The Jetsons Costume for a Family with Hand Built Space Car!

The Jetsons Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Space Car!

Creating the Jetsons costume for our family was a great adventure! I said our Flintstones family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’), but I couldn’t resist taking a crack at … Read more

Coolest Scooby Doo Family Costume with Hand Built Mystery Machine!

Scooby-Doo! Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Mystery Machine!

We had so much fun with our Scooby Doo family costume! I said our Jetsons family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Flintstones Family’, ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’, all of which included a mobile … Read more

Coolest Flintstones Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Car!

Coolest Flintstones Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Car!

What great fun we had with our Flintstones family Halloween costume. Having kids seems to have rejuvenated my inner-child and rather than buy our Halloween costumes, I’ve gotten the bug to create them the last few years, and hopefully provide the kids with lasting memories along the way. A couple of years ago we did … Read more

Ridgeway Dog Catching Company Family Costume!

Ridgeway Dog Catching Company Family Costume!

It’s been almost a year since we adopted (and almost immediately lost) our first dog. Kleo squirmed out of her harness a whole six hours after we picked her up and went on a 48-hour adventure covering over 9km on her journey. The outcome was looking bleak, but after endless searching, we finally got a … Read more

Coolest Guns N’ Roses Family Halloween Costume!

Guns N' Roses Family Halloween Costume!

Here’s the story behind our Guns N’ Roses family Halloween costume. The kids are old enough now that I try to give them free reign to decide what we do for Halloween – whether we carry on our family group costume tradition, or they venture off to their own individual costumes. They both wanted to … Read more

Coolest Spud Wagon Fry Truck Costume

Coolest Spud Wagon Fry Truck Costume

I wanted to make something unique this year that I’d never seen before – when I first thought of a fry truck costume, I thought it was perhaps a bit odd, but ran with the idea! “Chips” and “Buds” are our kids nicknames, they call french fries “chachas” (from when our girl first started talking) … Read more

Coolest Pest Control Family Costume – Catch that Mouse!

Coolest Pest Control Family Costume - Catch that Mouse!

I saw this mouse trap/wagon idea online a couple years ago and thought I’d like to make one as I thought it was the cutest thing. When our son was born, it was pretty much a given I would go ahead with it for his first Halloween, which was this fall. While in our shed … Read more