This Halloween, my girlfriend and I wanted to do a couple’s costume, but we wanted to steer clear of the typical Halloween cliches. Since we’re both big fans of the Indiana Jones series, we thought it’d be fun to try out a couples twist on the familiar Indiana Jones attire. The result, “Indy-Anna” Jones and … Read more
My husband and I dressed up as Taylor Swift and Kanye West from the infamous moment at the Mtv Awards when Kanye West stole Taylors moment after winning an award and stealing the Microphone from her and insisting Beyonce should have won the award.
I made this Homemade Rat in Trap Costume last year and it only cost me about $20.00 and about 1 hour of my day. I used a 1/2 inch electrical conduit pipe and a heat gun to make the spring and then covered it with aluminum foil. Then I made a rat out of grey … Read more
I came up with this idea while shopping in a thrift store for Halloween. I found this dress and for $2 I just had to do something with it. I bought the dress and used double sided (sticky back) Velcro to along with a needle and thread to fasten a whole bunch of small dolls … Read more
To make this costume I purchased a grey, long sleeved t-shirt, a winter hat, and some felt. I made the calendar date with black and white felt. I used fabric paint to write “Tuesday” on the red strip and glued it on the date page. I cut snowflakes out of glittery white fabric. I glued … Read more
Every year my sorority has a Halloween themed meeting the Monday before Halloween. Your “family” all dresses in theme together. My family and I all visited a huge thrift store the week before where we found the jogging suits and glittery visors. We all stuffed the suits in various areas, had a deck of playing … Read more
Food costumes are great! Materials needed for this sandwich costume: 2-inch-thick white upholstery foam (sold at fabric stores) cut into two 24-inch by 30-inch pieces and one 12-inch circle, scissors or bread knife (for cutting the foam), brown and green acrylic paints, paintbrush, 12-inch by 18-inch sheets of craft foam: 4 pink, 1 green, 2 … Read more
Well first of all it was an awesome idea by my sister and since she was away on holidays she suggested that I become Katy Perry California Gurl with Cupcakes & whipped cream and all. For this homemade Katy Perry California Girls costume I started by ordering plush cupcakes online so that I could stitch … Read more
No patterns were used for these costumes. Just a lot of fabric, determination and trial and error! Very fun charachters to dress up as!
You’ve already scored once, may as well do it again! I thought my big, pregnant belly had relegated me to a “Homer Simpson” costume but when I couldn’t find a Homer mask (I live in Italy) I had to get creative. Everyone is always telling me how my pregnant stomach looks like a basketball so … Read more
I was about 6 months pregnant on Halloween, so my husband decided that the coolest homemade costume would be one that made it look like the baby was trying to escape from the womb! We took the arm from an old baby doll and duct taped it to my belly. Then, he added fake skin … Read more
