Avatar the Last Airbender Family Cosplay
Avatar the Last Airbender family costume for Halloween, including character costume ideas for Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, and Toph.
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How to Steampunk a Costume
What is steampunk? How to make a steampunk costume inspired by your favorite character. In other words, how to steampunk something.
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Ringwraith or Nazgul Costume
Create a Nazgul costume so you can become one of Sauron’s Ringwraiths this Halloween or at your next cosplay, including the distressed cloak, large sword, and...
How to Make a Sword from Wood
How to build a sword out of wood, then make it look metal and battle-worn. This sword was made for a Nazgul costume for a Lord of the Rings Halloween.
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The Lord of the Rings Costumes
How to make costumes for The Lord of the Rings characters, including Frodo the hobbit, Galadriel the elf queen, Arwen the elf warrior, Eowyn of Rohan, and a Naz...
How to Make Galadriel’s Crown
Make an elegant DIY crown for your Galadriel costume using a glue gun and a few simple craft supplies. Easy to make and great for any elf costume or cosplay.
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Toddler Frodo Costume for Halloween
How to make a Frodo costume, including Frodo’s sword and magic ring. A toddler hobbit Halloween costume from The Lord of the Rings.
Our family all dressed as...
Moana’s necklace
Learn how to make Moana's necklace with hemp, and how to make a charm that looks like Moana's locket. A great DIY jewelry and gift idea.
My daughter and I just...
Lego Friends Outfits
Make a LEGO Friends outfit for your LEGO-loving girl. A perfect gift for tweens or any girl who loves to build with LEGO Friend sets.
My daughters are maste...
Family Costumes for Halloween
Make Halloween a family holiday by dressing up together with themed family costumes. Here’s some ideas that our family has used.
Our family loves to have a...
How to Alter a Pattern
Love making costumes but can’t find the right pattern? It’s easy to alter a pattern to create any costume you can imagine.
Last year our family dressed u...
Mary Poppins Family Costume
A Mary Poppins family costume is practically perfect in every way. Learn how to make a costume for each of these fun characters.
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Nerf Steampunk Gun
Turn a plastic Nerf dart gun into a steampunk blaster. It’s easy to make a steampunk gun with just a little paints and some details.
For my birthday this y...
Gentleman’s DIY Steampunk Costume
In sharing our steampunk monster-hunters and monsters costumes, I’ve saved the best for last. Today, the man, the myth, the legend: a Victorian boy scout who ...
Women’s Steampunk Costume
If you’ve been following me at all since my blog started, you’ve probably seen this old profile picture, which looks like I’m sitting in a very awkward p...
Kids’ Handmade Monster Costumes
Make some scary fun monster costumes for kids this Halloween with a DIY werewolf, a vampire princess, and a baby mummy in his own sarcophagus stroller.
Our fami...