by Melanie McQ | Dec 31, 2018 | Cheap Crafts, Costumes / Dress Up, DIY Birthday Party, Fun, Halloween Crafts
This post contains affiliate links. My girls have just watched some of the Harry Potter movies for the first time and they asked for a wand for Christmas. They each picked their favorite wands, and I got to work. I was REALLY excited at how awesome they turned out. I...
by Melanie McQ | Dec 31, 2018 | Cheap Crafts, Costumes / Dress Up, DIY Birthday Party, Halloween Crafts
This post contains affiliate links. This was my first try at making my own wands, and I was SO excited at how they turned out. My children requested Harry Potter wands for Christmas and I recently saw them on Pinterest, so I gave it a try. I started with some...
by Melanie McQ | Oct 22, 2018 | Cheap Crafts, Costumes / Dress Up, Fun, Halloween Crafts
This costume took me a good while to complete. It was not very complicated, but very time consuming. I bought a lot of yarn (coupons and sales) to make this happen. There is a picture of the yarn I used below. I thought it was a pretty good color match to...
by Melanie McQ | Oct 22, 2018 | Costumes / Dress Up, Fun
I have not had time to make the official “how to” post, but here is a preview of our Halloween Costumes this year. I made Lord Garmadon from scratch, every bit is hand made. The ninja costumes we found at a discount store at an after Halloween sale last...
by Melanie McQ | Nov 15, 2017 | Costumes / Dress Up
Let me say right off the bat, the helmet was awesome (the details of how we made it are in another post). The costume itself LOOKED great, but…we did not really think things through as far as practicality. So, if anyone decides to make something similar, I would...
by Melanie McQ | Nov 15, 2017 | Costumes / Dress Up
My children have recently fallen in love with Star Wars. So, of course, that is what they chose for Halloween. My middle child LOVES Stormtroopers, so I started looking on YouTube for ideas. I found a lot of tutorials, and you could pick any one of them. I chose this...
