My kids wanted to do these first. For Sandy, I started with mattress foam, then white fleet, and glued everything together. I printed out an acorn and drew on the zipper with a gray Sharpie pen, the flower was printed out too. I bought a pair of gray boots for cheap and just used a … Read more
My two daughters, Audrey and Natalie, are very close with their two cousins, Emmitt & Derek. They play (and fight) together all the time. For at least the last couple of years, they have built and destroyed (each other’s) countless Lego creations. When The Lego Movie came out, that’s all they talked about. They quickly … Read more
My husband and I have always coordinated our costumes and when we had our daughter we knew we had to keep the tradition going. This is our 10th Halloween together so we wanted to do something special: I hand made our costumes! I’m not much of A seamstress so I had no idea what I … Read more
The hardest part of this Addams Family costume was enduring my husband (Gomez) growing a mustache for a month. I was happy on November 1 to say goodbye to that! The rest was pretty simple- his suit was a “fancy gentleman” costume I bought on eBay for under $20. For Morticia I took a long … Read more
I just turned 30 this year and I’ve always loved the Mario games. Mario is muh jam! Yoshi is my absolute favorite. I wanted to dress my dog up as Yoshi so naturally I’d go as Mario (none of this wimpy Princess Peach stuff for me) and my son would don a Luigi costume. The … Read more
We wanted to create a costume that was a ninja turtle costume, but also made a reference to the artist. We thought the best way to do that was to add photos of paintings to the shells. Shirts: We bought green shirts at a craft store and painted them with yellow fabric paint and a … Read more
These costumes were for our school Senior Social, which was a Halloween party for the senior class! We got together as a group and spray painted our sports equipment and clothing in order to make it as gold as can be. Next we painted our bodies completely gold, which took about 2 hours total! Once … Read more
This year our kids decided they wanted to be Koopa characters from Super Mario Bros. Yay, another family theme was born! We decided on Bowser, Bowser Jr., Iggy, Larry, Wendy and Ludwig von Koopa. Our dog was forced to participate by wearing the costume, aka Roy Koopa, for a few minutes for pics. The dog … Read more
I always loved Ernie Kovacs. He had a TV show and was in movies when I was in my heyday in the 50’s. The Nairobi Trio was a group he had on his show, they were three monkeys playing in a band. Sometimes they had secret guests inside the costumes. Frank Sinatra did it once. … Read more
We always enjoy coming up with a family theme for Halloween and all of our family and friends anticipate each year what it will be. This year, it being the 50th anniversary for Disney’s “Mary Poppins” we thought what a wonderful, colorful, and memorable way to celebrate! My mother always makes my son’s and daughter’s … Read more
We Booked our tickets to Mickeys Halloween Party in California. I knew our costumes had to be awesome! So finally we all agreed on the Wizard of Oz. I Searched Pinterest like crazy and finally figured that Tin Man would have his chest piece made of foam. I Started with 4 pieces of foam and … Read more
We wanted to dress our horses up for Halloween and had a couple individual costume ideas floating around, but one day I was browsing facebook and a friend had taken a “What should you be for halloween?” quiz, out of boredom I took it too and my result was “Mario Kart” with a photo of … Read more