My family decided to be cupcakes with my husband, Andy, being the baker. I was set on dressing up our daughter, Lady, in a cupcake costume this year. I started looking on Pinterest early so we could get a head start. I went through the different costume ideas and pick and chose what I liked … Read more
This costume was inspired by other head-in-the-freezer costumes! I love illusion costumes and thought this would be hilarious for an upcoming 10K race. I put together the costume using foam core instead of a large cardboard box as the former would be sturdier; I needed this costume to stay together during the race. It was … Read more
This Grecian heroine was at the top of my list for costume ideas, but I had no idea how to sew a purple dress from scratch and the replica ones for sale are way over my budget! SO, I headed to Goodwill with a few different costume character ideas in mind, hoping to find some … Read more
My oldest son is a HUGE Lego fan. So it was a natural choice for him to want to dress as a minifigure. Every year our family enters a float in our local Halloween parade. I was beyond excited to create these costumes for my children because I knew it would make them so happy. … Read more
This year, I was determined to actually put forth an effort on my Halloween Sharknado costume. Now, obviously, my costume was based on the terribly SciFi movies Sharknado and Sharknado 2. And surprisingly enough, the costume came out pretty much exactly like I had pictured it. Here’s what I used for the tornado: Metal Flower … Read more
I’ve always enjoyed DIY projects, but my endeavors have mainly been restrained to the realm of simple items like crocheted scarves or sewing a table runner. In recent years, I started making small home-made costumes for my children for Halloween. Along came the idea of making costumes for my husband and myself. My husband is … Read more
Growing up as a Pittsburgh child in the 90s, the hottest birthday party spot around was “Discovery Zone”, or as we called it, “DZ”. I celebrated several of my own birthday parties and many of my friends’ birthday parties at Discovery Zone, and I have such fond memories of it. For those of you who … Read more
I love going hunting with my dad and being our family is very involved with hunting I decided to make a costume out of it. Instead of going as the hunter I thought I would put my makeup skills to use and some of the branches you can buy at Walmart. I bought some flower … Read more
This costume was extremely ambitious for me, as I have never actually made a costume before. I always just buy them, but there are no good Lego man costumes available, and my son wanted to be Emett! It took a while, and some trial and error. After trips to multiple stores, I finally had most … Read more
When the Lego Man movie came out, I knew right away what my next costume was going to be LEGO MAN! I have seen a few really good Lego Man costumes over the years, so I wanted to take it to the next level and add a specialist twist for Halloween, LEGO MAN HORROR VILLAINS! … Read more
I was watching some South Park reruns while researching local Halloween events and became inspired! I decided to make my own costume, modeled after my favorite South Park character: A.W.E.S.O.M.-O! I had no clue where to start but I drove down to my local Walmart to get ideas. They were restocking their aisles at the … Read more
We co-parent my husband’s daughter with his ex girlfriend, so we swap Halloween every other year. The years we get her, she decides what she wants to be and we choose our costumes based on her decision. This year she chose Vanellope Von Shweetz from Wreck it Ralph. Her daddy was Wreck it Ralph, her little … Read more