This year I wanted to be a giraffe, so I began about two weeks before Halloween. I began with using chicken wire as the base of my neck and head. I began with the head first, by bending the wire and tying it to shape the head portion, then shaped the ears and antler as separate pieces … Read more
Since Halloween 2013, I have been creating Neytiri. I was inspired by the movie. I bought a full bodysuit in blue from halfway across the globe and went to town modifing it. I modified the bodysuit by cutting out the chest and sewing in an inner bodylift suit, with bra, to give it more shape. … Read more
My 4 year old really likes the Despicable Me movies, and fell in love with the minions. As soon as he saw the evil purple minions, he declared that’s what he wanted to be for Halloween. I spent a couple of months researching toddler and purple minion costumes until I found one that I liked. … Read more
My kids decided that they both wanted to have quad costumes, that is, to walk on all fours. I am always up for the challenge, but I worried that I had over-extended myself by committing to two such huge projects, but they jumped in and helped and we pulled it off. The kids wanted to … Read more
I have eight year old quadruplets and each year we choose a Halloween costume theme and I make all of our costumes. This year, we decided to do Alice in Wonderland costumes. The Alice costume was a pattern for Alice that I made, no problem; it was pretty easy. The Red Queen was adapted from … Read more
I really loved the character from Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland, The Queen of Hearts. I began a long journey of trying to find just the right fabric to make it a close as possible to the screen version. After a couple of weeks I had not found what I wanted in fabric so I … Read more
My daughter and I love Halloween! This year we decided to dress as characters from the movie Tangled. The biggest challenge was the hair! All the wigs are so thin that they would never work for Rapunzel. We bought a wig to use as a base then added a lot of extra hair extensions. Of … Read more
Well I have to say this was the most interesting costume I have made yet. It took me about two months from start to finish. I went to the good will and bought a wedding dress originally for my daughter five years previous and then bought a mannequin and made the bust out of paper … Read more
OH YEAH! Everybody loves the Kool-Aid Man! I always wanted to make a life size costume version of the Kool-Aid Man and decided this year was the year! Growing up Kool-Aid was one of my favorite drinks and who didn’t like watching the commercials of Kool-Aid Man busting through walls everywhere he went! Here is … Read more
An ode to these mystical creatures of the sea, this costume is an anatomically correct one-of-a-kind, original creation that I invented after an inspiring visit to an aquarium. I learned many fascinating things about seahorses in my journey to create the most realistic representation possible, which proved to only add to the fun. The costume … Read more
I was inspired to do Greta the Gremlin from Gremlins 2 after seeing several costumes online. Once I got the inspiration, my boyfriend and I decided to do it together and make it a couples costume. This is the first time we had done anything like this but we had so much fun doing this … Read more
I always loved the Muppets, so I decided that for 2014 I would make our family the Muppets. I picked the most recognized characters, Miss Piggy, Kermit the frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo the great and one of his chickens, and of course, Animal. I am not a professional, I don’t even know how to read … Read more