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I have a reputation of always having great costumes. I feel the good pressure every year to come up with something brilliant that makes people say “She’s done it again!” This Homemade Muppet Miss Piggy and Kermit Couple Costume was one of my husband and my best costumes we have ever done! We had a … Read more
My coworker’s and I dressed up as the Charlie’s Angel’s crew… Lucy Lui, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. This Homemade Charlie’s Angels Costume was a lot of fun and easy to do. We all bought some cheap pleather pants at Target and then wore a black shirt and black boots that we already owned. We … Read more
We were looking for a group costume and were inspired by all of the awesome ones on this site! We decided to be the Sesame Street characters and make the majority of the costumes out of sweat suits. The base of the Cookie Monster, Grouch, Elmo and Big Bird costumes all started with a sweatshirt/sweat … Read more
This Jersey Shore Costume is a GREAT idea for a group costume or theme party! The best thing is that these clothes are what people wear every day so everything was easy to find. We found all of our outfits at the local mall -in the ‘teen’ stores. I found a few items at a … Read more
I came up with the idea about a day before the party I was going to and I went to the store spent about 12 dollars total on the Kermit the Frog costume. 6 dollars for long johns (pants) and I bought a ping pong ball for the eyes – 50 cents. I got some … Read more
I love Halloween and I really love creating unique and original costumes. Every year I try to think of something fun and out of the box. This year I decided to make a Homemade Animal Costume from the Muppets. It was a HUGE HIT. Everywhere we went people went crazy for it. It was really … Read more
For this Homemade Snooki Costume I started by going to the store and looking for a low cut shirt. I found the zebra shirt and a pair of leggings at a local store. I then bought a pair of sunglasses and a cheap chain and glued the chain to the glasses. This wasn’t as easy … Read more
We have had 12 Halloween Costume Parties and it is harder and harder every year to come up with something original! I searched and came up with this American Gladiators Couples Costume idea. For my costume (the girl) one of my friends had dropped off some clothes for my son and accidentally put in her … Read more
Here is a brief overview of how each went about making their Gilligan’s Island Group Costume. Gilligan: Gilligan went in search of his clothing at a local thrift store. Luckily, his first visit was a massive success. He found the perfect pants for the costume and found a great red sweatshirt. For the white collar, … Read more
Hi everyone, Old school muppet fever!!! This Beaker Costume was created by myself. I am a huge Beaker fan, so off I went. This took about 15 hours to make. The head is made of fleece, painted fleece for the hair, Styrofoam eyeballs. The mouth has black mesh so I could see. The shoes were … Read more
This Mighty Boosh Costume was inspired by the the B.B.C. show “The Mighty Boosh.” When my roommate showed me the sketch entitled “The Crack Fox” I couldn’t stop cracking up. It was the same roommate who suggested I go as the Crack Fox as a joke a couple years later. I was able to get … Read more
I made these paper mache Fraggle Rock characters for my friends and myself to wear out to a club for Halloween. It was a real treat trying to figure out how to make them wearable but with a little brain power I was able to do so successfully. I used baseball caps sized to my … Read more