Funny (and Comfy) Baby Halloween Costume: Hudson the Baby Viking

Funny (and Comfy) Baby Halloween Costume: Hudson the Baby Viking

For Hudson’s first Halloween I wanted to make a comfortable viking costume for him to wear. I decided to crochet the costume but the problem was there wasn’t any patterns to follow for this method so I made it up.  I used gray silver and copper metallic yarn to achive the look of chain maille … Read more

Cool Cheshire Cat Costume for a Hip Girl

Cool Cheshire Cat Costume for a Hip Girl

My daughter wanted a Cheshire Cat costume from The Disney cartoon version of Alice in Wonderland. The costumes you could purchase online were either too babyish or too grown-up sexy for a tween-ager. So I jumped into action! I found it a challenge to create an age-appropriate costume that was really cool. I started searching on … Read more

Awesome Homemade Sandy Cheeks Costume

Awesome Homemade Sandy Cheeks Costume

I worked at Nickelodeon, Singapore so I thought going as a character from the channel might be fun. I decided to go as Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob SquarePants! It is quite a challenge to make her costume, but it was totally worth it. I had a blast and won the best costume. Everybody went on … Read more

Baby Dorothy Costume from The Wizard of Oz

Baby Dorothy Costume from The Wizard of Oz

This Costume was planned to be made before the one wearing it was even here, The Wizard of Oz has always been a very important movie for my family. My Grandfather, Charles Augustus Gischel had a virus settle in his heart, he got on the list for Kidney one and received his heart transplant in … Read more

Homemade Family Halloween Costumes That Take the Cake!

Homemade Family Halloween Costumes That Take the Cake!

My daughters and I love to bake and indulge in treats so when it came time to come up with our annual family costume theme, it was a piece of cake. With a few simple ingredients — felt, foamcore, and a hot glue gun– I was able to whip up our bevy of baked goods. … Read more

Giant Skeleton Victim Illusion Costume

Giant Skeleton Victim Illusion Costume

This was actually a last minute costume. It all started with a failed attempt at making a costume using stilts apperently I do not have balance. So two days before Halloween I searched the house to see what I could come up with.  I used an outdoor skeleton and started to tear it apart. I … Read more

Cool Amusement Park Carousel Costume for a Girl

Cool Amusement Park Carousel Costume for a Girl

My daughter LOVES horses and wanted a horse based costume.   She came up with a Carousel.  Great idea but I was not sure how we were going to bring it to life.  I walked all over Home Depot and WalMart trying to find something circular for the base.   I could not find anything the size … Read more

Cool Homemade Toy Story Family Costume

Cool Homemade Toy Story Family Costume

We dress up with a family theme every Halloween.  This was our best ever.  My three kids, Andrea age 3 was “Buzz”, Charlotte age 7 was “Jessie”, and Molly age 5 was the skinniest “Hamm” ever.  My husband Andre is “Woody”, and our sweet au pair Christin, from Germany, was “Bo Peep”.  But the most … Read more

The Merriest Christmas Story Family Costume

The Merriest Christmas Story Family Costume

This year, I must say halloween was a big success.  We decided just after last halloween we wanted to do A Christmas Story theme and had to wait a whole year to pull it off. We were a little disappointed that many people at our annual church party did not get our costume theme (to … Read more

Cute Hocus Pocus Girl’s Group Costume

Cute Hocus Pocus Girl's Group Costume

I have three daughters; the oldest a redhead, the middle a brunette and the youngest is a blonde. This makes for the perfect set up for Sanderson sisters’ costumes from the movie Hocus Pocus. My husband was Billy Butcherson and I played the part of Binx the cat. I started the costumes by searching Good … Read more

Girl Ninja Turtle Power Halloween Costume

Girl Ninja Turtle Power Halloween Costume

I have always loved TMNT ever since I was a kid, so I thought it was finally time to be a ninja turtle this year.  I’m not sure what motivated me, perhaps I saw a cheesy attempt at a turtle costume and thought I could do better, or perhaps I saw a thanksgiving turkey pan … Read more