We dress up with a family theme every Halloween. This was our best ever. My three kids, Andrea age 3 was “Buzz”, Charlotte age 7 was “Jessie”, and Molly age 5 was the skinniest “Hamm” ever. My husband Andre is “Woody”, and our sweet au pair Christin, from Germany, was “Bo Peep”. But the most … Read more
This year, I must say halloween was a big success. We decided just after last halloween we wanted to do A Christmas Story theme and had to wait a whole year to pull it off. We were a little disappointed that many people at our annual church party did not get our costume theme (to … Read more
I have three daughters; the oldest a redhead, the middle a brunette and the youngest is a blonde. This makes for the perfect set up for Sanderson sisters’ costumes from the movie Hocus Pocus. My husband was Billy Butcherson and I played the part of Binx the cat. I started the costumes by searching Good … Read more
Homemade costumes ahoy! We started by trying to decide who will make which costume and ultimately, my husband made his (Mr. Smee) and my 2.5 year olds too..Peter Pan… To make Mr. Smee- Spraypaint blue stripes on white tshirt, use red doll pirate cap< use blue shorts and his own birkenstock sandals…we then robbed Santa ... Read more
We put this together last minute, but it was super easy. We went through our closets for whatever blazers and skirts we could find. We ended up doing black because that is what we all had, even though in the movie they wear navy. then we wore white tank tops underneath, but you can see … Read more
Suprisingly one of the easiest costumes I’ve done and such a HIT with people of all ages. Done individually these costumes would be a little hard to pull off but together the costumes were recognized left and right; I mean come on who hasnt seen Home Alone. Id be the one dressed as Marv along … Read more
So it all started one night in June… I was mindlessly wandering through Pinterest and I started to think about what I should be for Halloween (big jump… I know). I asked my boyfriend if he had any ideas, to which he stopped playing his Batman game on the Xbox and thought for a second: … Read more
Our family dresses in theme every year—not an easy feat when you have 7 in your family and the children range in age from 4 to 15! This year we pow-wowed around the kitchen table over several nights and after much back-and-forth (and a bit of angst) we settled on Monopoly. We have lots of … Read more
I love the ninja turtles so I brought all the movies and decided to go as them this year along with 3 of my buddies. We got each color spray paint knee/elbow pads, our individual toy shell, weapons, and mask. Got turtle-neck long sleeve green shirts, table mats and green shorts. Hair spray our hairs … Read more
Me and my fellow co-workers worked for 4 days putting our “Dollhouse” together! It took a lot of hard work, but it was so worth it. We glued paper sacks together to make our roof. I was able to borrow some antique dolls from my husbands grandparents which absolutely made the whole project!!! We used … Read more
Okay, so we (oh, by ‘we’ i mean 3 best friends from the North East of England) we found out about a really cool Halloween party which would be held in one of Newcastle’s art galleries. After not a lot of persuasion at all we bought tickets and began to get our brains ticking to … Read more
After a month of trying to figure out a group costume, this year me and my friends decided to go as sesame street characters! Elmo just found a cute red tutu & tank top, made her headband with marabou hot glued to a headband , also glued some to her shirt and skirt. The eyes … Read more