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 of headwear are also included. Details like collars, gloves, spats, and face painting instructions offer lots of ideas for personalizing costumes.The decor section includes 30 unique projects for decorating your house inside and out, along with special projects for throwing a Halloween party. The projects use common household products plus lots of craft-store items like wood pieces, paints, papier mache, felt, craft foam, floral materials, and polymer clay. Elaborately propped beauty photos and step-by-step instructions with photos of every step make the projects-both costume and decor-easy to understand.
Publisher: n/a
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9781589233607
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Paperback
Elegantly Frugal Costumes
By Dearing, Shirley
Everything you need to know about making costumes for plays, pageants, musicals...at minimum expense.
Publisher: n/a
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916260887
|
Paperback
Glue & Go Costumes for Kids
By Cleeland, Holly
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, plate of bacon and eggs, or other unforgettable disguise. These 28 clever ideas are showcased in fabulous full-color photographs and are made with easy-to-find materials, including plastic cups and plates, cardboard boxes, fabric and foam core. A fantastic resource for teachers, librarians, and parents.
Publisher: n/a
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806992832
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Print book
Best Ever Kids Costumes
By Burnham, Vinilla
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 range in difficulty from beginner to expert, are divided by theme (so it's easy to find the perfect outfit for every child) , and feature simple instructions and step-by-step photos of the key techniques. Best of all, an accompanying PatternMaker CD (which runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP) combines easy-to-use pattern-drafting software with ready-made computerized pattern collections. Just tell the "pattern wizard" which costume you want and the computer draws it for you - in the perfect size and fit!.
Publisher: n/a
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9781843404750
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Paperback
Creative Costumes for Any Occasion
By Walker, Mark
Provides directions for making a variety of costumes, including mummy, rag dolls, detective, harem girl, clown, and scarecrow
Publisher: n/a
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897091388
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Paperback
Children's Costumes
By Harris, Carol
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.
Publisher: n/a
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1590844203
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Print book
Halloween How-To, A
By Bannatyne, Lesley
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.
Publisher: n/a
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1565547748
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Paperback
Halloween
By O'sullivan, Joanne
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 with creative and playful ways to dress for success on All Hallow's Eve; there are even actual costume elements to use, from wings and tails to masks and hats. You'll find ways to repurpose items right out of your own closet or benefit from a quick trip to the thrift shop. Unique make-up tips for a ghoulishly great appearance will complete the effect. An elegant "Pumpkin Primer" supplies projects to enhance the holiday spirit, including menacing hex dolls and simple, spooky candlescapes.
Publisher: n/a
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1579903460
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Paperback
Snazaroo Zoo
By Bullis, Janis
Beginner book by Krause Publication - full color - 8-1/4 x 10-7/8 inches - 90 pages - step by step animals, butterflies, stegosaurus & more.
Publisher: n/a
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9780801989407
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Paperback
The Halloween Handbook
By Clark, Bridie
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 duo, in or out of capes. For every level of interest, time--and irony--they offer suggestions. There's the ultra-quick: Pin several pair of underwear to a shirt, and voil, A Chest of Drawers. With a bit more time, wrap yourself in aluminum foil and don a beret--mmm, French Kiss. There are Angels and Devils, all with variations (add roller skates to your Satan costume, and go as Hell on Wheels) . Come Hither costumes--Lady Godiva, Chippendales Dancer, Stripper Emerging from a Cake.
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761129871
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Paperback
Stick or Treat
By Wallenfang, Patti
Stick or Treat - 25Halloween Duct Tape Designs for Kids &Adults
Publisher: n/a
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9781464705809
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Paperback
The Costume Party Book
By Couch, Peg
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, wings, masks, and more in just minutes. Instructions for face painting and patterns for many of the projects are included. From pirates to angels, your kids will love all the creative options in these pages, and you'll love the price.
Publisher: n/a
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9781574213447
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Paperback
FamilyFun Tricks and Treats
By Cook, Deanna F.
