Each year our family does a haunted house for the trick or treaters. This past year we chose Monsters Inc. Each year the kids suggest this theme but because the costumes are not available we have pushed them towards another idea. I finally bit the bullet and started sewing. After many, many weeks I built … Read more
My husband and I were inviting to a disco themed Children’s Hospital Fundraiser party and he didn’t want to just go dressed in a standard disco outfit. So I came up with the idea of being the Bee Gees and he got 2 of his friends to go along with it. We decided on an … Read more
I always create a fun and original costume for myself every year, but this year I ended up roping the whole family into it. To start off we found all clothing at local goodwills and thift stores. We reviewed pictures and tried to match the costumes as close as we could. We also printed off … Read more
Though Halloween is one of our most favorite times of the year, it can truly be difficult to enjoy in the Midwest. It is cold and usually rainy here in October! You will often find that unless you have an indoor party to celebrate at, your costume is typically buried under several layers of cold … Read more
My daughter chose the theme for this year’s costumes. She came up with the Toy Story theme, and wanted my husband to be Zurg, for me to be Jessie, herself as Buzz, and my youngest daughter as Woody. We already had the Buzz wings, but I set out to order the material, and construct the … Read more
This year, my daughter chose the theme, and she chose Tangled as your family costume. I did not have any thing to begin with, but got to work. She picked that she would be Rapunzel, my youngest would be Pascal, my husband Flynn Rider, and myself, Mother Gothel. This was a very challenging theme, because … Read more
We were trying to come up with ideas for a group costume since we are all plus size we wanted to look cute and a little sexy but still be covered up. We chose the Troop 69 theme. The boys borrowed real Boy Scout troop outfits and then added shorts. For the girls we got … Read more
Each year our family chooses a theme and this Despicable Me family costume was pretty simple! They all got away from me before a picture could be taken…by this time, some of their costumes were starting to shift or come off! A lot of things were found at the second hand stores. The lab coat … Read more
We were all working in the Meat Dept and trying to come up with a clever “Meat Themed” costume we could still work in. All of the stuff I saw online hotdogs and steaks were too bulky for us to work in. So I brainstormed and looked in the closet and was able to get … Read more
Last years costumes were a blast! I first had seen this trophy idea done with some high school students and fell in love with it! I knew this was what us girls had to do for Halloween. Our local small town has some pretty competitive Halloween costume contests and we had won the group costume … Read more
My husband is a bit of a robot, he never cries not even when he watched me give birth to our children. However I made him sit down and watch the movie UP one night and he let the water works flow. I cry everytime I watch that movie but wanted to know what about … Read more
As a group of 7 girls we had a little bit of a hard time finding a group costume that we all liked. Luckily, we thought of dressing as different holidays and it turned out super cute! We tried to use things we already had and only purchased a few things – it was a … Read more