Coolest Illuminated Snow Queen Costume

Coolest Illuminated Snow Queen Costume

For years now I’ve been wanting a Snow Queen costume for Halloween (because I’m a winter-born baby and in sunny South Florida we don’t get any snow!). I knew I would have to make the costume for it to be even halfway good, but I never had enough time to do it and eventually went … Read more

Vintage Mickey and Minnie Mouse Costume

Vintage Mickey and Minnie Mouse Costume

A month ago, we decided we wanted to do a vintage Mickey and Minnie Mouse costume as our first homemade couples costume. My boyfriend is quite creative and he had the idea of doing huge Mickey and Minnie heads on our little bodies. The process of making the heads took about two weeks of long evenings … Read more

Our Little Waste Management Team Halloween Costumes

Our Little Waste Management Team Halloween Costumes

Our 3-year son has been obsessed with garbage trucks for quite a while. He watches garbage truck videos, he has toy garbage trucks, he asks us to rip up paper to make him “garbage” for the trucks. Sometimes on garbage day, my husband takes him out early in the morning, puts him on his shoulders, … Read more

Coolest Mini Gene Simmons Costume

Coolest Mini Gene Simmons Costume

We watch Gene Simmons Family Jewels reruns with our nine year old daughter. In the past, she has been princesses and Draculaura for Halloween. When we asked her this year, she told she wanted to be “The Demon” from Kiss. Um, okay. So I went online to see how we might go about making a … Read more

Littlest Ghostbuster Toddler Costume – Who You Gonna Call?!?!

Littlest Ghostbuster Toddler Costume - Who You Gonna Call?!?!

This is Cooper. He’s a funny guy. He has a great laugh, and has frequently been described by others as ‘silly’. He’s too little to understand it, just yet, but as it turns out… his parents are insane. They are the type of folks that would set out on a mission to “out-do” the surprisingly … Read more

Cutest Cabbage Patch Kid Costume

Cutest Cabbage Patch Kid Costume

My wife and I wanted to make our daughter’s first Halloween special (and have blackmail for the teenage years)! We chose to go with a Cabbage Patch Kid costume for Aislin Elliana, because who doesn’t love CPKs? To make the costume, we went to our local Target and bought the following list: 1. Trifold foam … Read more

Coolest Mushroom Costume

Coolest Mushroom Costume

This year, my daughter was inspired by our recent mushroom foray. She wanted to be a mushroom, but could not decide which one. We scoured some mushroom books of the Pacific Northwest and came up with a few of the more interesting ones. Together we sewed these various types of mushrooms which included Amainta, Morel, … Read more

Friday the 13th Part 7 Costume Build

Friday the 13th Part 7 Costume Build

This costume is based on the look of Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, Part 7:  The New Blood. I bought the skin and bones from latex hobbyists and did everything else myself. This is how I made the Friday the 13th Part 7 Costume: The skin and bones were attached to my undergarments with … Read more

Coolest Ever Ned Yost Bunting Card Costume

Coolest Ever Ned Yost Bunting Card Costume

As a HUGE Kansas City Royals fan, I instantly fell in love with the idea of creating a tribute to our head coach Ned Yost by recreating his 1983 Topps Milwaukee Brewers card of him bunting after reaching the World Series this year. As soon as I tweeted a picture of it, it became an … Read more

Big Warty Witch Head for Halloween

Big Warty Witch Head for Halloween

I decided it would be fun to make a extra large witch head for Halloween this year. First I thought I would do paper mache, but ended up doing Plaster of Paris. First, I took a large punching balloon and covered it with strips of newspaper dipped in plaster. I did a few coatings of … Read more

Our Version of Lego Lord Vampire Costume

Our Version of Lego Lord Vampire Costume

Happy Halloween everyone! Well this year I wanted to be creative when it came to costumes instead of the traditional expensive cheaply made store bought costume. My son was not sure what he wanted to be, so I started to think of all his favorite hobbies. Then boom! LEGOs! I was going to make him … Read more

Cool Invisible Man Illusion Costume

Cool Invisible Man Illusion Costume

I saw an invisible man costume online and thought, “I have to do this!” I win a costume contest at work every year and thought that would work perfect. I didn’t have any instructions, so every thing was trial and error. I had the coat first and thought I would just pull it over my … Read more