Our 3-year-old daughter, Sofia, loves the movie Monster’s Inc. When it is bedtime she hides under the covers and waits for her dad to come into her room and pops her head out and yells, “BOO!” She calls him Kitty, a.k.a Sully, and me Mike Wazowski. People even say she looks like the little girl … Read more
Every year, we look at ourselves and decide what couple we could play convincingly, so our looks will lend to our costume. We were a shoe in for Woody and Bo-Peep. Sick and tired of all of my peers going around in short miniskirts and cat ears, or X-Rated Disney princesses, I decided you could … Read more
My husband and I are always a couples costume for Halloween and each year, we go to Salem, Ma where there is a huge gathering of people who roam the streets all just to show off their costume. Each year, I try to top my last year’s costume and so far, this year’s Slinky Dog … Read more
Woody was easier to make because she already had the shorts, yellow shirt and cowboy boots. The hat, cow print and bandana were purchased at Hobby Lobby. She cut a plain white shirt and glued the cow print on. She also drew the red lines on the shirt with a shirt marker. Buzz was a … Read more
This year I decided to make my 4 year olds Halloween costume. He loves the movie UP and when looking at different ways people have made the costume I decided to being as much as possible from the movie into this one costume. I made the house from foam board and cardboard. The only thing … Read more
Originally I was just going to dress my boy up as the old man from UP. He is 12 months old. Then I thought why not dress him up with his lady friend who is 9 months old. So we added her to the mix as his lady love as little old people and they … Read more
My grandson wanted to be Buzz lightyear and I set out to make him a Buzz different than most Buzz lightyear costumes. I didn’t want it to be just out of material, I wanted to have him feel like he really was Buzz so I decided to make it three dimensional which was by far … Read more
This year I decided to finally create this Mike Wazowski costume I’ve had in my head for years. I was always doodling what I imagined it’d look like and made prototypes to make sure it was made to scale. It is made entirely by hand. It is essentially a nursing pillow with foam pipe insulation … Read more
I had this idea for a Wall-E costume with moving parts for about a year and it ended up being pretty good and winning a couple of competitions. I’ve seen some Wall-w’s on here but none that moved their arms, hands, head and on wheels, so I thought I’d give it a go.. It comes in 5 … Read more
I really enjoy homemade Halloween costumes and this year decided to go with Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. I decided to go with a plain white dress and put a green strappy top over this. So as not to completely ruin both these items, I sewed the top of the green top onto the top … Read more
Well, the idea for the Mike Wazowski costume with Little Sister Boo started months ago. I ask my grandson every year what he wants to be, he told me Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. So I had to make it happen. I started it one month before Halloween. Starting with the shape of the body I made … Read more
This is how I made this Cute Last-Minute Buzz Lightyear Woman’s Costume: Top: Purple sports bra. I used scrapbooking star stickers I found at Hobby Lobby and most stayed the entire night Bottom: I found the shorts at Dick’s sporting goods Boots: I used rain boots and covered them with white and green duck tape … Read more