Living in a foreign country has always proved to be a bit challenging. It takes much more effort to find what you need to produce a costume then going to your local thrift shop or craft store. Supplies are limited, and finding things that fit you is even more difficult, not to mention the hours … Read more
My girlfriend Faith and I were thinking of a good costume to be this Halloween. The past two years we’ve done pretty creative couple costumes (Annie and Daddy Warbucks one year and Life of Pi the other, one of us the tiger, the other dressed as Pi), so this year we knew we had to … Read more
Sitting at the the bus stop one morning in early October, I asked the kids of any ideas they wanted to be for Halloween that year and I got the usual responses. My son said “I’ll be an army man or police officer”, to which my reply was “no, you’ve already been that”. My daughter said “I’ll … Read more
This is by far the biggest Halloween project I’ve ever undertaken. I gave myself over six weeks to finish it, and didn’t put the final touches on until the day of Halloween. I always try to make my own costume, but it’s usually pretty simple. This year, my son wanted to go as Rocket Raccoon … Read more
So each year I’ve always managed to come up with a super elaborate and detailed costume, and this past Halloween, I managed to out-do my previous years’ costume, and it was a huge hit at every Party I went too. I spent most the time taking pictures with people, and being told how great it … Read more
My family loves, loves, LOVES Halloween. Costume ideas are discussed all year. This year my son decided to be a dragon…not at cute, fuzzy, wings under his armpits dragon, but a D-R-A-G-O-N!! He told me it had to have a frame that he can stand in and control all the parts. After much thought and … Read more
This costume was relativity inexpensive to make but I would put it as a moderate level of difficulty. We always want to outdo last years costume so this year we went with this. We thought it was pretty cool :) It took us about 5 days to complete just working a couple hours a day … Read more
Hello we are the Lujan family. I am Cathy the mommy, I work full time and go to school and have been happily married for 12 years. We have 2 beautiful children. Our son is 10 years old and he has high functioning autism. He is super bright, smart and very loving And he is … Read more
This costume was inspired from a childhood fear. Clowns. The clothing and shoes all came from thrift store. With a bit of cutting and sewing I reworked and added to the all of the clothing pieces. I just gathered as many crazy patterns as I could from the thrift store finds. I scetched up a … Read more
Every year we creative loonies have the challenge of coming up with original and fun Halloween costumes. Once we have children, that tradition gets passed down to them (whether they fully appreciate it or not.) Thankfully, I have a 4 year old daughter who genuinely seems to love crazy costumes, and definitely loves being unique. … Read more
My family loves Halloween and finding costumes that all relate to one another (Alice in Wonderland, super heroes, policeman and prisoners, etc.) Beetlejuice seemed like a tough one but awesome family costume to try to pull off for 2014. Barbara and Adam (my husband and me): I asked a sculptor friend to help me with … Read more
My husband and I still enjoy dressing up for Halloween. We’ve done family theme costumes since having kids(this is our forth year!) My kids(3 and 4) still haven’t objected to my family theme costume craze ideas. I hope to keep this up until they become “too cool” for it! My kids are obsessed with Legos. … Read more