Halloween Countdown: Buycostumes.com Review

Halloween is coming! Have you started looking for your costume? I found the most awesome costume at Buycostumes.com! Almost even better than the costume was how easy it was to find a costume that I liked. I didn't have to run around to a bunch of stores looking through their small selection of costumes. Buycostumes.com has almost every costume imaginable for any age.

So my costume is Gingy the gingerbread man from Shrek. I just absolutely love it. It is so adorable! I am going to wear it to a Halloween party and for handing out candy. The neighborhood kids are going love it when I hand out candy as Gingy!

Why should you buy a costume from Buycostumes.com?

• Easy to find costumes by age category, price range or search by character.
• Hassle free return policy for unworn costumes within 14 days
• No driving around looking for a costume
• Competitive prices on their costumes and accessories
• Personal comments on costume pages help when deciding on costumes


I want to talk about the fact the Buycostumes.com allows buyers to comment on the costumes. I found this extremely useful when looking at different costumes. Sometimes you can get great ideas for how to dress up your costume from the comments that have been left. In addition, people's comments may point out flaws in the costume design itself and how they fixed it. For example, the Gingy costume has huge head which tends to flop down. People suggested putting something like a craft fiber fill in the top of the head. I did that and the head stays up perfectly as you can see in the photo!

Right now, Buycostumes.com has a couple of discount codes:
• Buy one costume, get the second costume 25% off. Use code BOGO25
• Save 15% when you sign up for their emails

• Free shipping when your order is over $70. No code needed.

So if you are looking for a costume, check out Buycostumes.com for your Halloween costumes and accessories!

** I did receive a costume to review from Buycostumes.com . As always the opinions and ideas expressed here are my own. **

Halloween Countdown: Candy Corn Cupcakes

I saw these cupcakes and just love them! They will be on my list for my Halloween party. A really creative idea on how to dress up plain chocolate cupcakes with little extra expense.
So head over to The Sugar Turntable to see all of the directions for these cute cupcakes!

Counting Down to Halloween - Crafts & Fun

I know that is only the middle of September but if you want to make some easy and cheap crafts or decorations for Halloween then you need to start thinking now. So for the next couple of weeks, I will be featuring some Halloween crafts, decorations, and tips.

Here is my first tip: Sign up for the daily Halloween email from About.com . In every daily email you will get 7 Halloween craft, activities, and other resources including party planning help, a home-made costumes, Halloween creature craft, creative pumpkin projects, and more.

What to do with a teenager on Halloween?

So it is official, my kids are no longer Trick or Treaters on Halloween. My son has not Trick or Treated for several years but this year my daughter is not going either. Sigh.. another milestone! It seems like just yesterday , they were little kids!

So what can you do with a teenager on Halloween? Well my son thinks he might go to a Halloween party. My daughter is having a Halloween party at our house. She is having over some friends for games and a movie.

Teenagers still want to have fun on Halloween but realize that they are too old to Trick or Treat. So here are some ideas for your teenager on Halloween:

1. Murder Mystery party ~ My daughter is having a murder mystery game at her Halloween party. Easy to do and fun for the kids to try to figure out.

2. Watch a scary or not so scary Halloween flick. This can be done with friends or you can make it a family event. Some movies to consider are Ghostbusters, Psycho, The Birds, Nightmare Before Christmas, or Young Frankenstein. Of course, you can find scarier movies but my teens don;'t like really scary movies.

3. Hand out candy the teenager way! This is great for teenage kids. Have your teen dress up as a scarecrow/stuffed dummy. Put some straw sticking out of sleeves and pants. They need to wear a mask. They sit slouched in a chair like they are stuffed dummy. The whole idea is to convince kids that it is just a dummy and not a real person. Put the bowl of candy on the dummies lap (your teen). Then tell the Trick or Treaters that they can take a piece of candy from the bowl. When the kid takes a piece, the dummy grabs at them.

This is really a fun gag. Your teen will love it. Of course, we never scare the really little kids. We had a neighbor who would dress up as a Gorilla. Then he would just stand by the sidewalk and not move. People would think he was a statue so when he did move he scared everyone.

4. Make your garage into a haunted house. You can hang some large dark colored sheets in your garage. Try to make it a walk through with sheets for walls. Your teens can come up with ideas for the scary rooms. They can get friends to help. Also some teens can jump out and scare the kids. I am sure that your teen could come up with some great ideas for this!

Teenagers can have fun on Halloween too! My teens are excited about their Halloween plans.