Dog Halloween Costumes by The Knitty Biddy

Got a dog? Do they enjoy dressing up for holidays? Of course not! But I know you get a kick out of it.



Your friend Kostume Girl has branched out into the wide wonderful world of Etsy. There are some of the best and worst handmade items available on the internet. Perhaps I should've worn this to be a Sexy Unicorn? I think not, but nice horn. Etsy lets skilled crafters and artist market themselves to a bigger audience. Do-It-Yourself kits are also available on Etsy which is great for the crafty and the crafty at heart.

However on to my point... knitting is another passion of mine. Visit my shop - The Knitty Biddy! You can find quality handmade dog sweaters and accessories and just in time for Hallloween, Count Dogula costumes.

Zombie Blog

After an eventful and highly successful ZombieCon I discovered this Zombie blog.

I will be posting my pictures soon.

Burning Man 2010 Metropolis HD Video uploaded

The long process of uploading the HD quality video of my Burning Man experience to YouTube has finally been completed! I think it looks great and I'm proud to share it with you. Look for me yelling into the megaphone during a dust storm.

Zombie Con New York City - October 16, 2010

You can hear the rumble in the distance.. The unrest of the undead... The smell of rotting flesh... the hunger for BRAAAAAINS!!No, its not hungover hipsters at brunch in Williamsburg, its...

ZOMBIECON New York City! Saturday, October 16th, 2010
I was doing a little prep work tonight and finished my masquerade mask for my Victorian Zombie costume. I know I've been doing a lot of Victorian costumes lately but I just love that blond beehive wig and I am finally going to put the Queen Frostine dress to rest with a bloody send off with style. Queen Frostine has been through 3 Santa Cons, 1 Halloween, 1 Mardi Gras and 2 birthday parties. I've grateful for all the good times this dress has helped me have and now I'm going to retire it to the undead part of my closet. This is going to require a lot of red and black paint and a sharp pair of scissors. Perhaps I will just put it on and roll down a cliff in Central Park. Either way I expect the end result to be dramatic and a real "show stopper".

Here is a picture of my accessory, a masquerade mask. Complete with dangling eyeball!!

Sign up for text message updates at ZOMBIECON NYC. This year there will even be an afterparty. The 1st Annual Zombie Bawl! Join us after the Con for dinner, dancing, demented performances and braaaiiiinnnssss. The party will get started at LE POISSON ROUGE, 158 Bleecker Street, NYC, at 7 pm and go all night long. Get your advance sale tickets here. See you there and don't for get your uncontrollable urge to eat humans brains.

Is it Halloween Yet?

With only 3 days left in September (where did the time go?!) I am starting to feel the pull of my favorite season.

HALLOWEEN!

I'm not even going to call it Fall or Autumn. Changing leaves and harvest stuff is great and all but really, it's all about my favorite holiday of the year. Tomorrow I will dig out the Halloween decoration box from the top of the Kostume Closet. Hopefully I won't get hurt when the inevitable avalanche of wigs, hats and unused luggage falls from the top shelf with it. Then it's time to spider web up my desk at work. Then I will spookify my Facebook picture. Then I have a LOT of work to do.

There are a few people that I am dressing other than myself this year which I am happy to do but I need to get cracking like.. yesterday. I am making a dog costume too. If it goes well I may add a few hand made dog costumes to my etsy site. (more about that later). To prepare I took at trip to Joann Fabrics with my mother this weekend. It was very inspiring but I didn't get all the materials I needed because some of my costume ideas are just that, ideas. I don't have an accurate idea of how much fabric I will actually need.

As usual, I am doing more than one costume for Halloween weekend. With Halloween on a Sunday it's the perfect Halloween party storm! Here are the ideas floating around in my head. Friday night I do not have plans yet so I will probably wear the same thing as Saturday. On Saturday I will be going to a house party and I think I am going to dress as a Sexy Praying Mantis. This is how I see it in my head...




I am going to do green stockings and arm warmers, Green booty shorts or even a green leotard and then long wings down my back. The wings I am going to make out of shiny iridescent fabric with interfacing and maybe some wire. I hope to run a string of LED lights through them too. For the headpiece I am going to do a headband with buggy eyeballs and long antenna and LOTS of glitter and eyelashes cause as far as I'm concerned you are not dressed up if you don't have eyelashes on.

On a side note: When you Google image search "Sexy Praying Mantis", not shockingly a lot of disturbing pictures come up. This has to be one of the winners.I'm not sure I want to know what is going on here.

On Sunday, the actual day of Halloween I have a very busy schedule. First I'm going to an Edward Gorey themed brunch at Highline Ballroom with my friend Erica.The brunch is put on by a very cool group in NYC called Dances of Vice. I have wanted to go to one of their parties for a long time. They seem like a very serious bunch of costumers. I'm very excited to have plans during the day on Halloween because I always get so excited and want to dress up during the day but work tends to get in the way. I'm going for a Victorian Gothic theme for my costume for brunch. I bought a great black and white stripe fabric for the skirt. Rogue Sewing begins soon! Here is an idea of what I'm going for...

Then later that very same night I am going to the Dresden Dolls!!! Its their 10th "Bandiversary" show and it should be an amazing time. The parade is great and all but I have a hard time dealing with the crowds and if the weather is crappy, forget it. Halloween Day/Night should be a Neo-Goth/Victorian/Steam Punk Cabaret/Vaudevillian good time!!
So anyway that's the plan thus far. If you know if a good party with a costume contest I could win on Friday night, let me know :)


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HALLOWEEN BOUNTY! Costume explosion!

I just hit the mother load costume jackpot! I randomly came across an ad for a Halloween costume sample sale. Thinking I would just see what they had because I'm not a big packaged costume buyer, I walked over to 7th Ave. Hello!! Wigs for $2 and $1!!
So I went crazy and bought all sorts of fun stuff like a Raggedy Ann, White Trash w Beer Can Curlers, 90's Hair Metal Hair, Gold Glitter wig and MORE. I bought fake mustaches, pointy ears, horns, fake wounds, eyelashes all sorts of crazy awesome things. If you have any costume needs, you know who to call.

FairyCon October 2, 2010 New York City

Had a thing for fairies since you were a small child?
Was Tinkerbell your favorite Disney Character?
Still find yourself dressing as a winged creature every Halloween?
Here ANOTHER excuse to dress like a Fairy!!!


FAIRYCON 2010!
Join a gang... or gaggle... or perhaps a troop of Fairies that like to party across Manhattan. Starting Saturday October 2nd at 2pm. Please go to the website to sign up for text alerts for the Fairies whereabouts as they will not be released before hand (Fairies are very exclusive creatures). The Fairy afterparty will be at the Kostume Kult & Pex Reentry party (see last post).
Go for the drinking, go for the glitter, go for the wings, just go to express yourself as the woodland winged creature hiding inside you!