My husband and I love Halloween. We start thinking the day after Halloween what our plans will be for next year! This Mary Poppins costume was pretty easy to do after finding all the parts ( which was the hard part!) My husband always pokes fun at me for having a “vision”, because I get … Read more
I wanted to find a completely unique and different costume that hasn’t been recreated too much, and my husband and I decdied the marionette get up would be a fun thing to try. I was nervous it would be kind of a boring costume, but once we created the makeup for the marionette doll, we … Read more
Sharknado became one of the most talked about movies of the summer. After I saw it I knew that my boyfriend and I had to create a one of a kind costume for Halloween! I immediately started hunting for Beanie Baby shark toys at garage sales. I also started a stockpile of assorted bags of … Read more
Every family seems to have that one member who can never come up with a costume idea until the last minute. Then when they finally come up with their idea (it is usually unique since they have been spending so much time thinking about it) they have no time to actually make it happen successfully. … Read more
I made it by buying a twin sized flat sheet and cut the top of the sheet off and used those for straps for the dress and cut 2ft across and made the top of the dress and used the rest for the bottom of the dress. I sewd the whole thing together to create … Read more
It all started with me trying to decide what to be. With much deliberation, I finally decided I wanted to be something colorful. Who could possibly be more colorful than the bird Kevin from the Pixar movie UP? No one I could think of! I first found the corset online, and it happened to come … Read more
Jiminy sported a green body suit and velcroed cartoon eyes on the outer part of the mask. A felt mouth pasted on the mask finished the look. Pinnochio secured a long piece of wood with cross members on top and carried the nose for pictures. Many Disney fans enjoyed them!
We decided to dress up as the characters of Monsters Inc. I was Celia Mae, my husband was Sully, my son was Mike and my daughter was Boo. Well we had to figure out how to make my costume and my daughters costume since they don’t sell these. I purchased a large purple puffy jacket … Read more
I’m entering this for my daughter: I’m 11 years old and this is my first Halloween with my adoptive mom and she wanted to make it special for me. I saw a costume for a broken doll and that’s what I wanted to be. My mom said that we could make it and that we … Read more
I made this costume last year, I tried to come up with a costume this year as cool as the peacock but it just isn’t going to happen I won’t be able to out do this costume, I just made a few adjustments and made it a little different this year and it still took … Read more
Every year I try to make a fun creative costume. Being a college student you want to stick out and have something different yet sexy at the same time! So this year I chose Energizer bunny! I saw one on Pinterest and thought it was a great idea so I recreated it and put my … Read more
Every year our school has a Book Character Parade(Kingsbury Elementary, Sumter, SC). We encourage the kids to dress as their favorite book character. My assistant and I teach kindergarten so we are always looking for dual characters. This year we dressed as “The Wild Things” from the book “Where The Wild Things Are”. We dressed … Read more