I’ve been loving the handmade costume guest post series at The Train to Crazy!  There has been a great variety of ideas, including these soft tails by Jessica from Running with Scissors.  With their rows of reptilian spikes they are perfect for either a dinosaur costume  or a dragon costume.  If you have a little guy (or gal) who is really into dinos (doesn’t everyone …

When I was in kindergarten my class made “bell” ornaments for Christmas, consisting of Dixie cups wrapped in tin foil.  My mother of course loved it and, much to my chagrin, kept it for many, many years.  She insisted on putting it on the tree every year up until fairly recently, when she was finally convinced that the badly-deteriorated ornament, after over 20 years of …

Okay, so this isn’t a super-cheap Halloween costume idea, but many of the components are things you can find at the dollar store, and the finished look is worth every penny.  Plus, this little girl is just too adorable not to share!  Her mom is Jennae from Green Your Decor, who searched through hundreds of ideas before settling on a costume that both a) her …

We’ve already talked about sock monkeys this week, but what else can you make out of socks?  Over at Craft Passion, Joanne used plain ol’ white socks to make a squishy little skeleton couple just in time for Halloween!  Using a pattern she found on the Martha Stewart website, she adapted it and added her own details to create  both a male and female version.  …

Amanda from Crafts by Amanda and Craft Gossip put together this tutorial for cute faux stained glass candy corn using construction paper and tissue paper. Kids will love making this candy corn sun catcher to hang in the window! The sun shines through the mosaic of tissue paper that they created. A fun fall craft, even for the little ones.

Have you figured out all of your Halloween costumes yet?  If not, we’ve kicked into Halloween overdrive, and we’ve got plenty more ideas to send your way.  Today’s costume comes to us from Jenn at Momma D and Da Boyz, who put together an adorable little flapper costume.   She’s here with us today to share her tutorial!

One of  the craft blogs I follow very closely is Craft Hope.  The site organizes various crafting-for-charity projects throughout the year, each time collecting a specific handmade item to donate to a different cause.  They have just announced their 15th project, creating sock monkeys to distribute to children in Texas.
It was a very, very hot summer in Texas, and the resulting dry conditions have paved …

Did you see Heather on The Martha Stewart Show this morning?  It was so exciting!  She was there because it’s costume week on Martha’s show, and the theme of today’s entire show was…  wait for it…  costumes from the dollar store!  Yup, right up our alley!  She got to share one of her awesome costume ideas with Martha, a hard candy costume.

Martha challenged her team …

Today was the big day! I was on the Martha Stewart Show! If you are on the west coast, you can catch the repeat of the show at 1pm on the Hallmark Channel. The episode was The Dollar Store Challenge for Halloween Costume week, and Martha’s team of crafters all had $15 to spend at the dollar store for their Halloween costume projects. It was …

Do your Halloween decorating tastes run to the slightly macabre? If skeletons make you ghoulishly glad, then this skeleton-decked centerpiece is just the project for you. You can find the vase, the skeletons, and most of the other supplies for this project in the Halloween section of your local dollar store.