First the hat is a bucket and a hat/umbrella that I reinforced and painted. Yes, those ridiculous hat umbrellas I got five for ten bucks on EBay. The carousel – added some LED lights and used pipe cleaners as the poles from the carousel, skeleton ornaments, wire and a whole lot of duct tape. The arms … Read more
I absolutely am a huge Batman fan… Like in love with him :) so I thought who else just loves batman and is obsessed? The Joker! So I decided to be the female joker! I love the character, but there are no good costumes out there for women. So I was on a mission to … Read more
First of all I found this site for ideas on making a lego costume and saw this group of lego costumes and thought, hey, I can try this. So, I figured to start a month ahead of time because I would be making 3 costumes. And I picked the minifigures from the Lego Movie….Emmet, Wyldstyle-Wild … Read more
Here’s my El Chapulin Colorado costume from bottom to top. I bought used Chuck Taylor’s off of EBay for $10. I painted them with spray paint. I then order a red body skin spandex suit. I had the hood removed and the heart and letter put on by my mother. I did the wings on … Read more
Football gear…check…Te’o jersey…check…fake girlfriend…double check! As you can see not much involved to put this costume together. It didnt hurt already having the same skin tone as the original guy either. Didn’t win any awards while wearing this in Vegas but took soo many pictures with random people that Lennay and I walked away feeling … Read more
I am a mechanical engineer by trade and am lucky enough to work on the Curiosity Mars Rover project! My love of Mars and technology runs deep and I could think of no better way to honor that this Halloween than with a Marvin the Martian inspired Halloween costume! Planning Once I had my muse … Read more
As my son Aaron grows older his costume ideas have grown with him. This year will be his last at his current school and he wanted to go out in style at the school’s annual Trunk r Treat event. He searched the internet for ideas and found a number of basic costumes, and then found … Read more
When my 12 year old son asks you to make him a costume, I knew it would probably be the last year he would ask me so I went all out. The head is actually an umbrella hat and the costume us made of car interior headliner. After searching for yellow headliner, I found that … Read more
Spiderman has been my inspiration ever since I was a little tyke. I borderline model my morals after him. I exercise to get as close to doing what he can do, and I’ve always wanted an awesome Spiderman costume. Problem is, all the ones I would see online were uber expensive. At the time I … Read more
I really wanted to create a costume that was well known, fun, something I like, comfortable, and allowed me to use a carrier. We were decided between pokemon theme or nightmare before christmas and the pikachu was just too irresistable! I started out by heading to thre thrift store. I found a red “days of … Read more
Out daughter informed us that she wanted to be Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen for Halloween, so naturally I began to browse the options online for costumes. Many of them were poorly crafted and looked nothing like the actual movie’s costumes! I decided that our little ray of sunshine would have nothing less than … Read more
I decided to do Oscar the grouch because i had seen many different types of costumes for him. I remember watching Sesame Street and thought it would be a great idea to do. I had seen someone online make a replica of him and thought how hard could it be. 1 month later and some … Read more