My daughter, Logan, is wearing this Astrid costume from How to Train Your Dragon 2. It’s her favorite movie character. The Astrid costume is completely home made/fabricated and stylized pieces. She is even wearing a wig that was altered to match the right Astrid shade and braid style. She is a natural redhead, like me, … Read more
Here’s how our Ursula Sea Witch costume came to life. I try to make or customize my daughters costume each year, I love for her to feel special and stand out from the crowd. This year she asked to be Ursula, she loves villains. I found on this website my template and tweaked a few … Read more
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
Here’s the coolest every cat costume featuring Louie, my 5 year old rescue cat. Louie loves to go outside on his leash and go on adventures with me. He also loves to be pulled around the yard in his wagon while he looks around at all the birds. He doesn’t like things on his head … Read more
My son is 7 years old and like most boys his age he loves Legos, especially Ninjago. He asked for the green Lego Ninjago costume around August. I had no idea how I would make it since I have never made a costume before but I didn’t have the heart to say no. I started in … Read more
The Concept: Females are complex creatures, our varying emotions are deep and honest, and we act from our hearts. We protect who we love with out regret, and you can never love anyone if you do not love yourself. No matter how sweet of a soul you are, if you are a lady, you have … Read more
This is a Killer Croc costume I made. My son and I had a conversation back in February ’12 about what costumes we’d like to do for this Halloween. I know.. we plan ahead. He decided that Killer Croc would be the most challenging costume so that’s the one I should do. Also, you really … Read more
I had the idea one night to be a Garbage Pail Kid for Halloween. I called my best friend to ask her if she wanted in on the idea and the next thing I know there were six of us that were going as GPK’s. Each person was responsible for finding their costume clothing and … Read more
Our R2D2 was such a hit the previous year that my husband decided to make a full size, to scale Wall-E from the movie. He drew out the plans and made everything to scale. He cut each piece of wood individually and layered it to make all of the 3D elements, the tracks for the … Read more
Connor has a leukodystrophy, which means he loses motor function as his disease progresses. So Mom and Dad try to take moments in his life and make them as special as we can. Every year I let him pick what he wants to be for halloween. Whatever he picks, we have to work off of … Read more
Being great South Park fans, my teenage sons had asked me to design Halloween costumes for them including Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, and Stan. After spending a few days trying to figure out how to make them, I decided to go with paper mache. My Dad had made Flintstone paper mache “heads” for our family 30 years ago and … Read more
The initial idea for my Incredible Hulk costume came on a cold December night as a bunch of my friends and I were out for dinner and drinks. It’s been a standing joke for some time for my friends to say “Don’t make him angry, you won’t like him when he’s angry,” or any other … Read more