Ha! I see this billboard every evening as I drive home from work.

It looks like our friends at Omniture have finally figured it out. But Kate is our CEO, and we’re keeping her!

Halloween 2008 has come and gone, and a great time was had by all.

Our local newstation, KSL.com, has published an extensive photo gallery of Halloween costumes worn this year by the fun-loving members of our community.

A great many of these costumes were purchased from Costume Craze and it’s fun to see our costumes in action.

Be sure to browse the entire photo gallery (220 pics) on KSL.com.

Costume Craze recently donated over a thousand costumes to the Nebo School District. We are proud to support our local schools.

These costumes will be used for various theatrical and educational purposes, and we are thrilled to be able to help provide a fun and enjoyable learning environment for students.

Nebo School District is comprised of 34 schools and over 25,000 students in Utah county. The district is rapidly growing and the quality of education has achieved national recognition. Mapleton Elementary was named a 2008 Blue Ribbon School of the Nation by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

You can learn more about the Nebo School District by visiting their official website or by downloading their Quick Facts sheet (.pdf).

We’d like to thank all the teachers and professionals in the district for providing such a valuable service to our community. You are very much appreciated!
 

You might wonder what you can possibly do with old newspapers besides line the bottom of birdcages or recycle (please don’t say wrap gifts). But for a creative film student, seamstress and award-winning costume designer, newsprint presents no limitations.

When Costume Craze saw the Salt Lake Tribune’s announcement of a costume contest in which all entries were to be crafted from old Tribune newsprint, CEO Kate Maloney commissioned employee Camilla Whitney (the above mentioned film student and costume designer) to create the ultimate costume from newspaper.

I watched as Camilla cut, measured and taped. I’d guess it took her 5-6 hours, working on it about one hour each day. When she finally pieced it together, I was stunned that a bunch of newspapers could actually resemble a late 19th century Victorian dress. Camilla’s artistic design and careful details turned out to be the winning combination.

She won First Place! The Salt Lake Tribune announced the winner in their Friday, October 31st issue which featured a nice color photo of Camilla “in her ingenious fair maiden’s gown, complete with puffed sleeves, a sweeping apron and pleated skirt, all trimmed with black and silver duct tape.”

Costume Craze has plans to display the prize winning paper dress in a glass case. Congratulations, Camilla. Wonderful job!

 

Cub Scouts Pack 165

The local Cub Scouts came to visit us yesterday, and we were delighted to have them. They wanted to learn about computers as part of a Scout elective.

Darin works in our IT department. His wife, Pam, along with Rachel, are Den Leaders for Pack 165. Darin, Pam and Rachel took the Scouts on a tour of our office and explained how we use computers to sell costumes. The Scouts seemed very interested – I think we found some future employees!

Afterwards, the Scouts enjoyed our “Backyard” game room, and had a lot of fun playing foosball, ping pong and Xbox 360.

 

 

 
Thanks for coming, Cub Scouts! Feel free to come back anytime, it was a pleasure having you.

We’ve come a long way since moving into our new building in December of 2007. We moved from a splitting-at-the-seams warehouse in Lindon, Utah, to a 54,000 square ft building on Center Street in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

On May 30th, we were pleasantly surprised when Pleasant Grove City extended a warm welcome to us with a ribbon cutting ceremony. In the true style of a costume company, instead of using the usual scissors, CEO Kate Maloney sliced through the ribbon with one of our own Lord of the Rings swords.

We enjoyed mingling with several local business owners who attended the ribbon cutting ceremony to show support for the “newbies” and welcome us to their community.

We’re very excited to be part of the Pleasant Grove business community and look forward to a long and beneficial association!