Being a gamer and a fantasy lover, I always dreamt of being an Elf warrior. Head to toe in armor, vicious yet beautiful, the striking features of these mystical creatures captured my imagination from very young. Snoring through my Facebook timeline, reading the usual drama and mundane of people’s existence, I came up one a … Read more
Three projectionists walk into an office. It’s two weeks out from Halloween and my team and I sat around trying to decide if we should dress up for work. Generally it’s not our style because it’s not easy to find things where we live. Because we didn’t think we were that crafty. But one of … Read more
The inside sales managers at Hibu decided to do a tribute to the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Everyone picked their own character and rocked it as “40 Years of SNL”. Isn’t that special? We got motivated with our costumes, pepped ourselves up (although we had to sniff our fingers when we got nervous) … Read more
This photo is of my husband and I (bride and groom), and our amazing neighbors. We were attending a Halloween fundraiser costume party. We wanted to do a group costume as we were all sitting together at one table. While racking our brains for a unique group costume, my husband and I were discussing our … Read more
So our boy loves big hero 6 and really wanted to be his hero Baymax for Halloween. So then the challenge began, hours of researching cosplay techniques and tutorials on how to take a simple foam floor mat and turn it into a shinny metallic looking piece of armor fit to stand the heaviest battles. … Read more
Featuring: King Bowser, Wario the Executioner, Mario the Hero, Princess the Damsel in distress, Luigi, Toad, and last but not least a stuffed Yoshi rug! Everyone reading this knows the best holiday of the year is Halloween! Costumes, decorations, and treats….the Halloween holiday has it all! Over the years I have been a long time … Read more
This was a labor of love! I built this Baymax suit from EVA foam from scratch. I found a 3d render on the internet and imported it into Pepakura. I should note that I have never worked with this medium before! After I printed the template our on cardstock, I traced it onto foam with … Read more
This year for Halloween I wanted to make the new Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. I love the art style and thought it would be a TMNT version that would look good as a costume and while moving (it’s important to be able to dance). I created Raph first (that’s me) and used his patterns … Read more
Our three-year old came up with the idea of dressing up as Animal from the Muppets. Originally she wanted to be what all other little girls her age were going to be dressed up as, Elsa from Frozen. We tried very hard to discourage her from the Elsa costume by given her other ideas she … Read more
My husband and I always try to create our costumes as a couple. We do everything together so it comes natural for us lol. But it does make things a little more challenging. I wanted to create something that would combine the past with the future to keep with the theme for the local contest … Read more
AT-ST, Kevin’s Perspective: With the new movie due out in December my wife and I wanted to dress up as something Star Wars related for Halloween. I initially wanted to dress up as one of the large 4 legged AT-AT walkers but realized that to do it right it would involve 2 people and my … Read more
I went crazy trying to find a group costume. My friends and I had always wanted to try this but, We never thought we could pull it off. The reactions were the best yet. The costumes were actually quite easy to make and people were stopping us all night to take photos and to dance … Read more