It’s hard to believe that Halloween is over. My, how time flies. I hope everyone had a great time dressing in costumes and eating lots of candy!
Costume Craze finished the season with a big celebration. Employees came to work in costume, and we ended the day with a Halloween party for friends and family. It was a ton of fun! We had great food, games, a pumpkin carving contest, as well as crayons and coloring books for the little ones.
Employees were each given a Certificate of Excellence in recognition of their great work this Halloween season, which was very nice.
After shipping hundreds of thousands of Halloween costumes, we had a MOUNTAIN of cardboard boxes. We took a fun photo posing by all the cardboard. This week a recycling company will come and truck it all away.
Here are a few more photos from the event. Be sure to visit our PHOTO GALLERY to view all the pictures.
Special thanks to the Maloneys for taking such good care of us and throwing such a great party!
In what will probably be one of the biggest hit family films of year, the bittersweet High School Musical: Senior Year dances into theaters on Friday, October 24th. Advance ticket sales in the United Kingdom, where the film opened Wednesday, broke records set by “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” in 2005, while online ticket sales in the United States indicate a box office opening that’s really going to rock.
HSM 3 follows young lovebirds Troy (Efron) and Gabriella (Hudgens) as they wrestle with the reality of leaving each other after graduation. Troy is planning to attend the fictional University of Albuquerque (the city where the series is based) on a basketball scholarship. Gabriella, meanwhile, has earned early acceptance to Stanford University. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage one last musical that reflects their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.
With new music, complex dance numbers, new characters and flashy fantasy sequences, “Senior Year” will be an exuberant movie experience for the whole family…and Nirvana for frenzied tweens.
Are the kids itching to join the Wildcats in their high school film fantasy? We’ve got the High School Musical costumes that will have them singing and dancing in the theater aisles!
Good news, Star Wars fans! The new Clone Wars TV show premiers tonight on the Cartoon Network at 9 pm (E/P). Each episode runs 30 minutes, and it looks like the network will show two back-to-back episodes.
The movie version performed only so-so last August. But the Clone Wars was originally intended for television, so I think we can expect a tighter script with better pacing, and the animation should look a lot better on the small screen.
As Halloween rapidly approaches, our Clone Wars costumes are flying off the shelves. Be sure to check them out.
ThatCostumeGirl has several great stories about Dragon*Con 2008 over on her blog. She’s also added 300 fantastic photos to her Photo Gallery.
She gives Costume Craze a nice shout-out, and we appreciate that. We want to support her costume endeavors, so we hooked her up with a VIP club room at the Atlanta Sheraton. We’re proud to be her costume partner and we are big fans of her blog.
Dragon*Con looks like such a fun, crazy experience. I just HAVE to go next year.
On a related note, we recently received a comment from one of our customers who ordered this Star Trek costume:
“Arrived quickly and was in perfect condition. Wore it to Dragon Con in Atlanta and had my picture taken many times over.”
Now THAT’S what we like to hear!
Be sure to visit ThatCostumeGirl to read all about the fun she had and to see some great pictures of Dragon*Con!
Costume Craze is at Dragon*Con! We are being represented by ThatCostumeGirl, our new costume partner.
She’s blogging live from the Con all weekend, so be sure to check our her blog. So many things to see and do, celebrities to meet and great costumes to photograph.
Dragon*Con is held each year in Atlanta, GA. It starts today and runs through Monday. Costume Craze is proud to be a part of this costume celebration.
Thanks for representing Costume Craze, ThatCostumeGirl! Have fun!
Halloween is a big deal at Costume Craze. In fact, our warehouse can be a pretty scary place between August and October!
And since this is our first Halloween in our new building, it just made sense to kick off the holiday with a grand soiree!
Friday, August 8th we met at the warehouse after work. Employees brought their families and a delicious potluck dish to share.
The tables were full of all kinds of goodies to try, including Teri’s fancy Texas Caviar (black bean salsa).
All the “kids” in attendance, young and old, had a good time in the Backyard (our game area) after dinner with video games, table tennis and foosball. And of course, a T.V. was mounted on the south wall so we could catch bits of the Olympic Opening Ceremony!
Thanks to the Maloney family (our fearless leaders) for a great season kick-off party!
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The Arcadia Theater in Olney, IL had a Hellboy pizza party to celebrate the release of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. We’re honored that they chose Costume Craze to get their Deluxe Hellboy Costume.
Doesn’t he look great?
They were really happy with the costume and gave us a big shout out on their website. I think this is just great. I love being in this business, it’s all about helping people have fun.
Head on over to Earlann.net to view all of the pictures!
On July 16th, Costume Craze CEO Kate Maloney will be giving a lecture on “Competition” to the attendees of the 2008 Utah Business Week at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Kate will be discussing competition in the costume industry, as well as competing in the Utah market for the best and brightest employees. It will be a very insightful presentation.
Just what is Utah Business Week?
For more than a quarter century, UBW has been giving some of the state’s best high school students hands-on experience with free enterprise on the Utah State University campus.
This summer’s program runs July 13–19. Each year, an application process results in about 150-200 students being invited by Utah businesses to spend a week at USU.
Upon arrival, students are divided into competing companies that select a CEO and an imaginary product complete with a logo and radio commercial. Each day they run a business simulation and hear from Utah business leaders. At night they have games, dances and a variety of team-building activities.
Looks like a great time! Costume Craze is proud to be a part of this fun and rewarding education experience.
At the Ernst & Young black tie event on Friday, June 27th, the Costume Craze CEO, Kate Maloney, was honored as a finalist for the 2008 Entrepreneur Of The Year award.
The competition is getting tougher each year and we’re proud to have been participants for two years in a row.
Everyone had a great time. The Three Waiters, a group of talented performers, infiltrated the crowd posing as ‘real’ waiting staff.
Here’s a video of the Three Waiters in action:
But they weren’t the real stars of the evening…that role goes to our staff.
Costume Craze employees showed up for the event in their finery and frippery which did little to quell their child-like enthusiasm. Each of their tables was outfitted with an ample supply of fog horns and party poppers to cheer on the winner…and everyone else.
By the end of the night, confetti lay strewn across the tables, in glasses and on the floor as a colorful witness of their revelry. What else would you expect from a Costume company? While the staff probably admired their spirit, chances are they didn’t love cleaning it up!
Congratulations, Kate!
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