Introducing “Luxo” the cute and quirky lamp from Pixar pictures. My inspiration for this Pixar lamp costume came from my grand daughter. Like most young children, she loves all things Disney. But, she gets obsessed with one or another film or character for weeks. Her latest favorites are the Toy Story movies. However, she gets … Read more
I found it! The “Needle in the Haystack”!! This costume is an idea I came up with for a last-minute and inexpensive costume. The tulle costume have been very popular the last couple of years. I wanted to try making a few different ones. This is a great beginner costume and needs no special skills or … Read more
This adorable scarecrow costume was one that I put together last fall for my grand daughter’s first trip to the pumpkin patch. The costume consists of a tulle petticoat over a seersucker yellow sundress. I made both the dress and petticoat, but a dress from a thrift store would work just a well. To fashion a … Read more
Behold! This is my fantasy shaman costume that I wore to the 2014 Bay Area Renaissance Festival. This is the second costume that I’ve put together. What is it made from? This costume was made almost entirely of scraps and scrounged items. The leather armor is somewhat hardened (through boiling) and backed with fake fur, … Read more
My 5 years old son wanted to be a robot for the Carnival. So, I and my mother started to work on the costume. I love recycling, so the basic idea was to collect old boxes and reassemble them together. I started looking on how to make a robot on internet, but the main problem … Read more
My 9 year old’s school was holding a “World book day” costume day and my son, Thomas, wanted to be completely different! We chose to do “Charlie Brown”. He wanted to have the biggest head ever, so, we went to Rhyl, a small seaside town near us, as that was the only place to buy … Read more
Meet Crossie and Belva. Don’t you just love old people? I volunteer at a boarding school and was honored to meet two of the sweetest old ladies. At their advanced age they have truly learned the value of visiting the children at the local school. They enjoy speaking with the kids telling them all about … Read more
Scooby Doo and the Gang!!! Our challenge was to find all of our items second-hand and/or really CHEAPLY! We spent about $10 a person not including wigs. We wore our costumes for a church trunk or treat …everyone loved them! Scooby was made by my 13 year old son with very little help from mom. … Read more
Sharknado. Is there anything else more to say? This costume was devasting on all levels. Let’s start with the costume idea: I saw Sharknado over summer and I was thinking..this is brilliant! Sharks…tornado..SO CAL..does it get any better?! Then comes Halloween and I had to think of an epic costume and thought of the summer blockbuster..sharknado! … Read more
Back in June 2012 , I attended the Joliet Illinois Public Library’s 3rd annual “Star Wars Day.” Part of the fun that day was a charity raffle drawing for a Tusken Raider head display, with proceeds going to purchase toy gifts for some local sick children. Earlier that day, I had ran into a friend … Read more
Here’s my Dragon Trainer gone wrong costume. I had other costumes in mind this year and even started them but was watching “how to train your dragon” and it came to me, what if it went wrong and the dragon didn’t like their trainer. So I decided to make a shoulder dragon that moved and … Read more
My husband came up with the idea of the Minifig costumes. Only he didn’t have any idea what I was going to do with them. I bought my supplies, the cement cardboard cylinder, Styrofoam, yellow spray paint and the extremely hard to find Styrofoam sealant. I blended my time between my son’s costumes and ours. … Read more