Cool Nightmare Before Christmas Costume: Oogie Boogie

Cool Nightmare Before Christmas Costume: Oogie Boogie

I made this cool Oogie Boogie Nightmare Before Christmas costume for my boyfriend for Halloween and we were really happy with it. A group of us decided to do Disney villains and he decided straight away he wanted to be Oogie Boogie from Nightmare before Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas costume took about 2 weeks … Read more

Cool Christmas Costume Idea – An Angel on a Tree!

My Little Christmas Tree Angel Costume

Here’s how I made my Christmas costume – A Tree Angel on a tree! I started with an old flower girl dress that was floor length.  Then, turned up the bottom so the skirt was half the length and hand stitched a few spots.  I took some thin rope light and hand sewed it to … Read more

Realistic Sally Costume from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Realistic Sally Costume from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Ever since its release in 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas has been my favorite movie. From the movie’s unique claymation style to the intriguingly bizarre storyline, this movie is well-known by most for good reason. Duplicating Sally’s image was definitely a challenge (that lasted many hours, especially mixing enough paint to cover my entire body … Read more

Lady Oogie Boogie Costume

Lady Oogie Boogie Costume

I’ve always love dressing up as villains, and what better villain to be than the iconic Oogie Boogie costume! “And if you aren’t shakin’ Then there’s something very wrong ‘Cause this may be the last time now that you hear the boogie song.” I wanted to do a feminine twist on the character so I knew … Read more

Awesome Nightmare Before Christmas Group Costume

Awesome Nightmare Before Christmas Group Costume

Like a snowflake tumbling down a hill, it gathers more snowflakes until it becomes a big beautiful snowball. Cosplaying The Nightmare Before Christmas started for us as a single snowflake. The love of cosplay began long after the love of the movie, it just seemed fitting that they become one someday. As little girls, dress … Read more

DIY Sally Costume from Nightmare Before Christmas

DIY Sally Costume from Nightmare Before Christmas

This Sally costume was originally a thrown together, not quite last minute Halloween costume. I loved it so much though, that the next year I put more work into it. I reworked parts of the dress, which literally was pieces of clothing and scrap fabric haphazardly sewn together. I used a comfortable Tee that was beginning … Read more

Great Nightmare Before Christmas Group Costume

Great Nightmare Before Christmas Group Costume

We always enjoy Halloween. This year we decided that we would do Nightmare Before Christmas and our son would be Sam from Trick r Treat I did Oogie Boogie (my Husband, Troy) first, he is really just a large stuffed pillow from burlap. I sewed the arms on and put foot holes in the bottom. … Read more

Homemade Halloweentown Sora Costume

Homemade Halloweentown Sora Costume

The would-be (if I ever had the time or money) cos-player in me approached this with a sense of… well let’s be honest, I put it off till the last possible second so that I had no choice but to approach with the sense of I gotta get this done!. My boyfriend is a big … Read more

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween Costume

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween Costume

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween, by Erin Pegram. What a Grinchy trick! Just when you thought that the Grinch grew a heart, well, Christmas presents are one thing, but candy is a different story! The GRINCH’s heart was pounding the beat of a different tune, “Maybe Halloween isn’t all about the screams, maybe perhaps, it’s … Read more

Coolest Tim Burton’s Sally Costume

Coolest Tim Burton's Sally Costume

We always have a themed Halloween party at work and we REALLY get into it! This year’s theme was undead/living dead. And since I’m not very good a scary, I thought I’d do something cute. I immediately thought of Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas because she is such a recognizable (undead) character and wouldn’t require much … Read more

Coolest Oogie Boogie Costume and Baby Sally Doll

Coolest Oogie Boogie Costume and Baby Sally Doll

We named our daughter Sally, after the character in the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. My plan was to dress up in an Oogie Boogie costume and carry her around not only for Halloween, but a horror convention as well. My first problem was that there are very few homemade Oogie Boogie costumes to buy and the … Read more