I came up with the spider bride Ideas for this years costume. After searching high and low it was hard to find the costume I had envisioned for this idea. So I took a little from this costume and a little from another costume and put it all together. My biggest problem was I blended … Read more
I started out with foam sheets and glued together with a glue gun. Cutting edges and rounding it out. I used foam squares and glued on top. Added green felt all over and used green, yellow, red and black spray paint to give it a scarier look. Added black mesh to the front and then the … Read more
Clockwork Droid, from episode “Girl in the Fireplace” The mask used to be a V for vendetta mask and has been turned into the droid style, porcelain, victorian mask. I used air drying clay to reshape the features, paper macheed over top to hold the clay in place, crackle paint over that then dabbed with coffee to … Read more
One of those costumes that ensures you can’t have fun at a party, but oh so worth it to be the ultimate spooky icon. Made mostly of kappa board and lollipop sticks, plus more hot glue than anyone would consider reasonable. The haunted house features the creepy girls from The Shining, a ghost-baby party, an … Read more
This project started as our costumes always do: what would best fit our body types? My husband is tall and skinny whereas I am neither. Given my fondness for churros and the inherent hilarity of food costumes, we chose a state fair theme. A funnel cake was chosen as a good shape and fun costume … Read more
Every Halloween I make a homemade costume for myself and any of my boys that request one. I’ve done it since I was a little kid. Last year, my boy asked me to make him a costume that required stilts. I wanted to utilize the stilts again for this year’s costume and waited for an … Read more
This is my interpretation of Angelina Jolie’s character in Maleficent. This revamp of the classic Sleeping Beauty moved me so much I just could not help but to channel my inner Maleficent. I absolutely love that this film changes the way women are interpreted in movies so often to feel we must be ‘saved’ by … Read more
Halloween is the best holiday there is in my opinion! I love making my costume every year and going as all out and festive as possibl. This year was way harder than it has ever been, there are so many creative options for amazing homemade costume, but then I finally came to my drea costum, … Read more
The best part about this costume was making it with my kids! We saw this machine at an amusement park we went to and thought what a perfect idea for a costume! We used a lot of card board and tape. My daughter is an artist so she painted the wall sconces and the words … Read more
Our neighborhood is great on Halloween. Every year even the parents dress up. So I decided to make my costume this year. I went to the store and bought black material and black Burlap and borrowed a sewing machine. I decided I was going to be death! Not just any old Death, no. I went … Read more
My daughter wanted to be a beautiful character. The idea of being Maleficent made her so excited! She already had the awesome green eyes so we knew it would be a perfect costume for her! For the robe, we used suede fabric and free hand cut the shapes we needed and then took an old … Read more
Why isn’t Halloween a national holiday? It needs to be so people can be off work and have more time to don their awesome costumes! I love Halloween and mainly doing my makeup. The past several years I was a zombie and it was cool, but after seeing Freak show (Season 4 of American Horror … Read more