My one year old son just loves when we read books to him. My husband and I saw “Where the Wild Things Are” and I bought it knowing it was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. Half way through the book Max cries out, “Let the wild rumpus start!” Then the … Read more
If you are a Milwaukee Brewer fan you know that one of the best parts of going to a game is watching the Racing Sausages take the field. A couple of our friends are huge Brewer fans and we came up with the idea of making Racing Sausage costumes for Halloween this year. I started … Read more
Every year for the past four years we have all dressed up as a family with each year bringing a fun, new theme. The first year we were the cast of the Wizard of Oz, then we were the gang from Scooby Doo, followed by the Star Wars team, and this year we chose to … Read more
I started making my 2 year old Jedi costume. Once the adults saw it everyone wanted a costume. 8 people later we had Obiwan Kinobe, Darth sidious, Darth Maul, Ahsoka, queen amadala, queen Amadala celebration gown princess lea, and Luke Skywalker. All made by hand, every detail. We couldn’t walk any where with out lines … Read more
My wife and I made our costumes for our entire family, us plus our 7 children. We try to put together a family costume theme every year. We voted as a family, and Despicable Me won. We started by building the bases of the more difficult costumes. Our minions are made from cardboard tubes and the … Read more
I have always wanted to do an elegant costume for Beauty and the Beast. I wanted them to look a little more historical, however, so I did some research on French court fashion from around 1800 and based the designs off of that. For the baby, we wanted to do Chip originally, but couldn’t agree … Read more
Super Coolest Halloween Costumes 2013… Featuring Bowser, Dry Bones and Petey Piranha My name is Tami and our Halloween theme was easy to decide this year, with a new puppy we named Bowser, it was too obvious…Super Mario! I’ll start with his costume, Bowser! I used 2″ foam for the shell and cut small shaped … Read more
Every year we go pretty overboard on Halloween costumes. 2013 one was no different. After much discussion we decided to do a family theme with Despicable Me. Dad (me) would be Gru, my wife would be the super cool Dr. Nefario, and the kids, of course, my Minions. I know, Minions were very popular this … Read more
The halloween 2013 , was prepared since 2012 . Like every year , we decided to challenge ourselves for Halloween creating a costumes that is interactive , visually striking and allows us to let go of our imagination! With this in mind, we decided to build one giant Nintendo from our childhood, and functional to … Read more
Up until this year, I had been making my son a Transformer costume in much the same way, but this year, it was going to be the Minions, and not just for my son, but for my daughter as well. I created the Minion costumes from corrugated cardboard. I measured my children (Ashley, 8; and … Read more
After exams last year, my friends (Paul and Benny) and I had enough of studying and we decided that we wanted to do something fun and challenging. We came up with the idea of creating a cardboard tank and taking it to some drive-thrus to order food. Building the tank was a very interesting experience. … Read more
I’ve been making my own costumes for years now and it’s one of the things I look forward to during Halloween. Each year I spend a great deal of time thinking of costume ideas and how to execute it. I almost decided to pass on making any this year because my husband and I just … Read more