I don’t like to turn down a special costume request…if we can find a way to make it, we will make it! My 8 year old daughter really wanted to be R2D2, the droid robot from Star Wars, for Halloween, but I was worried that she would not be able to move around much. Her … Read more
My 13 year old daughter is 5’10” and still growing. We decided we were going to attend the first ComicCon to come to our town. She wanted to be a woodland elf, like in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. As we started working on her costume, though, she decided that adding a steampunk … Read more
My son loves to zap things, and my husband and I are Ghostbusters fans. So hubby made the proton packs with cardboard file boxes, bits of wire, old speaker tops and water blaster guns. We found beige coloured clothes and I drew the badges from the internet. We had a homemade marshmallow man piñata, and a … Read more
With this Avatar costume not even my friends recognised me! Not to mention the policemen at the boozebus on the way who got quite the shock! As complicated as it looks, my costume was actually very easy and last minute so anyone can do it! I wore blue stockings, a blue crop top, and short … Read more
“I’m a Mog; Half man, half dog! I am my own best friend.” I had a blast putting this together for a halloween contest at work last October. I wanted to be as screen-accurate as possible. Most things came together easy, like the shoes and gloves. Picked up some Converse shoes, colored laces, and finger-less … Read more
Making costumes is a love-hate relationship! I love how much my daughter enjoys and truly appreciates the costumes but I hate the trial and error that comes with the hard ones. Sometimes I wish I had the training to do it right the first time. This year was that year for the hardest costume. The … Read more
My boyfriend and I are really, really into Halloween. We tend to make our own costumes and get super excited about what next year might bring. He has been wanting to do a Star Wars themed Halloween night forever, but to me the obvious Princess/Hans Solo outfits have been done. A summer flu that (obviously) led to a Star … Read more
These costumes are being worn by myself (Female Predator) and my significant other (Male Predator). My significant other has always been a huge fan of the Predator movies. He first came up with the idea to create a Predator costume in 2007, while watching the movie. He literally thought, “why not?” and began to research … Read more
For my Alien costume, I bought a bunch of sports padding, guards and a pair of matching bike helmets at thrift stores. I painted them all to match blue and black. Then I bought six cheap LED necklaces, speaker wire, fish tank air hose and lots of hot glue. I filled a fish tank air hose … Read more
My sister and I were out on a ride and brainstorming ideas for Halloween. We knew that we wanted to do something with our horses and top last year’s costume as Ring Seekers from “Lord of the Rings”. We got to talking about our favorite movie as kids, Planet of the Apes (1968) and that’s … Read more
How I made the costume: I live for Halloween. So for me the process of finding a costume starts as early as November 1. This year I actually did three different costumes. I only decided to be E.T. at the last possible moment. Which adds a element of panic, but oddly enough I thrive on … Read more
Back in the spring of 2014 my 4 year old son brought me the E.T. DVD and asked me if he could watch it. Together we watched the movie and became deeply connected to the character E.T. His love for E.T. was cinched when he saw Elliot introducing Star Wars action figures and during the Halloween … Read more