My 8 years old daughter wearing a homemade Robot Halloween costume. I made this costume,when the time she liked to join in recycled materials costume in her school.It resulted in winning the competition. She won cosplay champion dress up. For the Robot costume, I used cardboard box for her body and feet. I covered with … Read more
Us girls were at our weekly happy hour, on my deck, brain-storming on what we wanted to be for Halloween. I had a half bag of potting soil sitting near my deck. My husband came out and told my son’s girlfriend she could wear that and be a dirt bag. Well, that was it! We … Read more
As I lay on the floor with chicken wire attached to me, I wondered why I had to choose to become a tornado. Why not something simple, like a cat for instance. No, I was determined to be unique. Judging on how this costume set up was going, if I didn’t come out a whirling … Read more
With all the Batman movies that came out, I decided to play it up a little bit and make the costume sexy but fun. I decided to dress up like the character two faced. I created the bustier, bra, and jacket. The body paint was professionally done. I got a regular blue dish glove and … Read more
This breathing Jellyfish costume was a really easy costume to make. I already had everything at home so it didn’t cost me a cent. I used a see-through dome umbrella for the top, covered with white tulle. The tentacles were made from strips of white fabric. Some of the strips I hand sewed a large zigzag … Read more
Day 1 – decision to be Gir Day 35 – Bought patterns and fabric from local fabric store. I used a general pattern for a dog costume with the green and black fleece fabric. Hot and full of static but oh so amazing! Day 46 – Finally start the cutout of the design and making … Read more
I always wanted to dress up as She-ra. When I was invited to this party I was so exited to make my own She-ra costume (first because I am a set designer and I really love to make stuff, models, costume, props… – and second because I used to live in Brazil and they don’t … Read more
My daughter Victoria and I worked on this Princess Jasmine costume together. As you can see we covered one of her bras with gathered blue fabric, added decorative trim, attached drop sleeves that I stuffed with some cotton to give it dimension. Bra has a decorative pendent, however the jewel drop is real, Blue Topaz … Read more
My daughter Victoria is modelling my interpretation of The Wonder Woman Costume. It was inspired by the original Linda Carter costume with the first eagle. I studied many photos of eagles to come up with my drawing I then separated it into three parts to make the pattern. I used gold lame added some cotton … Read more
This was my Black Swan costume for 2011. After I saw the film I wanted to do the costume and also a lot of people started telling me that I look like Natalie Portman. I already had the pointe shoes and tights. I bought a rehearsal tutu online. Then I bought a zipper up corset … Read more
So, I have always LOVED Kitana! I never even thought of dressing up as her for Halloween since I have struggled with weight loss since I had my daughter back in 2006. Finally, I managed to shed 40lbs and bam! This idea popped up into my head! It was perfect timing too since i wanted … Read more
I live in the UK and teach a nursery class in a primary school. When Comic Relief (a nationwide charity event organised by the BBC) was coming up a teacher at my school suggested we do a sponsored ‘Dress Up from the Neck Up’ to avoid any need for over-elaborate costumes; everyone would just have … Read more