I am a total geek. I cherish my TI-89 Titanium calculator so much, I decided to be one! The notion came two days before Halloween, so I was scrounging to put this thing together! My mother and I constructed this in the living room using a mini refrigerator box that we had just purchased a … Read more
At my gym I’ve been given the nickname Keyoncé Kutz because I am super strong and love all things sparkly. For our Halloween dress up day I knew I had to come up with something extra fabulous. I initially got my idea from a Pinterest photo of Beyoncé in an awesome bejeweled bodysuit and decided … Read more
Our 8 year old son announce in August that dad and i needed to make a transformer bumble bee costume that would transform. After searching for online plans in vain, we began creating our own design. After many failed attempts we finally found one that worked. Foam core posterboards, 2 rolls of duct tape, a … Read more
How did we come up with the idea for this costume? Jack our 5 year old son is riding his wheelchair Scoop! Jack loves trucks so much. He plays with the truck Scoop every single day. We have lots of photos of him laying on the sofa hugging his truck. His love for trucks is … Read more
While the mama of the family is wearing the costume, the idea came from one of the youngest members of the family, 5 year old Ian. Ian likes to be silly, and he especially loves to make people laugh. He spent a solid week trying to perfect the “handstand”, and he wanted to be upside … Read more
This is my son, Jake. We live in San Antonio and everyone who lives here knows of the local Urban Legand, The Donkey Lady who lives under a bridge and terrorizes anyone who comes near the bridge. The story days that she was burned and resembles a creature that is half human, half donkey. We … Read more
My son, Blake, asked to be a fish tank for Halloween this year. He is a fish hobbyist. He has a 55 gallon fish tank in his room that he loves dearly! I’m sure that is where his idea came from. The Angler Fish was inspired from the movie, “Finding Nemo”. We decided he was … Read more
My daughter Ella loves all things “Under the Sea”, so this year she wanted to go as a Jellyfish! I figured it would be easy to make so we gave it a shot. I got the majority of the materials from the dollar store, because our goal was easy and cheap. And it turned out … Read more
We love Beetlejuice! Harry the Hunter is sculpted by Edward, my boyfriend wearing the costume. He even made the clay used! He sculpted it over a plastic cup! The eyes were plastic ping pong balls from the dollar store. He cut them in half and placed them in the clay before it set. Once dry … Read more
My two year loves to walk around acting like a robot, so when it came time to pick costumes my son thought it would be fun to dressup as a whole robot family. I started with double sided foil insulation. They sell it by the roll at the hardware store. It comes pretty thick as … Read more
I wanted to be a Dalek (an evil exterminating roabotish thing from the British tv show Doctor Who) but the only costume I could find was a dress. The dress was nice enough but it didn’t instill terror in me like a real Dalek. So I decided to build a costume out of cardboard, tape … Read more
Since this is the big anniversary year of Back to the Future, my boyfriend and I decided to go with that amazing theme. It would’ve been easy, and unoriginal, to just dress up as Doc Brown and Marty so we took it to the next level with building a wearable Delorean! The Delorean is 100% … Read more