My son absolutely LOVES Alice in Wonderland right now. So this year he wanted to go as his favorite character: the Mad Hatter. For this costume, I started where I do with every costume: local thrift stores. We purchased pants, an old jacket, a vest, a button-up shirt, a tie, and a blonde wig. We … Read more
My son wanted to be Jack Skellington this year and wanted to make his own costume. My son is four so I knew I was in for a treat with doing most of the work. But I didn’t mind at all we are very crafty people. I started looking up on how to make Jacks … Read more
I love making my own costumes, and with my old wedding dress taking up so much closet space I was looking for something to do with it. I didn’t want to be just a generic zombie bride, but Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride? Now that’s awesome! I used pipe cleaners to create a base for the … Read more
Every year my husband (Mad Hatter) and I (Queen of Hearts) host a Halloween party for our friends and neighbors. I have always loved Halloween growing up and had some really awesome homemade costumes, plus my parents used to build and host a haunted house every year for a local organization. You could say that … Read more
After Seeing Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” in the theater, I knew I had to make a Mad Hatter costume. I didn’t want to do it right after it came out because I didn’t want to be one of twenty Mad Hatters everywhere I went. Also I knew it would take a lot of work … Read more
My daughter wanted a Cheshire Cat costume from The Disney cartoon version of Alice in Wonderland. The costumes you could purchase online were either too babyish or too grown-up sexy for a tween-ager. So I jumped into action! I found it a challenge to create an age-appropriate costume that was really cool. I started searching on … Read more
My son has always been mature for his age. On his 3rd Halloween he kept asking to watch Edward Scissorhands. Finally agreed. Two years later (this Halloween) he asked if I could dress him as Edward. I agreed and here we are. We did a simple black pant and black shirt, added a few studded … Read more
So I decided about a month ago to dress up as Edward Scissorhands for our company costume contest. I began with asking for donations on belts that I could cut up or just borrow. I used black duct tape, Velcro strips, a black jacket, black pants, black boots, white costume make-up, black and brown eye … Read more
My daughter wanted to be Sally from Nightmare before Christmas this year for Halloween. Not wanting to spend $50 on an outfit that honestly was going to fall apart before the end of the night, we set out to make our own. We went to JoAnn’s and picked out 14 fat quarters at $1 a … Read more
Here are some pictures of our Halloween costumes for this year. The Corpse Bride is one of our favorite Tim Burton movies and dressing up like Emily and Victor was lots of fun!! Both costumes were made by us (my boyfriend and I). We hope you enjoy the pictures!
I was getting ready to take a little vacation from work and my department decided we were going to all dress up as Super Heroes and Villans- So I chose a Beautiful Villian! The Red Queen from the Johnny Depp version of Alice in Wonderland. I had a vision and it was going to be … Read more
My family participates in All Hallows Fantasy Faire every year as the court of the Dark Fairy Queen (who I portray). This year my daughter wanted a Cheshire Cat costume, as we had planned on a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party for the children at the event. So, I began to search for striped fabric to … Read more