My friends and I are all huge fans of the Netflix show Orange is the New Black. Every year at the college we go to, Ohio University in Athens, OH, there’s a huge block party called HallOUween, it’s the third biggest block party in the country, and everybody dresses up and there are bands and … Read more
Kristoff’s costume was made with clearance remnants of upholstery fabric, along with fur trim. Elsa’s was made with the deconstruction of my prom dress that I’d designed and had made 11 years ago, as well as some sparkly sheer fabric, lace, and silver trim. The wig was crocheted. Anna was made with remnants from an … Read more
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you just start running with it! Hence, our Halloween outfits this year. I suppose this idea started a couple months ago. We had a few family date nights where we sat around, ate pizza and watched The Pirates of the Caribbean together. Any scary parts, we’d … Read more
For Halloween 2013, we went as a group of Batman characters. We were (from left) Penguin, Batman, Bane, Two-Face, Robin, and Poison Ivy. We had such a great time putting these together and everyone loved the result! We also created a Batmobile (1960s era) out of our garden cart. It’s made out of cardboard, red … Read more
I absolutely am a huge Batman fan… Like in love with him :) so I thought who else just loves batman and is obsessed? The Joker! So I decided to be the female joker! I love the character, but there are no good costumes out there for women. So I was on a mission to … Read more
First of all I found this site for ideas on making a lego costume and saw this group of lego costumes and thought, hey, I can try this. So, I figured to start a month ahead of time because I would be making 3 costumes. And I picked the minifigures from the Lego Movie….Emmet, Wyldstyle-Wild … Read more
The theme was chosen by Benjamin, my 7 year-old son. Shy by nature and not the least bit outgoing, he takes after his mom, the wallflower! In order to help my son overcome his social anxiety, I’ve been making costumes of his choice and joining in. My thought is this: if his seriously boring and … Read more
Making the Peanuts costumes for our school Halloween skit, I first tried to make the head out of paper mache but the punching balloons kept breaking and it was a messy disaster. So to Home Depot and craft stores I went to see what I could find. After walking around placing items on my head … Read more
My girls have known what they wanted to be for Halloween for almost a year. After 3 weeks of sleepless nights their costumes are finally done! I knew I had make them look legit after the Despicable Me costumes I made two years ago. Seeing how excited they were to wear them made all the … Read more
When starting this costume I was determined to make it a no sew costume let me tell u the hot glue gun became my best friend. I spent about 8 hrs on each costume and less then 40$ each but it was all well worth it. My kids and I could not walk anywhere with … Read more
Everything is AWESOME now that the costumes are almost complete! We just need some minor tweaking so heads aren’t bobbling and feet aren’t scraping the concrete and a dab of touch up here and there from wear and tear. With an average of 30 hours per costume, this was an undertaking I had no idea … Read more
For the Despicable Me group costume we used contractors cardboard cut into giant toilet paper rolls – exercise ball in the middle with foil over it so we could paper mache domes in the tops – yellow paint, then spackle buckets and country crock containers for the goggles (painted silver). Camping mat for the goggle … Read more