Publisher: n/a
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786866101
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Extreme Costume Makeup
By Wolfe, Brian
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 and otherworldly aliens--with simple face-painting techniques. Learn the secrets to creating believable, creepy costume makeup with readily available materials, easy-to-follow instruction, and a monster-load of cool inspiration for everyone from novices to more experienced face painters.25 fiendish step-by-step demonstrations.Award-winning techniques with up-close photo references for creating full-face works of freaky, wearable art.Learn the basics and then follow demos to turn your friends into everything from insects and werewolves, to cyborgs with splitting heads.
Publisher: n/a
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9781440328329
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Paperback
Homemade Halloween
By Publishing, Fox Chapel
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 your kids into Dracula or a superhero.Youll also find festive party games, magic tricks, party-food recipes, pumpkin carving patterns and construction tips for making haunted noisemakers, giant door decorations, and garden tombstones.For the spookiest house on the block, theres a treasure trove of ideas waiting inside Homemade Halloween!
Publisher: n/a
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9781565233829
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Paperback
Halloween! Tricks, Treats, Fun & Sweets
By Ville, Morganna De
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.
Publisher: n/a
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9780754828396
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Book
Cosplay Basics
By Takasou, Yuki
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 book on the making and engaging in the art of cosplay. * With original designs and patterns so you can learn how to make your own costumes Learn how to buy costumes; choose wigs and make-up; photography tips and more! * for manga, anime, and cosplay fans! * 300,000 Comic Con fans who attended NY and San Diego Comic Cons in 2013 * with a list of cosplay events
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9781935548812
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Print book
The Costume Making Guide
By Quindt, Svetlana
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 no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla! Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo.
Publisher: n/a
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9781440345166
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Print book
The Hero's Closet
By Conahan, Gillian
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 guides) to help even the most novice sewists create the costumes of their dreams. A skilled crafter and avid cosplayer, Gillian Conahan walks readers through finding inspiration online and through their fandom; shares insight into translating character art into real-world garments; and offers advice on pattern selection, alterations, fabrics, and embellishment techniques. The book also features 11 original step-by-step basic patterns - such as jumpsuits, jackets, and pants. It then suggests ideas for mixing and matching these basics to create costumes of all styles, including superheroes, pirates, elves, school girls, and adventurers. The Hero's Closet is the first how-to handbook on the art of sewing for cosplay. A must-have guide for Comic Con and Halloween, it's essential for all ambitious fans with a DIY spirit who love the idea of cosplay, but need the inspiration and technical tips to make an awesome costume.
Creative Costumes & Halloween Decor
By Publishing, Editors Of Creative
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 of headwear are also included. Details like collars, gloves, spats, and face painting instructions offer lots of ideas for personalizing costumes.The decor section includes 30 unique projects for decorating your house inside and out, along with special projects for throwing a Halloween party. The projects use common household products plus lots of craft-store items like wood pieces, paints, papier mache, felt, craft foam, floral materials, and polymer clay. Elaborately propped beauty photos and step-by-step instructions with photos of every step make the projects-both costume and decor-easy to understand.
Elegantly Frugal Costumes
By Dearing, Shirley
Everything you need to know about making costumes for plays, pageants, musicals...at minimum expense.
Glue & Go Costumes for Kids
By Cleeland, Holly
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, plate of bacon and eggs, or other unforgettable disguise. These 28 clever ideas are showcased in fabulous full-color photographs and are made with easy-to-find materials, including plastic cups and plates, cardboard boxes, fabric and foam core. A fantastic resource for teachers, librarians, and parents.
Best Ever Kids Costumes
By Burnham, Vinilla
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 range in difficulty from beginner to expert, are divided by theme (so it's easy to find the perfect outfit for every child) , and feature simple instructions and step-by-step photos of the key techniques. Best of all, an accompanying PatternMaker CD (which runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP) combines easy-to-use pattern-drafting software with ready-made computerized pattern collections. Just tell the "pattern wizard" which costume you want and the computer draws it for you - in the perfect size and fit!.
Creative Costumes for Any Occasion
By Walker, Mark
Provides directions for making a variety of costumes, including mummy, rag dolls, detective, harem girl, clown, and scarecrow
Children's Costumes
By Harris, Carol
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.
