Though Halloween is one of our most favorite times of the year, it can truly be difficult to enjoy in the Midwest. It is cold and usually rainy here in October! You will often find that unless you have an indoor party to celebrate at, your costume is typically buried under several layers of cold … Read more
I don’t know if any of ya’ll have seen or even heard of BBC’s ‘Doctor Who’, but for me it is one of the greatest shows of all time! This British sci-fi show has been running for over 50 years now and is currently one of the most popular TV shows in the US and … Read more
My daughter chose the theme for this year’s costumes. She came up with the Toy Story theme, and wanted my husband to be Zurg, for me to be Jessie, herself as Buzz, and my youngest daughter as Woody. We already had the Buzz wings, but I set out to order the material, and construct the … Read more
This year, my daughter chose the theme, and she chose Tangled as your family costume. I did not have any thing to begin with, but got to work. She picked that she would be Rapunzel, my youngest would be Pascal, my husband Flynn Rider, and myself, Mother Gothel. This was a very challenging theme, because … Read more
We were trying to come up with ideas for a group costume since we are all plus size we wanted to look cute and a little sexy but still be covered up. We chose the Troop 69 theme. The boys borrowed real Boy Scout troop outfits and then added shorts. For the girls we got … Read more
So this song blew up that summer and me being not afraid of anything took on the challenge of making this costume and wearing it as a big girl with pride. I first bought a skin suit in nude, I will tell you that when I walked out of the dressing room the store staff … Read more
My son loves watching Billy the Exterminator save the pest animals on TV because he doesn’t hurt them, he relocates them. He wanted to be Billy for Halloween…and I thought how am I going to do that? I started head to toes. I found a hat at a local amusement park, I found necklace and … Read more
Each year our family chooses a theme and this Despicable Me family costume was pretty simple! They all got away from me before a picture could be taken…by this time, some of their costumes were starting to shift or come off! A lot of things were found at the second hand stores. The lab coat … Read more
My Whoopie Goldberg in a Hollywood Square was a riot!! Easy to make! Start of with me: bought clothes at local salvation army, painted my face, bought a wig! And there you have it Whoopie!!! The Hollywood Square was just as easy!! Went to Home Depot, bought a garment box, spray painted it black. Bought batter … Read more
My husband always had me dress as something sexy, but sexy doesn’t win contests. This past year I decided to go with a zombie since The Walking Dead was so popular, but I wanted to be unique, I didn’t want anyone else to have anything even close to what I was going to wear. I … Read more
I always liked the look on the destroyer album so on I went with fabrics and papier mache, took me about two months to get it done Do hair on my chest, but I think I got kind of close anyway to the original. The year was 2010 and we went to a concert with … Read more
Last years costumes were a blast! I first had seen this trophy idea done with some high school students and fell in love with it! I knew this was what us girls had to do for Halloween. Our local small town has some pretty competitive Halloween costume contests and we had won the group costume … Read more