My kids decided on our family costume theme, and we went with it. My daughter’s costume “tooth fairy” was the most difficult. We spent days finding just the right feathers for her head piece. We made a mold of her head with fabric and duct tape and then paper mached it. We added several layers of … Read more
Last October, my sisters and I decided we wanted to go to Salem, Massachusetts to celebrate Halloween. It was a few weeks early, but we were told that everyone in Salem was dressed up, all the time – so why not? We were looking for costumes that were easy, warm, unique, and that worked together … Read more
Like a snowflake tumbling down a hill, it gathers more snowflakes until it becomes a big beautiful snowball. Cosplaying The Nightmare Before Christmas started for us as a single snowflake. The love of cosplay began long after the love of the movie, it just seemed fitting that they become one someday. As little girls, dress … Read more
With the help of a glue gun, thrift store and a little from Amazon, we were able to create fun and not so common Halloween family costumes. I bought the wigs and plastic hand from Amazon. I found the dresses at goodwill for 1.xx. I cut and hot glued a cut up white shirt for … Read more
My friends and I went as some of the popular characters from Adventure Time! We made our costumes from scratch and some base items. I was Breakfast Princess. I sewed the pancake skirt completely from scratch, and sewed the embelishments onto the toast shirt. The headband and belt were made of felt to resemble bacon. … Read more
Every year we participate in an area costume contest, individually, and lose to a family group. We decided to have some fun losing by doing our own family group, but on the cheap side. Brainstorming during a power outage, as we played Clue, we hit upon the perfect idea. My eldest daughter already had a … Read more
Ever since we saw the movie Despicable Me 2, I wanted to dress up as the characters as a family. Not only because it’s a great movie but my kids are, seriously, minions. And my youngest daughter, Keren, is totally the evil minion. For a few months she started growling- it was so funny – … Read more
Every Halloween I try to top the costume my husband and I did the year before. I’m finding it’s getting more and more difficult! This year, however, we had to come up with something with three since we added a baby to the mix. :) In the past we’ve done Venkman and Zuul from Ghostbusters, … Read more
Our Treasure Trolls group costume was such a fun costume to make and wear! It was actually pretty easy also. We got nude color leotards and nude skirts and tights from a near by dance store. The Treasure Troll wigs we ordered from Amazon and they came in very quick! We also went to Walmart and … Read more
Carnival in the south of Holland, 2014. After the previous year with an excellent result of the Simpons Family costume, the expectations of my participating friends were high. This year I went for The Addams Family. Quite a risk as it is not as well-known in the Netherlands as it is in the USA, I … Read more
I’m from Holland so my English isn’t that great, I’ll have a try though. When I first thought of creating the Simpsons family I got inspired by all the DIY costumes here. Since DIY is the only way for me, I mixed all the ideas and created my own. I started with Yellow: Luckily I … Read more
Let me start by saying that there aren’t many options for a five-boy group costume unless they are open to being a boy band or something like that. With that being said, our options were limited. Since all the boys are athletes and basketball tryouts were right around the corner, The Harlem Globetrotters seemed very … Read more