We recently participated in a Costume Contest on ThatCostumeGirl’s blog, offering a “Costume Craze Choice” award to our favorite entry.
And, Ladies and Gentlemen - we have a winner!
We are pleased to award the “Costume Craze Choice” award to Crystal Cox, Shane Cox and Blake Sanders for their DC Comics Trio! They look terrific in their television-style superhero costumes.
ThatCostumeGirl received a ton of excellent entries, and it was very hard to choose our favorite. So many entries were very creative and extremely professional.
In the end, we chose the DC Comics Trio because their costumes were great, and most importantly, they looked like they had the most fun dressing up together in costumes. There’s nothing better than dressing up with family and friends and having a great time.
We’ve sent a $25 gift certificate to the Cox family. Congratulations, and well done!
Be sure to visit ThatCostumeGirl.com to view her other contest Winners and Honorable Mentions. Thanks to all the costume lovers who submitted an entry. Great job!
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.
This time she models our I Dream of Jeannie costume. As always, she looks incredible. On her blog, she poses in the costume, provides detailed closeups of the material and offers handy makeup tips and tricks.
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!
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!
We are delighted they sent us a photo! There’s hardly a better way to celebrate Halloween than deciding on a group theme and dressing up with friends. The gals call this “The Seasons of Madonna.”
During our busy Halloween season, it’s wonderful to see our new warehouse operating at top speed and maximum efficiency. We’ve already shipped hundreds of thousands of costumes and accessories this season, which is pretty incredible, considering that Costume Craze was a small home-based business only a few years ago.
There are so many people to thank - our customers, the Maloneys, and all the hardworking Costume Craze employees.
But I want to say a special Thank You to Jen and Dave, our Warehouse Superheroes. They are responsible for our finely tuned warehouse operations which allow us to successfully deliver these costumes in a timely fashion.
Jen is our Warehouse Lead. She is tireless, thorough, and absolutely incredible. She’s a superb leader and cool as ice under pressure. Jen has an uncanny ability of bringing out the best in people, and motivating her workers to give 110%.
Jen doesn’t need a Wonder Woman costume, she’s already a Wonder. In fact, this Halloween, Wonder Woman will be dressing as Jen.
Dave is our Vice President of I.T. Infrastructure and Warehouse Operations. He’s a brilliant and creative systems engineer with superb technological and organizational skills.
Dave’s job is to ensure that all of our technical systems and software operate smoothly and accurately. He considers every problem to be an opportunity, and he laughs at the word impossible. Along with Jen, he trains and motivates our warehouse employees and is ultimately responsible for every order that ships out the door.
Jen and Dave make quite a team. Their loyalty and dedication to Costume Craze are beyond measure. They are real life heroes, making the world a better place.
Thanks, Jen and Dave, for all you do. YOU ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!
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!
Having a Halloween party but not sure how to decorate? Here are a few simple tips to get your festive party juices flowing:
• Dress up the table with a black tablecloth and run caution tape down the middle or drape around the sides. Or, use a skull or tombstone as the centerpiece.
• Make easy and decorative Halloween placemats by using large sheets of scrapbook paper in orange, black, purple and green.
• Slip black plastic spider rings onto bottom of wine glass stems for creepy-crawly drink charms.
• Serve the Monster energy drink Khaos which comes packaged in a black and orange can!
• Make your own Halloween snack mix with Cheese-Its, peanut M&Ms (take out the blue ones) black corn chips, raisins, popcorn, etc.
Okay, now that you have an idea of how to make your party frightingly festive, you will need to dress the part of the spooky host. Shop our huge cauldron of Halloween costumes now for the best selection…or you might end up making your costume too!
