My husband has not gotten into Doctor Who with me and our 2 boys. Nevertheless, he is such a great hubby that he willingly donned a Doctor Who costume to go along with my version of Amy Pond for our annual grown-ups only costume party. Now that’s true love. It is really type casting because … Read more
How to make a Tron costume in 10 days or less? “Nan, can you make me Tron for Halloween?” My grandson asked sweetly, 10 days before our town’s Trick or Treat night. “Sure, Buddy”, I answered with complete naiveté. I was not sure who or what a tron was but each year I try to … Read more
This was actually a last minute costume. It all started with a failed attempt at making a costume using stilts apperently I do not have balance. So two days before Halloween I searched the house to see what I could come up with. I used an outdoor skeleton and started to tear it apart. I … Read more
Being huge fans of the show, both of my daughters wanted Doctor Who inspired costumes this year. My oldest was determined to be The Doctor, complete with TARDIS! We brainstormed and came up with a fabulous Doctor outfit, easily assembled from trips to the thrift store (jacket, suspenders and boots). We made the bowtie and … Read more
“Scarlett slammed the door shut behind them, quickly stacking available furniture against it. “Well, that won’t do much good against bullets,” she said, holstering her gun, “but it might slow them down. And while we’re here, we should –“ The Lady Captain stopped when she saw her crewmember leaning against the table, Morgaine at her … Read more
I usually go pretty gory or spooky with my costumes, but this year I wanted to go Steampunk. I also knew that I would be wearing this costume at my place of work (a fine-dining restaurant ) and wanted to keep it appropriate and somewhat elegant because last year I had to tone mine down … Read more
Star Trek the Next Generation has always been my favorite of the Star Trek television series. I especially like the Klingons, so I decided to be a female Klingon warrior at our local Phoenix Comicon and also for Halloween this year. First I looked online to see what I could buy as far as costumes … Read more
The best thing about this costume was that all I had to buy was the Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil, Flexible Dryer Vent Hose, Silver Duct Tape and Led lights! Everything else in the costume were found items at home, like the empty tuna can “ears”, the empty egg carton for the front panel and empty … Read more
My son wanted to be a robot, a robot with lights. I think we did a good job recreating an old standby into something fun and special. We used led candles and led Christmas lights that ran on batteries for the lights. The costume was made of two amazon boxes, duct tape and love:) We … Read more
I made it by buying a twin sized flat sheet and cut the top of the sheet off and used those for straps for the dress and cut 2ft across and made the top of the dress and used the rest for the bottom of the dress. I sewd the whole thing together to create … Read more
For halloween I usually try to be creative and unique when picking a costume. After much reserach and thought, this year I went with Elliot and ET. Not only is it a classic but anyone and everyone has seen this movie, not to mention i even added a girly touch to it for those of … Read more
This year I wanted to out do any costume I had ever tried in the past. Thanks to my engineer of a husband it was possible. It took us several weeks and lots of planning and editing of the original plans to make this work. How it was made. Black base layers (top and bottom) … Read more