Classic zombies are always fun, right? You know not so gory, very little blood, not too scary, lots of ghoulish fun! A few weeks ago my darling Royce and I went to see the James Brown biopic – Get up on It! Of course he instantly started quoting and reciting verbatim lots James Brown shouts and lyrics. … Read more
A couple weeks before Halloween the fiance suggests we make masks and be the the Maitlands from Beetlejuice. She had suggested this a year or two before and I was afraid of the complexity of the masks, especially Barbaras. This year I was feeling optimistic so I began construction by getting a couple sheets of … Read more
My husband does the best impression of David Lo Pan from the movie Big Trouble in Little Chine, that my kids and I absolutely adore so we both decided it would make an awesome Halloween surprise for our friends and family! These costumes were put together 100% with a glue gun (I do not have … Read more
My friend and I decided to make Bertie Bassett costumes after the licorice all sort sweets. We thought it would be more impressive to have two rather than just one. It took about four weeks to make the costumes and lots of things went wrong but we got there in the end. The heads are … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to be the characters from “Up”. Initially, I was going to be Russell and he was going to be Mr. Fredricksen, but I changed my mind and decided to make a last minute Kevin costume two days before Halloween! A lot of the materials that we used … Read more
Do you remember Rainbow Brite and her Sprite? My sister was dazzled with enchantment with the vintage 1980’s animation and the dolls that came with it. I remember her at 5 years old wanting the doll so bad when she tried to convince my parents in her sweetest, kindest, 5 year old voice ” I … Read more
We originally wanted to have a family costume theme in which all four of us would be a Lego-themed family. As it turned out, only two participated in the Lego family which was probably a good thing because we completed the execution of the project within three days. The collection of the items on our … Read more
Buying a costume can be way too expensive. That’s why this year we decided to do it ourselves and get creative. For the Mario costume I bought Royal Blue high waited shorts from Charlotte Russe. I had an old red tee shirt that allowed me to make the basics of my costume. For the hat … Read more
First we brought orange footed and hooded onesies to create the body. We used orange fleece fabric to connect the body and then applied brown felt to the body to make cat dogs spots. The masks and ears were also made of orange, purple, red and black felt. I printed a photo of their friend … Read more
This couple costume was a very last minute costume (we had no idea what to be). I found an old jumper from the Kardashian winners collection, and stuffed a pillow in the back. We ironed on “I AM A GOD” onto a plain white t-shirt from H&M. We found 2 gold chains from Clairs, and … Read more
My daughters are 9 (Madison) and 2 (Ella) so it gets difficult trying to think of a themed costume idea that would satisfy them both. I had all but given up when I came across the idea of Cruella De Vil (the Cruella I saw on Pinterest was for a toddler but I knew Ella … Read more
It seemed a little ambitious at first to create LED-lit Jellyfish costumes that would be believable and funny, yet cute. But I am so pleased with how they turned out and we really were the hit of the party (many parties) on Halloween. Here’s how I made them: I started by purchasing two felt cowboy … Read more