Halloween Kids Costumes

If we get right down to it, Halloween and Halloween fancy dress is really about children.

One of the biggest traditions to do with Halloween is Trick-or-treating, where Children's Halloween costumes come into their own, but do you know where Trick-or-treating comes from?

Trick-or-treating actually goes all the way back to the middle ages when it was known as 'souling' During this time poor people and not only children would walk from door to door and effectively beg for food. This mostly occurred on the 1st of November, which is the eve of All Hallows day known as All-hallow-even (where the name Halloween comes from) and in exchange for prayers for the dead, they would receive food! The idea of wearing Halloween costumes or fancy dress for this is probably down to some of these people being ashamed of begging an so they would wear masks.

Children's Halloween costumes have come along way in recent years, gone are the days when all you could find for girls were scary witch costumes and boys Halloween costumes would consist of skeleton or ghost costumes. There is now a vast range of scary costumes as well as funny Halloween costumes exclusively for children.

Homemade Halloween Costumes
This of course can also mean that Halloween can become almost as expensive as Christmas time, unless you can find some cheap Halloween costumes, or if you can find some Halloween costume patterns and make your own. Personally I am rubbish at sewing and I do think that you can find some really creative Halloween costumes for Kids for sale on the web, you just need to do a little searching.

Also check out another post of mine on Top 10 Childrens Halloween Costumes 2008

Kids Halloween costumes ideas

Girls Halloween Costumes:
Witch Costumes
Vampiress Costumes (Girl Vampires!)
Child Corpse Bride Costumes
Bat Costumes
Lady Devil Costumes
Gothic Princess Costumes
Midnight Spirit Costume (pictured)

Boys Halloween Costume Ideas:
Evil Pirate Costume
Zombie Costume
Skeleton Costume
Ghost Costumes
Evil Clown Costumes
Evil Jester Costume
Vampire Costumes


Check out more Childrens Halloween Costumes on Amazon.co.uk

September is National Sewing Month!

September is National Sewing Month!

In honor of National Sewing Month I thought I'd share some fun sewing links and pictures with you.

To get a banner for National Sewing Month go HERE.

Visit National Sewing Month . Org to find fun activities and projects and ideas.

For a fun little project check out Lazy Girl's blog for a Make 2 Give 2 project in honor of National Sewing Month.

Did you know that in September of 1985 President Ronald Regan signed a proclamation declaring September National Sewing Month. See it HERE.

Have you seen The Big List of Sewing Blogs. Check it out--but beware you'll get lost and have a wonderful time going through all of the cool links! Look for me--I'm currently # 70.

I love visiting other peoples sewing rooms and seeing how they are decorated and how they organize them or how messy they might be--like mine! Check out my list in progress of sewing rooms at My Big Blog List -- where I keep my huge blogroll.

Then make sure to stop by this huge list of 109 Sewing Rooms I am # 14, however it is my old sewing room from when I lived in Florida. I still have to get this one organized enough for public viewing.

Last but not least is Needlepointers.com It is chock full of sewing hints, tips, techniques etc.

I hope you've enjoyed the links and please feel free to use the sewing graphics. All I ask it that you save them to your own computer and not copy/paste them from here.

Pick up a needle and thread and Happy Stitching!

Fancy Dress Disney Costumes

I am not sure what it is, perhaps just clever marketing from Walt Disney, but even though many Disney characters are pretty old fashioned, especially from the classic Disney films the fancy dress Disney costumes like Mickey and Minnie mouse costumes, Peter Pan costumes and Tinkerbell costumes and Snow White Costumes continue to be some of the most popular fancy dress themes for adults.

Perhaps it is because most of us have fond memories of these characters as children and therefore dressing up in a classic Disney character is always going to be fun. I don't have children, so do not know if kids these days are watching the old Disney films, but my feeling would be the next generation of adults dressing up in fancy dress Disney costumes will be all about Toy story costumes, with Woodie Costumes and Buzz Lightyear Costumes, then there could be great Lion King costumes like a Pumba costume and don't forget a Mr Incredible Costume. I have seen plenty of children dressing up in these new age Disney fancy dress outfits, but as yet not as many adults. You can find adult Buzz Lightyear costumes on the web as well as adult Woody and Mr. Incredible costumes so there is no reason why you cannot dress up in your fav Cinderella costumes for your next Disney theme fancy dress party!

Check out my other Disney Themed Articles:
The Minnie Mouse Costume
Alice in Wonderland Costumes