For the last few years, I have made my own costumes. I like to bring an original twist on any basic theme, such as a mermaid. This year, I decided to be a witch doctor. I Googled a lot of witch doctor themes, and many times Diablo 3 kept coming up. I also looked for … Read more
I had this idea of being the Wicked Witch of the West, which would’ve been fine, but, I figured why not take it a step further. This year, I decided to be the Wicked Witch of the East. Since no one knows what she looks like (other than her iconic ruby slippers), I decided to … Read more
I just turned 30 this year and I’ve always loved the Mario games. Mario is muh jam! Yoshi is my absolute favorite. I wanted to dress my dog up as Yoshi so naturally I’d go as Mario (none of this wimpy Princess Peach stuff for me) and my son would don a Luigi costume. The … Read more
It started with “Book”. I found a hard plastic book labeled “Treasure Island” that opened up so you could store stuff inside. I molded “Books” design with air dry clay, spray painted it brown, used a needle to make holes in the clay to put hemp string through to give it that “dead skin sewn … Read more
One of my costumes this year was The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. I bought a makeup pallet from Party City and painted my face. The colors I used: pink black, and white. A better makeup to use next time would be Mehron costume makeup; the consistency is better and wont fade through the … Read more
I was having trouble deciding what to be for Halloween at work this year, so my daughter came up with an idea of an old lady who has lost her dog. I thought “ok, let’s do it.” We went through the closet and picked out an old lady looking dress, a sweater and some nylons. … Read more
To make my husband’s Grandma nightgown, I took a full size sheet, sewed it up in a nightgown shape, which was a challenging task considering my husband’s size and shape. I attached elastic around the bottom of sleeves, then hot glued lace around the sleeves and bottom of gown. The nightcap is a shower cap with eyelet lace material sewed … Read more
This Beer Can and Popcorn Box couple costume won us first place as “beer and popcorn”. Here’s how the costumes were made” Popcorn Box Costume This was an actual wearable popcorn box complete with a space on top for fresh popcorn. People loved it, eating popcorn from it as they danced the night away. It … Read more
Ursula is one of my favorite female villains characters and one day I was watching the Little Mermaid (again) and it just came to me… I should make an Ursula costume! First I decided to wear a long skirt with a petticoat under it to make the illusion of Ursula sitting on the large stone. … Read more
As we stood in the midst of hundreds of people at the 2013 Halloween festival in my hometown of Elgin, Illinois, watching the annual costume contest unfold on the stage before us, I turned to my family and friends and said, “I’m going to be up there next year.” And, as it worked out, I … Read more
My friends and I are all huge fans of the Netflix show Orange is the New Black. Every year at the college we go to, Ohio University in Athens, OH, there’s a huge block party called HallOUween, it’s the third biggest block party in the country, and everybody dresses up and there are bands and … Read more
Yes, we’ve all done it. A silly slip of the tongue. A brief baring of subconscious sentiment spilling out whatever we were fixated on at the time. Freudian Slips happen to the best of us! As a frequent contributor to this site and yearly winner of the local costume contests ’round these parts, I felt … Read more