love … Read more
My best friend was having a superhero bachelorette Party in Vegas. I wanted something more accurate then the ones they sell at the store. For this women’s Riddler costume I ended up ordering a men’s blazer and turned it into a vest. I got the hat and added question marks to the vest and hat … Read more
4 Elementary School Teachers by day, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by night! My colleagues and I go to work every morning, thoroughly enjoying what we do. We try our very best to inspire each and every single one of our students, each and every single day. We might not get it perfect each and … Read more
Even though Wonder Woman is a very popular costume, I knew that no one would have one like mine. I throw a Halloween Costume party because I love costumes. Costumes are voted on by categories in our contest. My friends could not believe I made every part of my costume and were raving about it all night. … Read more
Rowan (2 1/2 years old) dressed as AMCs The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon. We have spent the past couple of weeks catching up on the show and my son sits contently and watches with us. He loves zombies! That’s when I got the idea to dress him as Daryl Dixon. First things first – find … Read more
I wanted to try my hand a creating a decent Scarecrow from the Batman Arkham Asylum games. I started with stripping the leather from 3 different leather couches. I wanted to keep the build as low cost as possible. The mask is made using Crayola model magic and bandages that I had painted on using a … Read more
The actual Catwoman costume costs over $50! So instead, I wore a pair of everyday-wear black leather leggings and a corset to match. The gun holster was supposed to be for my whip, but it wasn’t able to hold it so it’s going to hold my keys and my phone instead on Halloween night. My … Read more
My son chose The Thing costume from Fantastic Four. This year’s costume theme was superheroes. My 4 year old son had to think long and hard to pick a superhero he didn’t already own a “dress-up” outfit of. Every year I make our own costumes and this year would be no different. At first I was extremely nervous … Read more
To make the full body Mystique costume took over 36 hours. What I did was buy the blue body suit and then I applied navy blue acrylic onto the blue body suit and started designing each of mystique’s scales. Every single scale that appears on the costume was hand made. After that I used blue … Read more
Here’s my Thor costume, a one month experience at building armor for the first time. I made this Thor costume because I enjoyed the fact that the latest incarnation of Thor was a female. The idea of Thor becoming unworthy to wield his own hammer was interesting to me, and was excited when I saw a … Read more
Believe it or not, this costume was something I had dreamed of doing for a very long time, being inspired by its many variations and the original costume worn by the goddess herself, Lady Loki in the Thor and some Avengers comics. When making this costume, the sewing part was easy and gluing the 10,000 … Read more
I made this for my daughter for Halloween, she was so excited to be a part of what I do. I made her suit out of 5 mm foam and detailed it with a hot knife and rivets. So, I was making a suit for my son and she had no idea of what she … Read more