Fun Beetlejuice Family Costume

Fun Beetlejuice Family Costume

My family loves Halloween and finding costumes that all relate to one another (Alice in Wonderland, super heroes, policeman and prisoners, etc.) Beetlejuice seemed like a tough one but awesome family costume to try to pull off for 2014. Barbara and Adam (my husband and me): I asked a sculptor friend to help me with … Read more

Best Tim Burton Maitlands Costumes Ever!

Best Tim Burton Maitlands Costumes Ever!

I’m not a professional costume maker. I’m a self-taught artist/sculptor that uses my craft to bring my favorite director, Tim Burton’s characters to life. Beetlejuice was the perfect choice for this year because I had a lot of materials lying around the house that would work perfect for building it. I want people to feel … Read more

Adam and Barbara Maitland Couple Costume

Adam and Barbara Maitland Couple Costume

Here are our Adam and Barbara Maitland couple coustme: Adam: 10 Styrofoam balls, a Styrofoam cone, one glove, bicycle helmet with holes in the top, wire, tape, hot glue gun, cardboard, paint, black see-through fabric, toothpicks and pape mache. In order to make his costume, I first started by taking the cone and fitting wire … Read more

Most Adorable Beetlejuice Toddler Costume Ever

Most Adorable Beetlejuice Toddler Costume Ever

This is my 3 year old braelyn and her crazy wiry hair inspired my husband and I to have her be beetle juice for Halloween. I bought a white toddler tuxedo on eBay and then used painters tape and fabric paint to create the stripes. Followed by painting her face white and black and using … Read more

Fun DIY Beetlejuice with Shrunken Head Costume

Fun DIY Beetlejuice with Shrunken Head Costume

I try to come up with different things every year. This year I came up with Beetlejuice and shrunken head. The Beetlejuice was the less difficult one but the shrunken head was a challenge; but I love a good challenge. Our costume was a hit at the Halloween costume party. We felt like celebrities with … Read more

Cool Homemade Beetlejuice Costume

Cool Homemade Beetlejuice Costume

First the hat is a bucket and a hat/umbrella that I reinforced and painted. Yes, those ridiculous hat umbrellas I got five for ten bucks on EBay. The carousel – added some LED lights and used pipe cleaners as the poles from the carousel, skeleton ornaments, wire and a whole lot of duct tape. The arms … Read more

Ultimate Beetlejuice Sand Worm Puppet Costume

Ultimate Beetlejuice Sand Worm Puppet Costume

This year I decided to pay homage to everyone’s favourite Bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice. My goal with any costume I make is to do it differently than anyone else has ever done it before. I decided on the basic idea on the drive home from last year’s Halloween Contest. This costume features a kickable leg, a Sand … Read more

Cute DIY Beetlejuice Costume for a Toddler

Cute DIY Beetlejuice Costume for a Toddler

The cutest Beetlejuice you’ve ever seen. I uploaded Hunter’s picture on Facebook and within 20 minutes had over 400 likes and 70 comments on “how adorable”, “how creative”, and how I needed to enter him into a costume contest because he would win. He’s even got the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice saying down! As lil man’s … Read more

Easy Beetlejuice Costume for a Child

Easy Beetlejuice Costume for a Child

Ok, being an 80s kid I obviously picked this Beatlejuice costume for my 3 yr old but I did make sure he was prepared, the week before we watched movie and cartoons over and over. This costume cost me a total of $3.99! I purchased a toddler tux at a local thrift shop (had been … Read more

Cool DIY Beetlejuice Costume – The One and Only Taxi Driver

Cool DIY Beetlejuice Costume - The One and Only Taxi Driver

There are a lot of Beetlejuice costumes around, but I have never seen Taxi Driver Beeteljuice from the graveyard, so when my husband said this is what he wanted to do I was pumped! I love a challenge. Finding the right materials with out all the spending is my favorite part. So I went to … Read more

Contest-Winning Homemade Maitlands Couple Costume

Contest-Winning Homemade Maitlands Couple Costume

We won three local contests with these masks of the Maitlands couple costume!  Words cannot express how PUMPED I was winning money for something I love to do that cost about $50 total.  I got to pay for super grown up things like tires for my car, student loans, and food! Oh happy day. I … Read more

Born with Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz Character Face

Born with Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz Character Face

Some years ago people wtarting telling me I looked a lot like “the girl from beetlejuice”, Tim Burtons movie… So 4 halloweens ago I ran out of ideas, I really wanted to look like a character and I wanted people to know who I was and not them asking me “so, who are you?” so … Read more