Beginning when Asher was very little, my husband would comb his hair in a certain way that he looked just like a little German baby (blonde hair, blue eyes), and we would say “Guten Tag Herr Asher.” We decided it would be only fitting for him to dress up as a “Guten Tag Boy” for … Read more
All my son wanted to be on his 5th Halloween was Loki (the bad guy off the Avengers). He asked me if I could make him the costume but I was far from that ability, so naturally he asked his Nana to make him his Loki costume and of course nana said “sure I can! … Read more
I was invited to a 1980’s themed Halloween party this year. As I am a Bald by choice man, and the 80’s were all about the hair, I was frazzled. Until I remembered one of my favorite 80’s characters..Robocop. I started to look up old photos online, and found that this has been attempted before, … Read more
The base was a re-purposed plain witch dress and some tight fitting black pants. We already had blue shoes to match. Making the rest is where it got tricky! I started with some bee wings and smaller bat wings, plus a wire flower for the tail. I covered both sets of wings with black felt … Read more
My dad, who is a retired artist, loves to go all out for Halloween and create one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes. I told him I wanted to be an emoji for Halloween (he still has no clue what an emoji is) and build me this heart eyes emoji costume out of cardboard and paper. He used an … Read more
This costume started as a totally different idea, so this is how it ended like it is. It all started with a local contest in which kids participate by age group and there is also a category for dogs (super cute!), for that purpose, we decided to made a homemade costume, which initially was though … 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
My friend and I took two big boxes and first spray painted them white, then painted each box accordingly to a nerd box. her half was the pink side and my half was the purple side. we painted them so when we stood together they matched as one. on the side we wrote ingredients and … Read more
The trick to making this costume for under $2 was to plan ahead. My son knew he wanted to be a minecraft character for Halloween because this year he has been crazy about the game so it was easy to choose a costume. We knew back in June that we wanted to do a Herobrine … Read more
My Daughter, Danielle wanted a costume that had a chance of winning her school’s monster mash costume contest and her dad was telling her how he won a contest as a kid when he was a grocery bag. She wanted to see a picture of him but we didn’t have one so we decided to … Read more
This costume is completely handmade from head to alien toe. I used mostly EVA foam and various techniques of paint, sewing and lots of cutting and gluing. This is a completely freehand. I shape the foam pieces by cutting angles into the foam then gluing the many pieces together like a big puzzle. I always … Read more