Every year I wear this costume to school and I have my students dress up like the Whos. In September students young and old started asking me if I am going to wear my costume this year! It has become a tradition at our school. A few years ago I bought three rugs. I sat down … Read more
Our Jack costume came about with my second to oldest 11 year old son going to Disney land this summer and coming back obsessed with Jack. So naturally when Halloween came around he asked his father for a Jack costume. We waited with anticipation for the box but, when we opened it there was the … Read more
We were going to Disneyland for Halloween night and we wanted to make his stroller into something so we decided on the Nightmare Before Christmas and his stroller would soon be transformed into the Mayers car complete with flashing lights, interior exterior lights,”zero” the dog floating along the car, lit up a speaker coming out the … Read more
This year my son wanted to be Jack Skellington from Nightmare before Christmas. For his costume I bought super cheap ($1.50 yard) black and white striped fabric. I sewed simple elastic pants and then used a jacket as a pattern to make his coat, adding the tails and lapels. His bow tie is hot glue, … Read more
Much time was spent to find the right pieces to recreate the timeless characters, Heat Miser and Snow Miser couple Halloween costume from The Year Without A Santa Clause. We settled on shinny spandex pants at the base and found red and blue thermal shirts for tops. The tops were appropriately cut and embellishes, then … Read more
So for once I wanted to make a totally different costume. I usually get into creepy costumes with contacts. BUT unfortunately my contacts ripped *and they are prescribed*. I had to come up with some new. Well I got this idea for a Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween costume one day searching online for make … Read more
I have been wanting to make an Oogie Boogie costume since I one, fell in love with the Nightmare Before Christmas, and two, realized that the only commercially available costume was hideous! I finally set my mind to doing a glowing Oogie Boogie costume this year and I think it came out alright. I used … Read more
This Christmas story leg lamp and fragile crate couple costume was a hit- and it was inexpensive and pretty easy to make. For the crate (easiest of the two) we found a big box (one that seemed long/big enough to actually fit a leg lamp in). We cut out a hole in the top for the … Read more
He is four, and his favorite movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s Halloween time, so he wants to be Jack the Pumpkin King, of course! How can we say no to that? Well, we couldn’t, and we nearly ran out of time figuring this one out! But, we did it, and here’s how we … Read more
In our house we love the Nightmare before Christmas. This inspired me to create new characters for Halloween last year. I looked up pictures of Sally and let my imagination go. First I created my husband’s costume. I took an old suit and hat and my bag of bits and I went to work making … Read more
This was actually not a Halloween costume when we first did it (although later would be one) but an idea for a Christmas Card. It was two days before Christmas and we realized we did not take a Christmas Family Photo and didn’t send anything out. We usually take standard Holiday photos, red dresses and … Read more
The night before our friends’ Halloween party in Cincinnati, we were faced with the expectation of surpassing our previous year’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein costumes. I’d always wanted to use another holiday (particularly Christmas) as inspiration, and this was my favorite TV special. It’s pretty clear from the photo that I spent more time … Read more