Since this is my son’s first carnival I thought to make a costume for all of us. I created Mario’s pizza, a familiar pizza enterprise. What is a better solution than a pizzeria since we are Italian? To create this costume it took about two hours and we used materials we had in the house. … Read more
My husband had the great idea that we would be “The Incredibles” for Halloween last year. The idea was perfect. My hubby being the big, bulky, former college football All-American would make a perfect Mr. Incredible. I suppose the only trait I had in common with Elasti-girl was being a mom of 3. Our daughter … Read more
This Lobster Dinner family costume was very simple to make and got lots of laughs. We dressed up our 10-month old baby as a lobster. The base of the costume for her is a pair of red pajamas. I used foam paper to make crustacean claws and stripes across her belly – just used tape to … Read more
This Pest Control family costume had many parts to make, but was worth it. First, the central part – the young mouse caught in a trap: The baby is affixed to me using a gray Moby wrap baby carrier that I borrowed from a friend. To make the trap, I took a big rectangle of foam … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. It usually takes two to three months of sewing and assembling and raiding of the second hand stores to find what we need. This year, our favorite movie was How to Train your Dragon. We decided this year to be animated characters, just a little bit harder … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. This was the year for the Night at the Museum Characters (taken from both movies). Our costumes were made out of inexpensive fleece found at our local Wal-Mart. Where we live, it is usually cold on Halloween and I didn’t want anyone wearing coats over their costumes. … Read more
These costumes were sooo easy to make and we got so many compliments, it was sooo worth it! I simply bought white fabric (you can use old white linen) for each one of us. For my younger daughter I folded the fabric in half, cut a hole for the head and glued gold fabric I … Read more
Every year we (I) make our own costumes, I think they are the best and people always stop to take pictures. Last year I decided we should be Potato Heads. These Mr., Mrs. and kids Potato Heads costumes were very easy to make but time consuming. I got us all brown fabric for the body (which … Read more
My wife (real wife, not only mummified wife) and I dressed up as Mummies from this year Carnival parade as part of our neighborhood theme Egypt (we participated in Ispra, Gavirate and Laveno Italy) plus image of the kids and friend costume that I made for the same events. Artistic wise both masks were made … Read more
Here is my Baby Girl and I for Halloween this year. I found a few vintage dress patterns from the 50’s to help lay out her dress. And on my jacket, I got a white tux and taped out some stripes and just painted away. Lots of fun , and everyone around us kept stopping … Read more
For Halloween 2011, we did a Peter Pan theme. We were Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Lost Boy Skunk, Chief Eagle Feather and Wendy. We also made a row boat to cart around the boys, our stuffed Tick Tock Croc, and our “treasure.” I made the costumes and my husband created the boat. He … Read more
This homemade Peanut Butter and Jelly family costume first started when I purchased this store-bought Wonder Bread costume for my youngest son (in the center). I wanted his two older brothers to have something that “complimented” the theme. The inside frames of the costumes are both pop-up hampers (the Jelly one was hemmed up for … Read more