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Creative Costumes & Halloween Decor: 50 Projects to Craft & Sew

Editors of Creative Publishing - Creative Publishing int'l
Format: Paperback

The all-in-one Halloween book!Creative Costumes & Halloween Decor combines costume and decorating projects into one convenient book. The costumes are designed around three basic styles: tabards, gowns, and full suits (made from pajama patterns). Accessories like wings, capes, skirts and lots...
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Elegantly Frugal Costumes: The Poor Man's Do-It-Yourself Costume Maker's Guide

Shirley Dearing - Meriwether Pub; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to know about making costumes for plays, pageants, musicals...at minimum expense.
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Glue & Go Costumes for Kids: Super-Duper Designs with Everyday Materials

Holly Cleeland - Sterling Pub. Co.
Format: Print book

With readily available supplies and basic tools such as scissors and a glue gun, you can create unique, oversize, eye-catching costumes. You won't believe how simple it is to transform a kid into corn on the cob, a cupcake, pencil, racecar, monster, basket of flowers, birdhouse, hot air balloon,...
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Best Ever Kids Costumes

Vinilla Burnham - Collins & Brown
Format: Paperback

Capture children's imaginations with this charming collection of costumes! Ranging from a sword-wielding pirate and a snow queen to a hip-hop Easter bunny and an "out of this world" astronaut, they're perfect for afternoon dress-ups, playacting, and holiday fun. The projects...
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Creative Costumes for Any Occasion

Mark Walker - Liberty Pub Co
Format: Paperback

Provides directions for making a variety of costumes, including mummy, rag dolls, detective, harem girl, clown, and scarecrow
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Children's Costumes

Carol Harris - Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Print book

Examines twentieth-century children's fashion trends, describing how hairstyles, uniforms, and clothing for formal and informal wear changed through the decades and were influenced by actors, adult styles, and world events.
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Halloween How-To, A: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations

Lesley Bannatyne - Pelican Publishing
Format: Paperback

A must-have for everybody who loves costumes, parties, and ghouls. There are recipes, music and movie tips, instructions for costumes, decorating tips, themes for parties, and even travel tips for some of the best haunted houses, pumpkin patches, parades, and ghost tours in the country.
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Halloween: A Grown-Up's Guide to Creative Costumes, Devilish Decor & Fabulous Festivities

Joanne O'Sullivan - Lark ; Guild of Master Craftsman [distributor]
Format: Paperback

Finally, here's a Halloween book that's definitely for adults. It's brimming with practical and inventive ideas for parties, decorations, and costumes, and with an amazingly atmospheric design that's a luscious treat for grown-up eyes. Take the dread out of a costume party...
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Snazaroo Zoo: Great Faces and Easy Costumes to Bring Out the Animal in You

Janis Bullis - Chilton Book Co
Format: Paperback

Beginner book by Krause Publication - full color - 8-1/4 x 10-7/8 inches - 90 pages - step by step animals, butterflies, stegosaurus & more.
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The Halloween Handbook: 447 Costumes

Bridie Clark - Workman
Format: Paperback

It's dress-up for grown-ups, and the liveliest, most imaginative collection of Halloween costume ideas--447 costume ideas to be exact--from two hip, inveterate lovers of all things Halloween . . . plus dozens of other ideas for enjoying the holiday.Bridie Clark and Ashley Dodd are the dynamic...
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Stick or Treat: 25 Halloween Duct Tape Designs for Kids & Adults

Patti Wallenfang - Leisure Arts, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Stick or Treat - 25Halloween Duct Tape Designs for Kids &Adults
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The Costume Party Book: Easy-to-Make and Inexpensive Outfits for Halloween, Theater, and Creative Play (Design Originals)

Peg Couch - Design Originals
Format: Paperback

Prepare for Halloween or any costume party with this quick and easy reference to making great costumes, masks, and disguises for any occasion. There is no sewing required, and all of the projects can be made from easily accessible materials. Learn how to assemble capes and cloaks, hats,...
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FamilyFun Tricks and Treats: 100 Wickedly Easy Costumes, Crafts, Games & Foods

Deanna F. Cook

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Extreme Costume Makeup: 25 Creepy & Cool Step-by-Step Demos

Brian Wolfe - IMPACT
Format: Paperback

Why fear the things that go bump in the night when you can become one?World-renowned special effects artists Brian and Nick Wolfe will teach you how to transform everyday faces into an army of ghastly personas--from raging fire demons and disfigured zombies, to blood-spattered vampires...
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Homemade Halloween: Quick and Easy Costumes, Decorations, and Not-So-Frightening Family Fun

Fox Chapel Publishing - Fox Chapel Publishing
Format: Paperback

This ghostly guide provides everything you need to create a Halloween thats easy, affordable and fun for the whole family!Youll learn how to make basic costume elements, such as hats, capes and masks in 3 steps or less with no sewing necessary - just a glue gun is all thats needed to turn...
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Halloween! Tricks, Treats, Fun & Sweets: 25 Seasonal Ideas For All the Family, With 100 Photographs

Morganna De Ville - Lorenz Books
Format: Book

Atmospheric, enchanting ideas to celebrate the traditional festival of Halloween. Fabulous carved pumpkins, deliciously warming dishes, sweet treats, festive displays, games and disguises for the whole family to enjoy.
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Cosplay Basics: A Beginners Guide to the Art of Costume Play

Yuki Takasou - One Peace Books
Format: Print book

Curious about cosplay? Learn all the basics of cosplay here straight from experts in the heart of Tokyo! Japanese cosplayers continuously take the art of cosplay to new levels and now you can learn their secrets! Cosplay Basics has collected all you need to know in an easy-to-follow how-to...
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The Costume Making Guide: Creating Armor and Props for Cosplay

Svetlana Quindt - Impact
Format: Print book

Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever! Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with...
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The Hero's Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming

Gillian Conahan - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback

Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing...
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