This year my grandson decided, he wanted us to make our costumes for his school’s annual costume parade. He loves to play with Legos, and spends his free time reading the Lego City books. For his costume, he picked Kai, the red Ninja Ninjago. I was sure that was a tall order for a lego … Read more
I pretty much did this last minute. I begged my son to pick a costume but he was adamant about NOT participating in trick or treating this year, or dressing up (he is 6 years old!). So when he finally said he wanted to be Lord Garmadon from Ninjago (Lego), I just knew i had … Read more
My oldest son dressed as Carl Grimes and wanted his brother to dress up as Daryl Dixon. We did a bit of studying & found most of the items around the house. The hardest part is the Crossbow, but still isnt a terrible amount of work. I made the wings by sewing them on the vest & … Read more
My son Jackson was born loving trains! I’ve never seen a kid so infatuated with one thing in my life! He even talks about them when he’s dreaming at night by saying “All aboard!” or “Daddy, you want to come pway (Jackson’s version of play) trains with me?” When the question was asked about what … Read more
This was a CHALLENGING costume! Ruby Rhod from the movie The Fifth Element. This costume was a doozy! The jumpsuit I made with lepoard printed spandex. I had no pattern so I made the pieces up off the top of my head. It has snap closures which were hand sewn on. The color is made … Read more
We are huge fans of Monster’s Inc. and when the Disney store sold out of the costume size for my son I decides to make his costume and what started as a simple costume idea long sleeve onesie, leggings, and some colored dye well, it became more twelve hours to make his costume hand made, … Read more
My husband was unemployed at the time so I had to be a bit frugal. I bought a yard of flannel fabric for about $4 and used other fabric I had already. I cut the yard of fabric into thirds and sewed them end to end to create one long strip that would be the … Read more
Well my 7yr old son who happens to have autsim is in love with 2 things …The NY Jets and Great Big Pumpkin Charlie Brown …when i asked him what he wanted to be for halloween he said a Jet and Snoopy the flying ace ..so we came up with first a Jets and were … Read more
This was on son in 2012. I decided to do this costume because, again, we were very tight on money at the time. I went into the Goodwill and purchased a pair of jeans that were a little big and a button down flannel shirt. I started by getting my husband to break out his … Read more
This is one of my Costumes for 2013, I made this Cyborge out of thing I found around the house. Like PVC pipe, Old paint can, wires and part from an old computer that was broken. sports gear from a thirft store ect. Wow I have to write 150 words and I only have 53 … Read more
To start we needed a trench coat, so we went to the Salvation Army and got the perfect one for $7.99. Next a big jar of Utz cheese balls did the trick for the jar for the head. Thank goodness we had a handy neighbor who sawed off the bottom for us!! We safety pinned … Read more
After last year’s extravagant robot costume (and lots of whining, tears and bumping into things) I vowed I would never again make my poor son wear another costume that gave him limited sight or mobility.Then Despicable Me 2 came out in theaters and both our minds were changed. He loved the idea of being a … Read more