Someone-Special
He’s off to see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz! While following the yellow brick road, he passes by an evil wicked witch, a beautiful good witch, a cowardly lion, a scarecrow without a brain, a heartless tin man, and a girl with glittery shoes. And then it happens, another twister! They all get … Read more
The scariest movie of recent times, The Conjuring, based on a true story, features a creepy doll, a sinister monkey, and a bone-chilling music box. Then comes the prequel- highlighting the demonic doll, Annabelle. She writes on walls, turns on the sewing machine and plays records. Annabelle is portrayed as a beautiful porcelain doll turned … Read more
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
This year I decided to dress my son up in a Chucky costume. He loves horror films. I couldn’t find a toddler Chucky costume so I decided to create my own! I purchased the overalls and plain white shirt at Target. I then hand painted the stripes with fabric markers that I purchased at Michaels. … Read more
This Harvey Dent Two Face costume was obviously inspired by The Dark Knight. I kept the outfit pretty simple, just black pants, black blazer, white shirt and a tie. The makeup was time consuming. There’s two ways of doing this. You can apply the makeup straight to your face, straight to your bare skin, but I … Read more
Steps to “Righteous” DIY Ninja Turtle Costume: Leonardo (Blue), Donatello (Purple), Raphael (Red), Michealangelo (Orange) 1. Turtle Shell- We purchased turkey foil pans for $1.00 each and paper mached them to give them a turtle shell look then spray painted them using brown and green aerosol paints. We drilled holes in the top and bottom and each side and … Read more
My husband and I went back and forth one night trying to decide on a Halloween costume for our two year old daughter. We wanted to make as much of it ourselves as we could. What did we come up with? The cutest scarecrow ever! Our daughter loves dressing up in her tutus, which gave … Read more
Each Halloween we try and think of a costume that is spooky in an everyday sort of way. In years past that has included everything from cockroaches to those Crocs shoes. We have always used Dr. Bronner’s soap at home, and have always laughed about how weird the bottle is, so we knew that it … Read more
My roommate and I were trying to think of a costume that you don’t see often. That’s when we saw the nun head piece and thought, “omg how perfect.” It’s a simple costume don’t get me wrong, but it’s funny and sexy at the same time. The reactions we got from people was the best … Read more
Our 4 year old daughter could not decide if she wanted to be Princess Elsa or a Lego girl for Halloween. We decided we would combine the two and make a Lego Princess Elsa Costume. My husband conveniently works at a packaging company, so we figured making a costume based on boxes would be easy. … Read more
My wife saw this costume a couple years ago and we thought it was great. We have triplet twelve year old boys and they like to dress in group costumes. We gathered up old long sleeve shirts, cargo-type pants, belts and boots from around the house and local thrift stores. We used a spray paint … Read more
My boyfriend and I found this great costume idea to look like an old black and white film or picture. The costume was quite easy to put together. We bought cheap clothes that were either black or grey. I had sprayed his hair black and I bought an old looking black wig. The make up … Read more