My, what a fine looking group. Such great costumes!

Today, Costume Craze employees came to work dressed in fun costumes. Halloween is here at last!

We want to thank you, our customers, for shopping with us. Your business is very important to us, and we’re glad we can serve you year round by providing costumes for every occasion.

We hope your Halloween is filled with fun costumes and lots of candy! Have a fun and safe time trick or treating, and watch out for scary monsters and things that go bump in the night.

Happy Halloween!

Look at this adorable Darth Vader! Meet Boo Radley, the cute Pit Bull Terrior who belongs to the Great White Snark.

Have you ever been to GreatWhiteSnark.com? It’s a very popular blog that focuses on geek humor, entertainment and all kinds of odd things found on the Internet.

Every Halloween, the Great White Snark dresses Boo Radley in a dog costume. This year, we were more than happy to send him our Darth Vader dog costume. The photo turned out great! We’re glad to be a part of the fun geek culture that rules the Internet. We hope to team up with Great White Snark again next year. Happy Halloween!

Here are a few photos of Bo Radley from previous years. What a good dog!

Photos courtesy of GreatWhiteSnark.com

Costume Craze has all of these pet costumes and more – perfect for Halloween and year-round fun! Whether you have small dog or cat, or a large breed – we have the right pet costume in the size you need!

Darth Vader Dog Costume

Wonder Woman Dog Costume

Yoda Dog Costume

Princess Leia Dog Costume

Batman Dog Costume

Santa Dog Costume

Costume Craze was recently on our local TV news! Kate Maloney and her crew appeared on stations KUTV and KJZZ to showcase our Halloween costumes.

They appeared live on the morning news, and again in the afternoon. Live television can be a bit intimidating, but they did great! The video clip above shows the afternoon fashion show.

Are you ready for Halloween? It’s only 11 days away!

What’s Halloween without a jack-o-lantern or two? I tell ya, though, the jack-o-lanterns of my childhood aren’t quite so fancy as what you find these days. Take a look at some of the creative pumpkin carving from Martha Stuart’s site:

Pretty cool, huh? Keep in mind, though, that you don’t always have to carve a pumpkin to make a fantastic looking jack-o-lantern. Instead of scooping out messy pumpkin guts, pull out your paint, markers, craft foam and costume accessories to dress up your pumpkin!

Turn your jack-o-lantern into piratical perfection (see picture at top) with a pirate hat and eye patch or paint your pumpkin green, use a black marker to draw a face, attach a green foam nose and top it with a witch’s hat.

With a little creativity, some craft supplies and costume accessories, your jack o’ lanterns will go from pumpkin bore to haut couture!

Of course, if you’d prefer to be a pumpkin rather than carve one, skip the pumpkin patch altogether and check out our fun pumpkin costumes and accessories!

Pumpkin Spice Wig

Inflatable Pumpkin Costume

Pumpkin Make-Up Kit

Look at these great costumes! This awesome photo was recently posted by Star Wars on Twitter. We carry these exact costumes, and it’s great to see them in action!

We have the baby Chewbacca, toddler Yoda and a kids Darth Vader costume in stock and ready to ship! Dressing up as Star Wars characters is a great way to celebrate Halloween with the family!

Toddler Yoda Costume

Kids Darth Vader Costume

Baby Chewbacca Costume

Every holiday season I look forward to watching the Sound of Music and I find myself humming or singing along to the film’s soaring music. So I was most interested to discover recently that the Hollywood Bowl hosts an annual Sound of Music sing-along event.

The evening, traditionally a sell-out year after year, is a favorite for long-time devotees of the beloved family musical, which is subtitled so the whole audience can sing along, but also attracts fresh new audiences as well.

There is a pre-show costume parade, which is open to all audience members. Past costumes have included the Von Trapp children, brown paper packages tied up with string, a human gazebo (representing the one where Rolf and Liesl dance) as well as Marias and nuns in all shapes and sizes. Everyone receives a complimentary Fun Pak filled with interactive props to brandish at appropriate points in the film and the audience warms up their vocal cords during the pre-film activities.

Sounds fun, doesn’t it? If you need a unique group Halloween costume theme, take a look at some of this year’s fun and creative Sound of Music sing-along costumes (the nun costume above is my favorite!):

Want to dress like your favorite Sound of Music character? See some of our world culture costumes below:

Deluxe Nun Costume

Bavarian Yodeler Costume

Octoberfest Girl Costume

[photos via LA Times]