Halloween How-To, A
By Bannatyne, Lesley
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.
Halloween
By O'sullivan, Joanne
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 with creative and playful ways to dress for success on All Hallow's Eve; there are even actual costume elements to use, from wings and tails to masks and hats. You'll find ways to repurpose items right out of your own closet or benefit from a quick trip to the thrift shop. Unique make-up tips for a ghoulishly great appearance will complete the effect. An elegant "Pumpkin Primer" supplies projects to enhance the holiday spirit, including menacing hex dolls and simple, spooky candlescapes.
Snazaroo Zoo
By Bullis, Janis
Beginner book by Krause Publication - full color - 8-1/4 x 10-7/8 inches - 90 pages - step by step animals, butterflies, stegosaurus & more.
The Halloween Handbook
By Clark, Bridie
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 duo, in or out of capes. For every level of interest, time--and irony--they offer suggestions. There's the ultra-quick: Pin several pair of underwear to a shirt, and voil, A Chest of Drawers. With a bit more time, wrap yourself in aluminum foil and don a beret--mmm, French Kiss. There are Angels and Devils, all with variations (add roller skates to your Satan costume, and go as Hell on Wheels) . Come Hither costumes--Lady Godiva, Chippendales Dancer, Stripper Emerging from a Cake.
Stick or Treat
By Wallenfang, Patti
Stick or Treat - 25Halloween Duct Tape Designs for Kids &Adults
The Costume Party Book
By Couch, Peg
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, wings, masks, and more in just minutes. Instructions for face painting and patterns for many of the projects are included. From pirates to angels, your kids will love all the creative options in these pages, and you'll love the price.
FamilyFun Tricks and Treats
By Cook, Deanna F.
Extreme Costume Makeup
By Wolfe, Brian
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 and otherworldly aliens--with simple face-painting techniques. Learn the secrets to creating believable, creepy costume makeup with readily available materials, easy-to-follow instruction, and a monster-load of cool inspiration for everyone from novices to more experienced face painters.25 fiendish step-by-step demonstrations.Award-winning techniques with up-close photo references for creating full-face works of freaky, wearable art.Learn the basics and then follow demos to turn your friends into everything from insects and werewolves, to cyborgs with splitting heads.
Homemade Halloween
By Publishing, Fox Chapel
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 your kids into Dracula or a superhero.Youll also find festive party games, magic tricks, party-food recipes, pumpkin carving patterns and construction tips for making haunted noisemakers, giant door decorations, and garden tombstones.For the spookiest house on the block, theres a treasure trove of ideas waiting inside Homemade Halloween!
Halloween! Tricks, Treats, Fun & Sweets
By Ville, Morganna De
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.
Cosplay Basics
By Takasou, Yuki
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 book on the making and engaging in the art of cosplay. * With original designs and patterns so you can learn how to make your own costumes Learn how to buy costumes; choose wigs and make-up; photography tips and more! * for manga, anime, and cosplay fans! * 300,000 Comic Con fans who attended NY and San Diego Comic Cons in 2013 * with a list of cosplay events
The Costume Making Guide
By Quindt, Svetlana
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 no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla! Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo.
The Hero's Closet
By Conahan, Gillian
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 guides) to help even the most novice sewists create the costumes of their dreams. A skilled crafter and avid cosplayer, Gillian Conahan walks readers through finding inspiration online and through their fandom; shares insight into translating character art into real-world garments; and offers advice on pattern selection, alterations, fabrics, and embellishment techniques. The book also features 11 original step-by-step basic patterns - such as jumpsuits, jackets, and pants. It then suggests ideas for mixing and matching these basics to create costumes of all styles, including superheroes, pirates, elves, school girls, and adventurers. The Hero's Closet is the first how-to handbook on the art of sewing for cosplay. A must-have guide for Comic Con and Halloween, it's essential for all ambitious fans with a DIY spirit who love the idea of cosplay, but need the inspiration and technical tips to make an awesome costume.