Ok, so my girls challenge me EVERY YEAR during Halloween. I love a good challenge. My oldest wanted to be a FOOD VENDOR at a ball game….REALLY?! So this is how I did it… CAP: I got a white cap and sewed red strips on it. DONE CAP. T-SHIRT: I got a white t-shirt and … Read more
I’m always looking for unique costume ideas for my kids because the thought of the same old plastic, cheaply made store bought ones give me the willies. So when my daughter wanted to be something scary but not too terrifying I went for one of the characters for the movie “The Birds”. This costume cost … Read more
My boyfriend and I were brainstorming costume ideas a week before Halloween. We wanted to go with something Nickelodeon themed but we were torn between a few good ones. We found a collage of all the 90s-00s cartoons and I saw that Cosmo and Wanda from the Fairly Odd Parents had some of the most … Read more
When our 2 1/2 year old son said he wanted to be Bumblebee for Halloween, we knew he didn’t mean of the pollinating insect type. We had recently been to the Indianapolis children’s museum and he was taken with the large autobot that graces the main entry of the building. I have so far refused … Read more
My son is the product of a quick-witted father and a fairly creative mom, and unlike his Halloween costume, he typically lives in the realm outside the box. His Halloween costumes evolve from spontaneous spurts of ingenuity, blasting out, it seems, with the Halloween haul of one year until the nick-of-time-October of the next. From … Read more
Ok, being an 80s kid I obviously picked this Beatlejuice costume for my 3 yr old but I did make sure he was prepared, the week before we watched movie and cartoons over and over. This costume cost me a total of $3.99! I purchased a toddler tux at a local thrift shop (had been … Read more
“I want to be a toolbox,” said our then 2 year old son. Not just any toolbox. He showed me a picture in a catalog. He had to be a Craftsman toolbox. Just like the one in the catalog. I am not super creative, so I had to think about it for a few days. … Read more
Meet my “Big Helper”. Recently ,I was having a battery problem with my car and I had my big helper with me when I got he idea of making a Little Mechanic costume for her. I had made an overall for her for another costume I was working on ,but I thought I could use … Read more
Say Cheese!! This is an idea I had for a costume after attending a cople of weddings this past year. Photo booths were hugely popular. I got a kick out of seeing even the most conservative adults enjoying the experience. This is a great no sew costume that cost very little and requires no special … Read more
The theme was ‘Blast From the Past’ the setting was the Franz Josef Glacier Guides 2013 Christmas Staff Party. And I was flat broke. Franz Josef is a tiny tourist town of 350 permanent residents on the West Coast of NZ. As Australian native, I moved there in 2013 to work on the glacier as … Read more
Howdy! Check out our little cutie in her homemade child cowgirl costume. Most little girls are animal lovers. Our little girl especially loves farm animals. I wanted to make a cow, but instead of a cow I decided on a girlie cow. I found the hat, boots and clothing all at the thrift store. It … Read more
I made this easy costume – a tree costume – for my son’s poem contest. At first, I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do… Since the tittle of the poem is The Little Plant, I thought of making a seed costume, but I changed my mind and thought that it would … Read more