I love Sour Cream and Onion Pringles, I will go through five cans every week and a half (I may have a problem), and I got sick of throwing them out when I finished them. So I figured I would start saving them and make something out of them (what, I did not know). I’d … Read more
I work in an office and every year for Halloween we open our doors to children for a few hours at the end of the day for trick or treating. I like to make homemade costumes because it allows me to try to make them as realistic as possible. This year was by far the … Read more
My 8 year old son, Thomas, has Asperger’s and wanted to be something totally different from anyone else! As always, every year, we make a costume rather that get a shop bought one, we like to be unique! He said he wanted to be Frankenstein’s monster. We started by thouroughly cleaning out a car fluid … Read more
After dressing up as random, nontraditional Halloween costumes for the last couple of years (last year I was Raiden from Mortal Kombat), I decided to go for something more oldschool: I chose to transform myself into a mummy. It’s a simple costume, no complicated make-up needed (like zombies and others), and it’s cool. Also, as … Read more
American Truck Repair Express’, LLC Newest Peterbilt Truck In June 2009, my daughter Di’anna, son-in-law Travis, and son Trenton, decided to open a new family business, American Truck Repair, LLC in our hometown of Hendersonville, NC. In November of 2009, my daughter and her husband had a little baby boy, Braxton. Then, in 2013 two … Read more
The best part for me is the end result, how easy it was to put together! Everyone loved it, I painted his face to look more like Einstein eyebrows, mustache and laugh lines, with eyeliner and white Halloween makeup the outfit was a mix and match of things he had in his closet already! Not … Read more
All kiddos can be monsters at times but there is no cuter time than on Halloween. After a monster themed baby shower and first birthday it just made sense to use the theme for Halloween. After searching for a little monster costume that was not overly expensive but still adorable I came up short handed. … Read more
My 14 year old son comes to me and asked if I could make a Mad Hatter costume for Halloween. Sure, why not, how hard could it be. He says “mom you can do it, it will be easy”. First we searched pictures of Mad Hatter, and cost for buying the costume online or in … Read more
My son just turned three and is train obsessed. We live in Boston and a block from South Station. He loves to visit the station to watch the trains and wave to the engineers. When asked what he wanted to be for Halloween he wanted to be “Gordon the big strong engine” not a simple … Read more
Hello. This year I dressed as Mr. Wing (Grandfather), the shop owner from the movie, Gremlins. This costume came to me at the last minute after I’d already searched everywhere for a few months for parts to my other weird costume ideas. With only a week or so left, it was too late to get … Read more
Well, this costume was created because we could not find a tractor costume anywhere ! We had no choice but to make it ourselves. I used a diaper box and painted it, attached straps that were adjustable. We used push on lights from the dollar store that were great while trick or treating in the … Read more
The inspiration for this costume came from Kyler’s current developmental stage. His frequent tantrums, difficulty communicating and complete disregard for manners and cleanliness make him quite the little Neanderthal. The costume itself was very simple to make. A quick and easy pattern with one shoulder out of brown fleece was cut and then sewn. Snaps … Read more