I make my kids their costumes every year. This year’s theme was something creepy and they decided on dolls and I got to thinking Ventriloquists!! They loved the idea and I went with it. They were both pretty easy. For her dress I used black and white gingham fabric and some lace and a big … Read more
The idea for this doll costume came after I found a really cool makeup trick that involves painting your eyelids to look like doll eyes, and slowly the character evolved. I took a simple black dress and painted the thread marks, bought striped socks and sleeves and then mary jane shoes at Goodwill. The puppet … Read more
Here’s the story behind our scary doll costumes. I received a message from my sister asking if I could come up with a fun theme for her and her friends to use. After some thought it grew from a fun group costume to a large scale costume that grew and grew! I have always loved … Read more
I’m a hard rock heavy metal music fan. I always loved Maria Brink from “In This Moment” and their Beautiful Tragedy Album Cover. When they first started out she wore baby doll dresses to all her live shows. So that was my inspiration. After it was done I was also told I looked like the … Read more
Although this creepy ghost dolls costume took all day it was definitely worth it! It was sad not being able to go out and show the world our costume but it was fun to creep our family out. Must take advantage of having a twin!
I’ve made a creepy doll costume for Halloween. The costume is made by a purple skirt and black blouse and for the make up I used lighter foundation, white eyeliner under the eyes to make my eyes look bigger like the doll’s eyes. I outlined my new eyes with liquid black eye liner. I also … Read more
I started my doll costume ideas with a simple ruffled dress I had in my closet and an apron in my kitchen pantry. My husband had a suit pants, a vest and white shirt, then we added a red bow tie. The magic is in the doll costume makeup! All white face, black eyes and … Read more
I know most people agree that dolls and clowns, although originally made to be fun and happy, are pretty scary. That’s obviously why they get used in horror movies so much. Well, this Halloween I decided I’d run with the scary horror movie creepy doll costume concept. I first started my doll costume by gathering make-up ideas from looking … Read more
This costume was all last minute! I rushed over to the second hand store and found and old baggy nightgown in the women’s department, then sprinted back home to start my masterpiece! First I changed the length! Then fixed the size and altered the bust! Added some elastic inside the waist line so it looked … Read more
It started off me collecting boxes from the warehouse at my job. I got an idea of a doll box and went with it.I started making the coffin shaped box to make it creepy and saw that there is such a thing as the Living Dead Dolls and so I went with that idea I created … Read more
I love Halloween; it’s probably my favourite holiday. I agonized over what my costume would be this year. I knew I wanted my costume to be gory, I wasn’t interested in being cute— it was Halloween after all. Three days before Halloween, after a lot of searching, I decided to go as a Coraline-inspired creepy … Read more
Me and my fellow co-workers worked for 4 days putting our “Dollhouse” together! It took a lot of hard work, but it was so worth it. We glued paper sacks together to make our roof. I was able to borrow some antique dolls from my husbands grandparents which absolutely made the whole project!!! We used … Read more