After watching sleeping beauty with my daughter I was inspired to create her costume for Halloween. She is truly evil and has a very unique look. I started with the head piece…I ended up finding the base of it in Las Vegas at the Zarkana show gift shop!! I was thrilled because it had the … Read more
Since we have the perfect body types for Shrek and Fiona the decision for what costumes to wear was easy! A couple’s Shrek costume and Fiona costume. I made Fiona’s dress using a Simplicity pattern, ordered the wig online and followed a tutorial on YouTube with step by step instructions how to do Fiona’s makeup. … Read more
For our second year attending and supporting the local Annual Jacob Soley Jr. Memorial benefit for a needy child we needed to go big. Last year when we attended as first timers it inspired us to be “the Ghost with the most” as Beetlejuice would say, for this year. After looking through our DVD’s, yes we … Read more
I had seen many different types of peacock costuems on pinterest and loved them so I decided to make my own! I bought 20 real peacock feathers, green blue and blue/purple tule, elastic & a black crop top. I made the tutu by just alternating tying on different colors of the tule, which was easy … Read more
I bought the corset and the pants then I spray painted half of it black, I then found the boots in a thrift store and painted one boot red. I bought red and black foam squares and cut diamonds out and glued the red on black and the black on red. as for the giant … Read more
My son wanted to be Atom from the movie Real Steel. I had made robot style costumes before, so my initial idea was to use football shoulder pads like we had used when making him Bumblebee from Transformers. I started browsing craigslist and eBay for any cheap used ones. I came across a used hockey … Read more
The conception overall was pretty easy. I wanted people to recognize the costume as well as wonder where I bought it. With that in mind I didn’t relize just what I was in for. Between numerous revisions, resulting in countless trips to the craft store and looking at all the pictures the web could offer. … Read more
I was inspired to make this costume ever since Halo the video game came out that had a great twist of Sci-fi action. As soon as I saw the big green man, Masterchief, I fell in love of his armor and decided to make one myself. In the process, I reference the pictures of the … Read more
So I’m a 45 yr old KISS fanatic.I eat, sleep, live, KISS. I saw them when I was 13 and that was it. I must of said more than a 1000 time that I wanna be Gene Simmons, “The Demon” and my wife finally said ,” Just do it already!”So a couple of weeks before Halloween my wife and … Read more
This idea came about because one of my graduate school student associations was having a candy apple sale and I needed a gimmick to draw attention and make sells. Just so happens that this candy apple sale was the week before Halloween so the costume could be worn then as well. I had to think … Read more
I absolutely LOVE Halloween. I love it so much that my wedding was on October 30th! This year for our third anniversary we wanted a fun couples costume. I had just been to Disney for the Not So Scary Halloween Party and was inspired by the disney characters. My husband’s only request was that he … Read more
American flag bathing suits from American Apparel were the main inspiration for this costume. We paired it with a faux navy leather shirt, a silver belt, red heels, and silver star earrings. To add the party to our costume we made American party hats by gluing blue stared tinsel around shiny silver party hats, added … Read more