The Star Wars Angry Birds Family came from my five year old. When I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he said “Angry Birds” and I thought “okay, I can do that”, but then he said “Star Wars Angry Birds”. I thought “oh man! that makes it a challenge”, and being the … Read more
Inspiration: My husband and I grew up in the 80’s, and as kids, our favorite cartoon characters were He-man and She-ra. Every year, I like to do a group family costume, so when discussing what we wanted to be this year, Masters of the Universe won! Deciding who everyone was going to be took a … Read more
Twas the night before Halloween When all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a mouse… Well, okay. It really was the night before Halloween, when I thought to myself, “This is my baby’s first Halloween. Must. Have. Baby. in Overload Cuteness Mode.” I was wearing an orange headband at the moment … Read more
We love Halloween and dress up as a group every year. We knew from the moment we had two girls and a boy that Simpsons was on our short list for Halloween ideas. We couldn’t pass up this perfect opportunity! After much brainstorming on how to go about “becoming the Simpsons”, I decided several things: … Read more
As a family, we have been dressing up for four years now. We were the Flintstones last year and right after Halloween ended, my husband suggested to the kids that we dress as the Addams Family next year. Our eleven year old that has been saying for the last few years that he was getting … Read more
I love shopping at our local second hand stores for items I need! I can usually find everything I’m looking for. This is were I found all the clothing for our costumes including yellow shirt/purple pants for Ferb (just had to hot-glue on finishing touches on the shirt), striped shirt for Phineas and skirt/shirt for … Read more
There have been many movies lately with dragons spotlighted and it’s been on my mind. When we saw the Disney movie Maleficent, my son said, “Dad, let’s build a dragon for our Halloween costumes!” So I started to think about how I could do that, I knew I wanted to build something big and imposing. … Read more
We named our daughter Sally, after the character in the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. My plan was to dress up in an Oogie Boogie costume and carry her around not only for Halloween, but a horror convention as well. My first problem was that there are very few homemade Oogie Boogie costumes to buy and the … Read more
Elsa This year I decided the costume theme our family was going to be as Disney’s Frozen. I was completely mesmerized by frozen (like the rest of the world) and knew I had to make that dress! More than that, I felt like Elsa’s ‘let it go’- helped me on a personal level as well. I … Read more
This toy soldier army of three costume was a huge hit this Halloween. We perused the internet for the green army men ideas and set out on our own adventure to make this way too costume! We first had to decide which army dude each wanted to be. I chose the bazooka guy, my youngest, … Read more
Welcome to the story of how my family got introduced to an era, that they had no clue about, ,until the beginning of September. As the kids helped me paper mache their props, and watched as the packages came in the mail, with different fun items, and as they watched me buy different shades of … Read more
Since my husband and I got married and had children, I have always wanted to do a group Halloween costume, and this year, I finally got my wish, family Nightmare Before Christmas costumes! It started out with my son wanting to be Jack Skellington and then my husband decided he wanted to be Oogie Boogie. … Read more