Much of our shopping for supplies took place at thrift stores. We shopped around at a few locations to find the correct colors for Jon’s pants and shirts, and the orange Garfield hoodie. Garfield’s skirt and tights were purchased new to match the color of the hoodie. A photocopier and fabric paint were used to … Read more
Halloween is our favorite holiday of the year and some of my favorite cartoons growing up are still part of our family’s Halloween traditions today. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special and 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Great Pumpkin. For us, the holidays haven’t officially started until … Read more
This years family costume was a classic take on the Peanuts Gang. My wife and I, along with our 7 children make up the timeless characters.The masks are all mostly made from paper mache. However, we added the use of foam for sculpting some features, and the creation of “Snoopy”. We represent “Pig-pen” Dad (37), … Read more
With the new Peanuts movie coming out, I wanted to introduce my kids to the wonderful world of Charlie Brown. So we watched a few clips on You Tube and they were convinced that this would be a cool family costume. Kevin and Eileen as Charlie Brown and Lucy, Abby (8) as Sally, Ryan (7) … Read more
This year my partner and I made Popeye and Olive Oyl costumes for Halloween. To create the disguise of Olive, we bought a red turtleneck sweater from a second hand store (EstrieAide located in the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec) and removed the turtleneck. I already had the skirt. To create the Popeye costume, we bought … Read more
I had so much fun with this costume! I gathered the materials from wherever I could find them! clothes, hat, sunglasses, Dr. Scholl’s and jewelry from Goodwill, white curly wig from my Halloween bin, coffee cup from my cupboard and some “new things” like sharpies, tape and wire fly swatters for the “card”. Dressing was … Read more
Making the Peanuts costumes for our school Halloween skit, I first tried to make the head out of paper mache but the punching balloons kept breaking and it was a messy disaster. So to Home Depot and craft stores I went to see what I could find. After walking around placing items on my head … Read more
Let me just preface this by saying I’m an avid thrift store shopper. I also love, love, love the wicked, dry humor of the Maxine comics. So who wants to be a cute fairy or a sexy witch? Apparently not me… Yep I am comfortable in my skin and I went all out to try … Read more
It began with an idea, the idea of a Peanuts gang style Mardi Gras float for the annual Lavonia Mardi Gras parade. The first idea turned out to be “not so smart” as we attempted to make the heads out of paper mache’ over balloons. The balloons burst in our faces, spreading wet, soggy paper … Read more
My 9 year old’s school was holding a “World book day” costume day and my son, Thomas, wanted to be completely different! We chose to do “Charlie Brown”. He wanted to have the biggest head ever, so, we went to Rhyl, a small seaside town near us, as that was the only place to buy … Read more
Well my 7yr old son who happens to have autsim is in love with 2 things …The NY Jets and Great Big Pumpkin Charlie Brown …when i asked him what he wanted to be for halloween he said a Jet and Snoopy the flying ace ..so we came up with first a Jets and were … Read more
This Calvin and Hobbes couple costume was a great costume for my boyfriend and I to don on Halloween and for my boyfriend to try out as his first home-made costume! Calvin (Me): I colored a red shirt with sharpie to make the stripes, wore black shorts and a backpack I already had, and dyed white ked-like … Read more