I had a hard time picking a costume this year, but once I settled on Cap’n Crunch, I knew I had my work cut out for me. It took about a week to finish, but it was definitely worth it. Here’s everything I used for this costume: 1 blue fleece blazer, women’s size 12 1 … Read more
This is the first Halloween my husband and I decided to have a couple’s costume. Both of these Flo and Mayhem couple Halloween costumes were really easy! For Flo, all I needed was white pants (I found some at Kohl’s for $10), a white shirt (Flo wears a button-up but I just wore a t-shirt) … Read more
My wife decided that I needed an epic costume this year. We were celebrating our 20th anniversary, and we needed special costumes for our annual Halloween dinner party. She had her idea almost immediately, but I took a little longer to choose mine. I searched the internet high and low, and finally found an idea … Read more
Coming up with my costume each year is mentally taxing due to my ideal of having the perfect reaction at parties. I’m going for the “aaaah, yesss” or “Simply Awesome!” comments. Thus I had a very simple DIY Costume this year based on one of my favorite commercials – Mayhem, the guy who represents accidents … Read more
I thought of this Morton Salt Girl costume the night before I had to dress up for Halloween at school, I was thinking, oh goodness, I have no costume for tomorrow and I have no idea what I am going to do. So, I started Googling things and it had all looked like costumes I had … Read more
This year I thought it would be fun to create a back story for two of the most well know fast food characters. Ronald and Wendy are in a relationship and Ronald got upset when Wendy ordered lunch from Jack and the Box! The stress of selling billions of burgers has resulted in an anger … Read more
Everyone LOVED this Energizer Bunny Costume! It is one of my all time favorites and both easy and cheap to make. The battery pack and drum MADE this costume. I already had bunny accessories from a previous costume (tail, ears), you can use any set or make your own. I decked myself out in pink yoga gear: tights, shorts and tank- you … Read more
It all started when my daughter said she wanted to be a zombie for Halloween. I thought to myself OK, but everyone will probably be one too! A few days later, my daughter and I headed to “town”, we live in the middle of no where, to get zombie supplies and stopped to eat lunch first, … Read more
I picked out the fabric and my mom helped me make the dress to look as much as the iconic girl on the famous salt container’s. I found the yellow flats on line, attached fishing line to the ends of my umbrella to represent the rain, and carried around a container of Morton’s salt. The … Read more
This Rosie the Riveter costume was quite possibly, one of the most comfortable costumes I have ever worn, the easiest, cutest, and quite possibly my all time favorite. The 1940’s is my favorite decade. I have always loved the legend of Rosie. I had been wanting to do this costume so many times in the past … Read more
My husband and I created the Geico caveman using a prosthetic and applied it using spirit gum and liquid latex. That web site also has videos on how to apply the foam latex masks. It was hard finding flesh toned makeup color wheel for the mask once it was on, so I used foundation (water based) … Read more
We crack up when ever we see the Sundrop citrus drink commercial with the girl dancing to drop it like it’s hot. So this Halloween when thinking about what my daughter could be for Halloween (something simple) the commercial came on and she started mimicking it. So the decision was made, a SunDrop commercial girl … Read more