Original DIY Costume Idea: Whac-A-Me Arcade Game

Original DIY Costume Idea: Whac-A-Me Arcade Game

This year my 10 year old is goin tdresses up as a human version of the whac a mole arcade game. He is whac a me! I used a box and painted it, cut some holes in and printed out pictures of my sons face. It was pretty fun and easy to make. We absolutely … Read more

Funny Homemade Minions Couple Costume

Funny Homemade Minions Couple Costume

The boys love Dispicible Me and me being a designer, I thought it would be cool to make them costumes. It started with poster board and paper mache $155.00 in materials later I have some cool costumes the boys just love and can’t wait to go trick or treating.

Coolest Mad-Hatter Costume for a Tween Girl

Coolest Mad-Hatter Costume for a Tween Girl

My daughter is a huge Alice in Wonderland fan. Last year, she had her heart set on being the Mad Hatter for Halloween.  Most of the costumes she liked were a little too grown up, and the others were just too commercial. Instead we found this pattern and she helped make it, along with her … Read more

Best Homemade Wolverine X-Force Costume Ever!

Best Homemade Wolverine X-Force Costume Ever!

I made this costume for my son, Isaac he is 9 years old and loves all of the comic book super heros, This year he wanted wolverine, I made him a Batman last year that was pretty great so I had to up the ante this year on this wolverine costume. I wanted the claws … Read more

Homemade Cleopatra Queen of the Nile Costume for a Girl

Homemade Cleopatra Queen of the Nile Costume for a Girl

This is my daughter Kylie. She wanted to be the Queen of the Nile. This costume started out pretty simple to make. It took me about 7 hours to make it. Towards the end my sewing machine stopped working properly. That’s the worst when you are making a costume that’s completely made by sewing!! I … Read more

Awesome Homemade Alien Xenomorph Costume for Halloween

An Alien Xenomorph Invades Plano, TX!!

Here’s how our homemade Alien Xenomorph costume came to life. My son Joshua has always had a fascination with natural and fictitious creatures like Dinosaurs and Dragons.  His love of scary monsters evolved to the creepiest monster ever featured in movies: The Alien Xenomorph in the Alien films.  He has had an intense fascination with … Read more

Beautiful Homemade White Satyr Costume for a Girl

Beautiful Satyr

Here’s the story behind our beautiful Satyr costume. We always make my daughters costumes and try to top ourselves the next year. This year my daughter actually wanted to be Poison Ivy which I was pretty excited about, but, my older daughter  wanted to be a centaur for Halloween. We were not sure how well … Read more

Coolest C3PO and R2D2 Star Wars Couple Costume

Homemade C3PO and R2D2 Couple Costume

Here’s the story behind our C3P0 and R2D2 Star Wars couple costume. I always wanted to be C3PO or R2-D2 as a kid for Halloween. Now with the help of my wife, I am able to live my childhood dream through my two boys. Our Star Wars couple costume project took about a month (a few hours … Read more

The Grinch that Stole Halloween Costume Idea for a Child

The Grinch that Stole Halloween Costume Idea for a Child

My son has always been creative in his choice for Halloween costumes…thinking if he can think it mommy can buy it/make it for him. As well from the age of 1.5 years his most favourite movie ever was The Grinch that Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey version) so not surprisingly he wanted to be the Grinch when … Read more