Cutest Baby Pascal (Chameleon) Toddler Costume

Cutest Baby Pascal (Chameleon) Toddler Costume

A neighbor sent me a photo of a costume and asked “can you make this for my baby?” (It’s a character from a movie) Sure, I can do that :) (Probably?! although, I still haven’t seen the movie) Make a plan For a fitted and detailed costume, Choose a basic pattern as a guide I … Read more

Cool DIY Golf Trophy Costume

Cool DIY Golf Trophy Costume

I got this adea form a previous picture i seen but it was a baseball player.  I raided my wardrobe and found 3/4 length trousers, a polo t shirt, a v neck jumper, an old watch , sunglasses and an old golf club. The jumper had long sleeves so i cut them off.  I raided … Read more

Coolest Homemade Dunkin’ Donuts Drive Thru Costume

Coolest Homemade Dunkin' Donuts Drive Thru Costume

We have three sons.  Each year I try to make at least one homemade costume.  We’ve had a scuba diver and a vending machine, but this year we made our best yet – our very own Dunkin’ Donuts Drive Thru.  We had so much fun making it – it truly became a group effort.  My … Read more

Cool Homemade Maleficent Costume

Cool Homemade Maleficent Costume

After watching sleeping beauty with my daughter I was inspired to create her costume for Halloween. She is truly evil and has a very unique look. I started with the head piece…I ended up finding the base of it in Las Vegas at the Zarkana show gift shop!! I was thrilled because it had the … Read more

Homemade Astronaut Costume in Honor of Neil Armstrong

Homemade Astronaut Costume in Honor of Neil Armstrong

Last year our daughters’ Book Week theme was Champions. We love Book Week in our family as we have made it a family affair and everyone gets involved in the project. Our eldest daughter Isabella has always loved anything to do with astronomy so when we asked her to think about people in history who … Read more

Awesome Homemade Plus-Size Fiona and Shrek Costume

Cool Homemade Couple Costume: Shrek and Fiona Forever!

Since we have the perfect body types for Shrek and Fiona the decision for what costumes to wear was easy! A couple’s Shrek costume and Fiona costume. I made Fiona’s dress using a Simplicity pattern, ordered the wig online and followed a tutorial on YouTube with step by step instructions how to do Fiona’s makeup. … Read more

Awesome Beetlejuice, Lydia and Shrunken Head Group Costumes

Awesome Beetlejuice, Lydia and Shrunken Head Group Costumes

For our second year attending and supporting the local Annual Jacob Soley Jr. Memorial benefit for a needy child we needed to go big. Last year when we attended as first timers it inspired us to be “the Ghost with the most” as Beetlejuice would say, for this year. After looking through our DVD’s, yes we … Read more

Sugar Skull Day Of The Dead Costume

Sugar Skull Day Of The Dead Costume

I wanted to do something different that would look really cool this Halloween so I decided to go as a Suar Skull from the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos, and as the halloween party I was attending was actually on the holiday it seemed even more appropriate :) Make-up: The main … Read more

Halloween Steampunk Style Family Costume

Halloween Steampunk Style Family Costume

Hi, I’m grandma.  I have been making my granddaughters costumes for the last couple years.  Halloween is my favorite holiday.  Right after last Halloween the girls started talking about this year.  We looked online at lots of pictures.  They liked the idea of having a flying umbrella and a jet pack so we went with … Read more

Super Realistic Rapunzel Costume

Super Realistic Rapunzel Costume

This is how I made my Rapunzel costume for Halloween 2013! This took me a lot of time and effort to make this costume. In April I was so bored because I hadn’t been in a show for a long time and I needed a creative outlet. I decided to buy a sewing machine and … Read more

Head-Turning Paper Doll Halloween Costume

Head-Turning Paper Doll Halloween Costume

I googled unique costume ideas and after seeing images of paper doll costumes that were made with poster board and then painted. I really liked the idea but felt it was a bit bland. I was determined it could be some much more wonderful if the details were expanded and tweaked. My initial vision was … Read more

Smartest Bookworm Costume Ever!

Smartest Bookworm Costume Ever!

I first started with the book which I made out of cardboard, cutting all the pieces the size that I need for an open book look. I chose to make my book Hamlet since it contains one of the most famous quotes, “to be or not to be…” I put 2 white poster boards on … Read more