Homemade Maleficent Goes to the Prom Costume

Homemade Maleficent Goes to the Prom Costume

The inspiration for this costume happened to coincide with my 25th High School Reunion. We all decided we really wished we could do a “prom do-over,” because, well, we all remember prom. When the last Maleficent film was released – a story of the sadness and rage that drives this dark fairy who never got … Read more

Haunting Headless Girl Costume

Haunting Headless Bride Costume for a 9-Year-Old Girl

Here’s the creepy headless girl costume I made for my nine year old daughter who wanted to be something different for Halloween. We searched around online to come up with ideas and started to notice that we liked the idea of a headless costume. There are a number of headless brides costumes online, but we … Read more

Last Minute Super Original DIY Connect the Dots Costume

Last Minute Super Original DIY Connect the Dots Costume

This year, I didn’t have the time to start weeks ahead to attempt an elaborate and detailed costume. With only three days until Halloween, I had to think of something that would be easy to pull off, but would still stand out. Something simple yet better than putting a bed sheet over my head and … Read more

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

I love shopping at our local second hand stores for items I need!  I can usually find everything I’m looking for.  This is were I found all the clothing for our costumes including yellow shirt/purple pants for Ferb (just had to hot-glue on finishing touches on the shirt), striped shirt for Phineas and skirt/shirt for … Read more

Coolest Lego Lord Business Costume

Coolest Lego Lord Business Costume

To make this Lord Business costume, I mainly used cardboard to craft the helmet and shoulder pads (as we call them). I looked at the actual Lego pieces and came up with some dimensions that would fit my son’s head. Then, I crafted shapes out of cardboard and glued them together. I used painters tape … Read more

Coolest Robin Hood Prince of Thieves Costume

Coolest Robin Hood Prince of Thieves Costume

Since Halloween and the Renaissance festival occur at the same time around here, and we had just read Robin Hood, my 8 year old decided he wanted to be the famous outlaw for both events. This was my first real sewing project besides some pillows, so I was pretty nervous. The pants and shirt are … Read more

Supervillainous Magneto and Mystique Costumes

Supervillainous Magneto and Mystique Costumes

This was the first year we decided to do a couples costume, so we wanted to really knock it out of the park. All we wanted to do was have fun, but when we put on our Magneto and Mystique costumes last night, we were shocked by how great they came out and decided we … Read more

Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

After watching the most recent X-Men movie, I was completely in love with the character Mystique and decided I had to be her for Halloween. I googled Mystique for days and scanned through 100s of pictures to find which ones I would like to use for my Mystique costume. I also looked at other peoples’ … Read more

Special Homemade Voodoo Doll Costume

Special Homemade Voodoo Doll Costume

Hello Halloween friends! :) I absolutely love Halloween. Actually, I live for it! Your love for Halloween always comes through the amazing homemade costumes you make and wear. This year, I was a Voodoo doll. If you have extra time and patience, this costume is easy to make. I got really good feedback on this of … Read more

Coolest Split Personality Costume

Coolest Split Personality Costume

The idea for this split personality costume was totally unrelated to costumes all together. A couple of months ago, I was having a conversation with a colleague about two-faced people. People that “talk out of both sides of their mouth” and that contradict themselves regularly. Sometimes you can’t tell if they mean to be so … Read more

Coolest Kwazii Octonaut Costume

Coolest Kwazii Octonaut Costume

Calling All Octonauts To The Launch Bay, Peso, Shellington, Dashi, Inkling, Tweak, Tunip. Hmm, we are missing Kwazii. Where can Kwazii, the silly pirate cat be? Sound the Octo-Alert because we have found our mission – search the deep blue sea for Kwazii. All Octonauts to the launch bay, it’s time to Explore, Rescue and … Read more