This year my son picked “Hicup” and “Toothless” from the dreamworks movie “How to Train your Dragon”. This one was a doozie. We worked the body again with foam board, sanding and sculpting the lines We made a large square block of foam board from glueing sheets together and forming a square. We sculpted the … Read more
I pretty much did this last minute. I begged my son to pick a costume but he was adamant about NOT participating in trick or treating this year, or dressing up (he is 6 years old!). So when he finally said he wanted to be Lord Garmadon from Ninjago (Lego), I just knew i had … Read more
Codex, a character from the web series The Guild was initially purchased as a licensed “bagged ” costume but was of such low quality that I couldn’t bear to wear it. So I deconstructed the entire thing, threw away virtually every piece of decoration and notions, and rebuilt it using the white material from the … Read more
It all started with a gal who looks a lot like Flo from Progressive. So we added the Geico Money Man which took 8 hours to construct, one package of hot glue sticks and 500 fake dollar bills. Rounding out the team is the not so memorable Erin from Esurance – a cartoon character brought … Read more
A year of planning and two months to put this Roadrunner costume together. It needed to really look like the roadrunner as I am quite a perfectionist and comfy enough to wear for 12 hours. We dress for occassion at work and then it’s trick or trat in the neighborhood. It is never as easy as you … Read more
I was at a Hallowen costume shop, looking for something that I didn’t think many others would be wearing, when I noticed the creepy yet simple, doll mask. I grabbed one up and starting gather other items throughout the store that I thought would look appropriate with the mask. I then found the bouncy, curly … Read more
We go to an outdoor adult Halloween party every year, so dressing warmly is always at the base of our costume ideas. We’ve won the costume contest at the party several times, so we always feel the pressure to create some amazing oufits! Since our 8-year old son is addicted to LEGOs, it was an … Read more
I love family costumes, but found coming up with 5 person costume ideas to be harder than it was when there were just 4 of us. After thinking for a while and surfing lots of lists on line, I started brainstorming things that had the number 5 in them and happened on \”the 5 senses\”!! … Read more
I Found a red rubgy shirt online, and a white bucket hat for Gilligan. Had my friend who’s a stylist trim up a red wig for Ginger! Found a sparkly vintage 1960s dress on eBay, and two vintage hair flower clips. Add some sparkly jewelery and fake eyelashes… Ginger! …..our friend showed up as the … Read more
My husband and I are into karaoke. He was singing the song Fever, and one line of the song was “chicks were born to give you fever,” so I thought of making a chick costume. I made him a chick magnet costume out of styrofoam, and I glued feathers to to ends. His song was … Read more
My best friend and I wanted to have cute costumes this Halloween but we didn’t want to have to worry about running into someone else with the same costume! We did some online searching and came up with the perfect idea: Thing 1 & Thing 2! We bought all of the pieces seperately (wig, sequin … Read more
I love Halloween, and every year, I try to create a unique one of a kind costume that I know will turn heads. This year I wanted to be a comic book character and debated between the usual suspects of “Sexy” Super heros/Villans. I debated between Wonder woman, Poison Ivy and cat woman but felt … Read more