One of my favorite movies as a kid was the movie Gremlins! The movie is based on a pet named Gizmo and the chaos that surrounds him once certain rules are broken. The two main rules are “Don’t feed Gizmo after Midnight” and “Don’t get Gizmo wet”! After these rules are broken a new type … 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
Hello all, this is my son and I in our Jango and Boba Fett costumes that I originally made for Comic Con 2012. I am Jango and he is Boba. These are the 5th or so incarnations. I originally started with cardboard, it did not have the give and strength that I felt was needed. … Read more
This was my 15 year old son’s idea. Slenderman is a mythical creature turned video game persona. We went and bought two suit jackets at a thrift store, and cut the arms off one to sew on to the other. Then, we bought a twin flat sheet, and cut and sewed it to make … Read more
Both of these Epic Anubis and Bastet costumes are completely hand made costumes for Halloween of 2012; I created the masks and my wife, Bastet in the pictures, created the costumes. The masks where sketched out on thick paper stock, then transferred to a matte board stock for the main structural part (head and main … Read more
I decided I would do a fresh take on the traditional “Man Being Carried” costume. So I took the idea and ran with it, or carried it. The basic idea of the costume was to take the “man being carried” style of costume and put a more comical twist on it rather than the usual … Read more
This year we decided to make Buzz Lightyear and Jessie the Cowgirl costumes. We started early in September. We had a ton of fun in these costumes. People were asking to get their pictures taken with us (or trying to sneak them and getting caught so I would pose). My favorite part of the night … Read more
This Jet Pack Optical Illusion Halloween costume took a couple of days of planning and a lot of thought. But the results are great. People think that I’m doing some kind of magic trick at first and then they laugh when they figure out the costume. I took one old motorcycle helmet one old Bee Gees … Read more
From the moment my daughter April cracked her first smile — a wide, brilliant grin like the shape of a capital D on its side – I had a vision. She was only 10 weeks old at the time, and Halloween was over four months away, but that smile (not to mention April’s adorable baby-chubby … Read more
Hello people of the world! I am an unemployed woman who loves her hobby! Costume making! I love my hobby so much that it constantly takes over at least half my room at a time (usually my bed so I have to sleep next to cello tape and pencils!) But enough about me! Lets get to … Read more
I decided about two days after Halloween that the next year I wanted to be a snow globe. Not just a snow globe, but a functioning snow globe. Lucky for me I was able to combine my craftiness with my husband’s electrical engineering brain to make that happen. However, it turned out to be a … Read more
This Zombie LEGO Minifigure Costume was made for the pop culture convention, Supanova in Perth, Australia in 2011. I used cardboard for the torso and legs, resin/fiberglass to make the structure strong, foam for padding insides and arms, straps with Velcro inside the legs to strap the LEGO legs in place, old fly wire for the … Read more