For our Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo Halloween costumes I went to the thrift store and bought 2 old leather coats, a twill skirt and a suede skirt and a plain white skirt. bought a black and blonde wig, brown tights, brown pants, and purple contacts online. And bought cork coasters, leather … Read more
Ariel from The Little Mermaid Cosplay There’s a video at the bottom of the post if you guys are interested to know a little bit more about my Ariel cosplay. I’ve always wanted to be Ariel ever since I could remember and finally my dream had came true. I believe this outfit took about a … Read more
This handmade Reindeer Fursuit costume is made from faux fake fur fabric (about 3.5 yards white and 3.5 yards tan brown), thread, upholstery foam, plasti dip, slippers, paints, prisma color markers, elastic, bacalava, fleece, clay, stuffing, wire, hot glue sticks, a zipper and fake leather fabric. The head was made from upholstery foam and hot glued … Read more
At JAFAX’s anime convention, I had a large audience and lots of applause, usually people circled around me with their cameras to take some more photos. I made this Lugia Pokemon Kigurumi costume from fleece, thread, printable fabric for the eye, foam, interfacing, a zipper, gloves, campfire sticks, duct tape and plastic curtain parts. I … Read more
I used this Buzz Lightyear Costume 2 years ago in Brazil. This costume was made with several rubber parts. We had the job of separating the armor parts, cut and paste the pieces. The concept was pretty simple, but to execute parts so stay equal to the Buzz was more laborious, almost dramatic. When we finished this first … Read more
My husband and I tend to pick a costume from a movie. Last year we did Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers and the year before we were Venkman and Zuul from Ghostbusters. We knew we wanted to do characters from Beetlejuice this year, just wasn’t sure who. We went with the classic … Read more
This scary homemade costume is a few years in the making getting better every year. First we went shopping and went to flee markets, garage sales and thrift stores to find the old school hockey mask , shoulder pads, knee pads and old clothes. Next we hit the Halloween stores and didn’t know what I … Read more
This women’s Egyptian Statue costume is inspired by the 1930’s Cleopatra movie. The dress was made by a co-worker’s wife. I actually had a store-bought costume, and three days before my event, decided I HATED it. She made this in less than 48 hours. It is a gathered dress of a gold lame, and the … Read more
I’ve always been a huge fan of technology! I’ve always been good with wires (I have thousands of random wires I’ve collected throughout the years). My other talents consists of soldering, modifying components, computers, and game systems, operating systems etc. Star Trek The Next Generation movie series had a race of cybernetic organisms call Borg. … Read more
The cutest little Dukes of Hazzard Bo and Luke Duke costumes. My son and his best friend really fit the part.. hair and all! I wanted their costumes to be as close to the original Bo and Luke Duke as possible. I did some investigating and watched a couple episodes. I enjoyed them as I did … Read more
My boyfriend and I worked really hard on my costume this year. We are huge Walking Dead fans, so I just knew I had to be Michonne and come up with a cool way to make her Zombie Pets, and through some trial and error, we succeeded! We made the zombies out of Styrofoam shaping it to look like … Read more
This glowing daft punk couple costume with Tron EL wire suit was hand sewed to clothing with fishing line. The jacket is leather. I even outlined my Nike shoes with the El wire. The helmet was made from clay and then mold was made. Then pour with smooth cast plastic. Total of around 100ft of EL wire was used. A … Read more