This is a combo costume that I wore with my 7 month old daughter in a baby-bjorn. The concept was an octopus with flailing tentacles attacking a snorkeler. I was really excited to do a combo costume with my child from the moment I found out I was pregnant. I knew we would be able … Read more
My son Jake loves optical illusion costumes. He hasn’t had a store bought costume since he was three. He wanted it to look like a Halloween ghoul was taking him away. As we were looking for the “just right” mask, he saw a mom with a baby in a front. He thought it would be … Read more
Here’s my headless horseman costume. It was on a cold, wet and rainy night in October, specifically Halloween eve when I took a black Outback western duster, and a black cape and decided to make my very own Headless Horseman costume. At first I was having trouble thinking of a way to create this costume, mainly the … Read more
For Mason’s first Halloween, we wanted to incorporate his name… so last year, he was “Mase Ventura Pet Detective”. This year, Mason dressed up as a “Mason Jar” for Halloween! It was super easy to make! 1. Get a 5 gallon paint bucket liner 2. Cut holes for the arms and legs 3. Print on … Read more
My son Thomas, this year wanted to be Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of fleet street! Firstly we used a wig we already had and painted a section of it white, the easiest way we found to do this was with Ti-pex. We then re-used a shirt he’d used before and covered the sleeve in … Read more
This year we got the family involved in the costume making fun. Creating Russell’s costume was a bit more painstakingly tiresome than rummaging through my grandfather’s closet to find brown slacks, but hand painting each badge was worth it in the end. The sash was cut and sewn out of brown fabric found at a … Read more
This is my son Ben. He decided he wanted to be Patrick Bateman from American psycho this year. It’s really easy to make. We took a white school shirt and splattered it with blood, added a pair of black braces to his black school trousers. The tie was from our local charity shop. we gelled … Read more
Find the creepiest, ugliest, scariest clown online and go to town with face paints that dry. Use your imagination. This way you don’t have to spend a lot of money on costume materials. Be creative, when you create your costume with face paints, you can alter it and do ANYTHING you want. I used Snazaroo … Read more
We got invited to a Halloween party an hour before we needed to be there and as usual did not have costumes prepared! Heather decided to go as a black cat. She converted her lion ears from the previous year’s Cowardly Lioness costume into cat ears. She did so by safety pinning them near the … Read more
Halloween is my favorite time of the year and I love getting creative and making my own costumes. This year, I was pregnant with my first child and due on October 28, so I wasn’t sure if I would spend Halloween in the hospital or not. My daughter, Cadence, arrived a few days early, on … Read more
When I was about 5 years old I hid in the kitchen of my mother and father’s home watching “Child’s Play” for the first time. When it was over I came out to let my parents know I had been watching and I was not scared of this murderous doll. So for my birthday on … Read more
My dad, who is a retired artist, loves to go all out for Halloween and create one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes. I told him I wanted to be an emoji for Halloween (he still has no clue what an emoji is) and build me this heart eyes emoji costume out of cardboard and paper. He used an … Read more