First off you need a handsome man to make the cut to be your Jack. What I did was went to a nearby thrift store and got an XL men’s plaid button up t-shirt. I then had my friend sew it up into a dress. I then used a white piece of fabric for the apron and … Read more
The Old Woman who lived in a shoe costume was super fun to make! I wanted it to be on a stroller so it would be easy to get my little one around. I started with a stroller, then bungeed a seat to the top. Used PVC pipe, chicken wire, and a ton of zip … Read more
I was thrilled when my daughter asked if she could be Little Bo Peep this year…There is nothing cuter than a little girl in a frilly, feminine costume! The absolute best part of making this costume was sitting down with my 11-year old daughter and coming up with an original design together. There are elements … Read more
Our family loves to do group costumes so when I found out that baby number four was on his way, we came up with a fun way to include the newest little one into our Halloween fun! Our costume includes Humpty Dumpty, the King and his men (horses) and the merry maid clean-up crew to … Read more
To make these Jack and Jill costumes you will need: Clothes you can destroy Bandage wrap Twigs A pail Purple, red, and brown eyeshadow (for bruises) Making the Jack and Jill Costumes Visit your nearest Goodwill, or raid your closet for any combination of plaid/suspenders/denim/ or whatever Jack and Jill are wearing when you picture … Read more
I love dressing up every year for Halloween! I never buy my costume and I keep what I am dressing up as a secret until the big day to see the reactions. My costume ideas can pop into my head at any time. This year the idea of dressing as Jack and Jill came to … Read more
We wanted a fun costume to celebrate a girls weekend in Miami. We were really looking forward to our first warm Halloween without winter coats! All of our past Halloweens were spent in Chitown :) There were three if us and we wanted our costume to be cute, comfortable, fun, and reasonable cost. We searched … Read more
Every year we compete in a fun little local Halloween Horse Show, the prizes are just ribbons but everyone really gets into it and it is an absolute blast! This year we went the extra mile and got a HUGE reaction from our costume! Everyone laughed, Ooooo’ed and awed and just had plain fun! Sometimes … Read more
My son’s school decided have a fancy dress day for charity. I had no idea where to start so I got out the nursery rhyme book and asked him to choose what he would like to be. I was hoping for a soldier or something similar that I could just buy from the shop. But … 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
Every year, we look at ourselves and decide what couple we could play convincingly, so our looks will lend to our costume. We were a shoe in for Woody and Bo-Peep. Sick and tired of all of my peers going around in short miniskirts and cat ears, or X-Rated Disney princesses, I decided you could … Read more
This Three Blind Mice Costume for Ladies is our 2012 Halloween costume, my sister-in-laws and I are big kids, and it’s tough to come up with costumes for 3, so after a little brainstorming we thought we had our costume. We started with gray Capri leggings and t-shirts, the idea blossomed from there. We purchased pink … Read more