My nine year old son, Brodie Henry, decided he wanted to be a Dalek from Doctor Who for Halloween. We worked with a family friend to build his costume from a drawing of a Dalek, with much direction from Brodie. Scrap wood is the main item used in building the costume. The only thing new … Read more
This started because I wanted to be Iron Man for my birthday party/ costume party. I purchased an Iron Man costume online and it was so cheap looking I could not bear to wear that to my party especially because it was MY birthday and I would be the center of attention. I had to … Read more
For those people who know me, I am known as the king of Halloween. I suppose the reason for that is because of my Halloween costumes. For the past nine years, I have been into making homemade costumes, getting bigger and better every year. Over the past nine years I have honed my skills as … Read more
I love to make my costumes. I would hate to show up with the same costume as someone else. I was talking to my friend about what I could be this year. She told me I should go as a loofah. She saw it on Pinterest. I was hesitant, but in the end I decided … Read more
I’ve wanted to create this Mystique costume for a few years and finally researched it enough to take the time to do it! I ordered a custom made Marine Blue Lycra Spandex Catsuit from milanoo.com complete with hands and feet, which came to about $30 with delivery to me in Newfoundland, Canada. I looked at a … Read more
Making the Words E-Bowl-La Teletubbies Costume: For this E-Bowl-La costume I took plastic bowls and wrote Es on them using a Sharpie marker. I glued lace straps to the bowls so I could wear them. I wrapped wire in lace and bent it into the shape of a bolt like La’s antennae and glued that to … Read more
Halloween is my jam, but this year I was feeling under the weather so I thought I would skip out on Halloween. I was wrong! Halloween is still my jam, and I decided that the night before Halloween. Usually I take a whole month to prepare my costume. I decided to run with an Effie … Read more
My boyfriend and I are big soccer/football fans and couldn’t believe this year when Uruguay’s Louis Suarez BIT Italy’s George Chiellini. It was a famous bite seen around the world and was turned into memes, YouTube videos and dubbed Suarez as a vampire! It wasn’t his first bite (and I am sure it won’t be … Read more
Living in a house with seven girls and one guy we knew we had to be creative this Halloween. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the perfect idea for my roommates and I, and we loved the idea of turning our roommate Jonah into a male Snow White. Check out our costume in action … Read more
I always wanted to make this super villain and I had to get very creative as the long arms pose a lot of challenges for wearing, storing, and weight, etc. Initially, I was going to use aluminum heating ducts which are bigger and look good but they are harder to store and fragile to bend … Read more
This ostrich rider optical illusion costume was very challenging to make. Overall, though, it was worth it. I wore the costume at work and everyone loved it! It received some good laughs. Some people had trouble trying to figure out the optical illusion. :) Starting with the ostrich body, I made it with pipe insulation covers, … Read more
To make these Finding Nemo costumes, we bought simple tank tops and decorated them with paint, glitter glue and lots of sparkles. The headbands were a last minute addition, to create the fish eyes. Super easy just gluing foam balls and painting on the eye balls. The fins were the hardest part but we ended … Read more