Every year, I love doing scary costumes, costumes that are so scary, people don’t even realize it’s me. Last year, I went with the scariest “Pinhead” from the Hellraiser movie. The biggest investment was TIME. I first purchased the shirt for the costume and wore a black turtleneck underneath. I wore black leather leggings and … Read more
Last year ,my son was watching spooky movies during the Halloween season and decided he wanted a Sweeney Todd Halloween costume. I have always created costumes for both of my sons for different occasions and being a theater buff, I was ecstatic to take this one on! He already has long, straight brown hair, so … Read more
I was heading to “create” a costume for one of the biggest events in Germany: Carnival in Cologne. As a none-fan of bought costumes everyone else could buy/wear, this funny Halloween costume idea was just perfect to create. I started gathering the required parts: Fake teeth: Lucky find, cause they looks exactly like the teeth … Read more
While brainstorming costume ideas for my daughter and nephew, the idea of chucky crossed my mind which was perfect, seeing that my nephew kinda resembles chucky, and Tiffany was obviously a perfect match. I didn’t want to spend tons of money on costumes so i headed to our local thrift store. After digging i found … Read more
I wanted something completely different for hubby and I, and we love the Austin Powers series, so this was a no brainer! Our Fook Yu and Fook Mi couple costume took a lot of work, but was so worth it. Everything I needed was purchased from Value Village and a dollar store, so the total cost for both … Read more
My son just loves The Scrambled States of America. It is a children’s books by author and illustrator Laurie Keller. When I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he told me Pennsylvania or Oklahoma. So I said Okay. Not sure how we are going to do this, I did know it had … Read more
This Edward Scissorhands costume was the hardest costume there probably is to make. We made his body suite with pleather material. We wanted the costume to be as accurate to the real thing so we tried to find beads and belts to match it as much as we could. We sewed the belts on and … Read more
For a fun Halloween costume run (race), a group of us decided to be Wizard of Oz. I made my entire Glinda costume and got TONS of compliments, and was asked at least 25 times to stop and take pictures. Unfortunately the picture I have doesn’t do it justice, but I’ll explain and hopefully that … Read more
As the mom of new twins, I wanted their first Halloween costumes to be perfect. I had boy girl twins in 2010 and everywhere I looked I could not find the perfect costume set. One night I was reading them the Cat in the Hat and it hit me, Thing 1 and Thing 2 twin … Read more
After seeing Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland I knew I wanted to be the crazy Mad Hatter for Halloween. I started off by taping off vertical stripes on an old green dress. I painted the skirt of the dress purple, so that when the tape was removed there would be green and purple stripes. I … Read more
I wanted to create a Beetlejuice costume with a twist that was clearly Beetlejuice- but also had a little bit of my own twist to it .. plus I wanted it to be a costume for a girl. I began by dying an old dress I had laying around. It was dark green originally, so … Read more
Having a serious love for sewing and the delight in having an outfit, costume, or décor/craft item that no one else has…gave my daughter and often times several of her friends an edge on Halloween. Nearly all of her life, I was thrilled to put my talent to work on costumes, most were from patterns … Read more