My Dad is Ursula?!

My Dad is Ursula?!

Well to begin with this whole process of making my dad into Ursula was enjoyable! My mother and I painted and cut each octopus leg that are made with cardboard. We assembled the legs glueing them to a ski that we painted black. My dad has natural short hair so he fit this character perfectly … Read more

Easy, Cheap and Amazing Little Mermaid Family Costume

Easy, Cheap and Amazing Little Mermaid Family Costume

My Little girl really wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween- I don’t like buying things that everyone else can go out and buy, I love to be original. Mermaid, mermaid I started thinking! What could we all be? That’s it… THE LITTLE MERMAID! The wheels started turning. I knew right away that my baby … Read more

Cool Homemade Costume for a Girl: A Very Determined Little Chip

Cool Homemade Costume for a Girl: A Very Determined Little Chip

Last summer I found some really great fabric on an incredible sale.  It was just the right color to make a “Belle” costume from Beauty and the Beast for Halloween.  This is my two-year old daughter’s favorite princess movie, so I figured it would be an easy sell, and then we could use the dress … Read more

Handmade Beauty and the Beast Belle from Fantasmic

Handmade Beauty and the Beast Belle from Fantasmic

I’ve always been an extreme fan of Disney and the theme parks. My favorite character is Beauty and the Beast’s Belle. She is very graceful, delicate and kind which I can relate myself to her. I’ve seen many versions of Belle’s beautiful gold dress in the famous dancing scene however I have not seen the … Read more

Outstanding Princess Jasmine Costume

Outstanding Princess Jasmine Costume

My daughter Victoria and I worked on this Princess Jasmine costume together. As you can see we covered one of her bras with gathered blue fabric, added decorative trim, attached drop sleeves that I stuffed with some cotton to give it dimension. Bra has a decorative pendent, however the jewel drop is real, Blue Topaz … Read more

Crocheted Rapunzel Halloween Costume

Crocheted Rapunzel Halloween Costume

I really love to crochet, and I also love to wear costumes, so for Halloween 2012 I decided I wanted to crochet my entire costume. Since I’m a big Disney fan, and Rapunzel is my favorite princess, (and also because the wig sounded fun!) I decided she would be my character this year. I had … Read more

Cool Aladdin Riding on a Magic Carpet Illusion Costume

Aladdin on a Magic Carpet Illusion Costume

I got the idea of Aladdin riding on a magic carpet illusion costume after watching a tik tok that my girlfriend showed me and thinking that I could do it better. I wrote down a plan of how I was going to do this. I have an electric longboard and I knew that would be … Read more

Cool DIY Princess Jasmine Costume

Princess Jasmine

This amazing version of Princess Jasmine was created by Maleah’s grandmother. We used turquoise chiffon (6yds) for the over lay of the skirt and part of the top. We used a Satin underlay about three yards. We also topped it off with silver and white lace with a beautiful design on it for the top … Read more

A ride on a magic carpet with Prince Ali? Or is it Aladdin?

A ride on a magic carpet with Prince Ali? Or is it Aladdin?

I was looking for a costume that was a little different this year. My son wanted to do a transformation since I had made princess transformation costumes for my daughter the years before. My daughter wanted to be a princess. After some convincing, my son agreed to do a magic carpet costume if he could … Read more

Easiest Homemade Belle and The Beast Costume

Easiest Beauty & The Beast toddler costume

Since my daughter reminds me of Belle, I decided to make both of us a Belle and the Beast costume. I wanted to make a dress that looked like the one from the original cartoon. I followed a pattern for a princess dress and made adjustments along the way so it would look more like … Read more

Dog and Owner Costume – Handmade Beauty and the… Dog?

Beauty and the... Dog?

This dress was mostly finished a couple years before I thought to make it my Halloween costume, but the addition of my dog Loki’s costume is what definitely brought the heart to this project. Since both costumes are sewn from scratch, they had to start with patterns. I used a commercial corset pattern for my … Read more