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My friends and I saw a poster advertising the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” movie and this became the inspiration for our Homemade Alvin and the Chipmunks Group Costume. We went to Value Village and found oversized men’s coloured T-shirts in the 3 colours we needed. We put our own touches on them; I (for Alvin) … Read more
My twins were so excitable at only 3 months that Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costumes were a natural choice for their first Halloween costumes. Their red onesies were stitched from red flannel that was on sale at the fabric store. (We sacrificed another onesie for the pattern). I bought a sheet of felt, traced … Read more
This Dark Knight Joker Costume was done both by my boyfriend and me. I took care of his hair and make-up and helped put the costume together. It was actually done for a movie character theme party we threw at our apartment, and it was a huge hit. He already owned the grey dress shirt … Read more
This is the first year since childhood I’ve really dressed up for Halloween, but I had a party to go to and figured I’d flex my creative muscles a bit rather than buying something cheap looking for $40 at the store. Back in September, while perusing some stores, a friend spotted a Riddler key chain … Read more
My daughter HATES Dora, so for every holiday I buy her a Dora something. Her homecoming mum even had Dora on it. When I redecorated her room I hid Dora stickers in places that she would never find. Dora has become my symbol of LOVE for her. So when we were trying to figure out … Read more
Both costumes were made by Nicolle Driscoll their 72 yr old Grandmother.She took 2 cardboard boxes spray painted them cut the holes where they are standing with a pie tin.took medicine bottles and put 1 flashlight in the middle bottle for a siren,took 2 flashlights for headlights. She took a marker to make the faces, … Read more
This Homemade Care Bear Couple Costume was my solution to the shapeless maternity costume options out there. I knew I wanted to do something comfortable (because I was 6 months pregnant) but I didn’t want to be a huge hamburger or something like that. The best part was that after I saw my husband in … Read more
We created costumes for 4 of the disney princesses. Belle, Cinderella, Pocahontas, and Aurora all came back from the dead on Oct. 31st 2009. We bought old dresses from goodwill and made them into copy cat costumes from the movies. We then spent plenty of time getting our make up ready for this event. Hope … Read more
I bought the jump suit online and attached a vine to her shoulder for this Posion Ivy Homemade Halloween Costume. After wrapping it around her waist I pinned it to her ankle. The leaves on the vine were replaced from other flowers I purchased. The eyebrows are leaves glue together with a glue gun. The … Read more
My Homemade Corpse Bride Costume idea was Emily from the Corpse Bride which is a Tim Burton film. The concept would be to make a live version of the cartoon. I wanted something that would be beautiful with a dark overtone. I first started shopping for the dress; the main element to my canvas. I … Read more
My husband made this Homemade Flintstone Family Costume for all of us. After seeing the prices of costumes in the stores, we decided that we would try to make them ourselves. Three hours later this is what we came up with. We’ve never had our picture taken so many times!
Jokeress (n.)(joe-kress) : 1. a destructive, intimidating, provocative riddler. (adj.)1: manipulative, premeditating, methodical and radical in nature