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I wanted to do something very original for Halloween this year, and when Lady Gaga wore the meat dress to the VMA’s this year, I thought it was the perfect costume idea. The DIY Lady Gaga meat dress Halloween costume took me about 3 weeks to finish, working about 1 to 2 hours on it … Read more
I am a huge Hello Kitty and Lady Gaga fan. When the celebrity photography duo Markus Klinko and Indrani showcased their photo shoot on their BRAVO show Double Exposure from the Hello Kitty 35th Anniversary with Lady Gaga, I was hooked! I re-created my own version of the Hello Kitty dress and shoes. Once I … Read more
For a hair competition at work I decided to make a wig, GAGA inspired of course. I purchased several packs of platinum human weave hair to make it as real as possible. Using a stocking cap I glued on weave hair which had been colored prior to the start. The hair was glued in place … Read more
I made this easy Homemade Bacon and Eggs with Toast Costume. I used quilting batting for the egg white, and yellow felt for the yolk. I stuffed the yolk with more batting and hand-sewed the yolk onto the white. I sewed the shoulders and sides together and my son wore it over a white turtleneck. … Read more
This homemade cupcake Halloween costume design is made of an old lamp shade in the bottom with paper folded like an accordion sewed onto the lamp shade. The pink parts are old grandma’s curtains (braces and tube top), the white tulle and lace is a gigantic skirt made of tulle just pressed upside-down in the … Read more
My one daughter was a bunny, so it was fitting to make her twin sister a carrot! For this carrot costume, I got a 3T orange sweatshirt at a second-hand shop. My mother and I cut the stomach and back off of the sweatshirt and turned the cut edges under to make it neat. We … Read more
After much discussion and debate about what to be this Halloween, I finally decided to turn myself into a pineapple. Of course, it was much easier said than done. This Homemade Pineapple Costume was made with a foam mattress pad hot-glued to six foam pipe insulators (apparently you can’t buy pool noodles in the fall). … Read more
My friends and I had no idea what to do for Halloween and so, on a beautiful day when we were drinking we had the idea of dressing up as a Homemade Red Bull Group Costume! We spent less than 10 dollars each and ended up with the best costume ever! People were taking pictures … Read more
I was a Human Wine Box Costume fully equipped with a cup dispenser and working wine! If you’ve seen the box of Franzia, well that was me and it was a big hit at the party I went to last year!
For my teabag costume, I purchased a few yards of Crinoline, a couple yards of cording and a box of Lipton teabags. I cut out two huge rectangles the same size. I then laid one on top of the other and sewed the sides and bottom. Open up the top and fill about 1/3 with … Read more
For the pasta gone wild costume I bought a colander at the Dollar store. I added Cream colored yarn and brown pom-poms (from Michaels). I used a red T-shirt and glued yarn and pom-poms to t-shirt and colander. For the pizza costume I glued two triangle shaped materials into a pizza slice shape. Rolled end … Read more
My daughter loves sushi, so we had to figure out how to make that for an 11 year old who didn’t want the “california roll” look. We decided to be a Sushi Hand Roll (Temaki) and make essentially a head-piece. I used quilting batt to form the cone, which I spray painted black. Then I … Read more