Desert Chica

Halloween costumes don't have to be expensive. Take stock of what you already have to work with and check out this list of free and cheap costumes you can make at home.

There are obvious places to buy Halloween costumes like discount stores, Halloween stores, and thrift stores. But there are other more unique or unusual places to buy costumes or just costume supplies. Unusual Places To Buy Costumes Moving/mailing stores like U-haul or the UPS store sell boxes, tape, markers, bubble wrap and other interesting things. read more »

Our Baby Yoda pumpkin needed a guardian, so the boys and I came up with a simple Mandalorian pumpkin idea. It’s the perfect Star Wars craft for this Halloween. DIY Mandalorian Pumpkin This is another super easy no carve pumpkin idea. It doesn’t even take amazing painting skills either. Basically it’s just grey paint with read more »

Celebrate the Dark side this fall with a Star Wars Halloween tree. That means we decorated our Christmas tree early with Star Wars villains!

If you are more an Amazon mom than Pinterest mom, these costume ideas are for you. If you want to wear a mask this Halloween then these easy costumes with masks are just what you need. You know I am all about DIY costumes, maybe that’s why you follow me or landed on my blog. read more »

Just about everyone loves Captain America, he is a Marvel fan favorite for sure. When you think about Cap what is the first thing that comes to mind? For me it’s his shield. Every Captain America super fan needs their own shield. Check out this simple DIY Captain America shield tutorial. Captain America Craft This read more »

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cricut for Cricut. All opinions are 100% mine. Do you need a Cricut Maker to make costumes? Nope but it can make it a lot easier especially when adding precise details. Making costumes is just one of the things I love to create with read more »

We were Tomatohead crazy last year, between Elliot’s Tomatohead costume and a Tomatohead ornament. I even made a Fortnite Tomatohead pumpkin last minute right before Halloween. It’s a pretty simple design so if you have Fortnite crazy kids like, you should make this no-carve Fortnite pumpkin. DIY Fortnite Pumpkin You can start with either a read more »

I am not always the first to jump on trends but apparently ugly Halloween sweaters are a thing. Christmas doesn’t get to have all the ugly sweater fun. And since I had so much fun last year with my ugly Christmas sweater cookies, I decided that I should try my hand at ugly Halloween sweater read more »