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
I asked my eight year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween and was amazed and worried when he said, “A LEGO GUY”. Huh, how was I going to pull this off. I quickly went to my friend Google and started to see how others had managed. As I started thinking about the … Read more
Halloween is our favorite holiday! My husband and I have been dressing up and celebrating the joyous tradition for the past 5 years together. We’ve made our costumes instead of buying for a couple of reasons; 1.To save money and 2. It helps us be creative and wear unique attire. We begin planning our costumes … Read more
We purchased the headless harness and the cape. We bought the chatter box mask then stuffed it with news paper. I supper glued it to the mask to the neck part of the harness. To make the mask more realistic we filled in the gum area with lip gloss and red nail polish. My eyes … Read more
Hi, my six yr old wanted to be a traffic light for Halloween, since grandma and I were going with him we thought we’d make it a team costume. Grandma went at the race car McQueen and I was Sheriff. Supplies- Large Cardboard, paint, markers, scissors, box cutter. We basically drew out the images onto … Read more
We recently bought a lawn mower so I saved the box and used it for WALL-E’s “body”. I cut four 19″X15″ squares then spray painted them yellow and silver in the appropriate places. After it dried, I assembled the cube by duct taping it on the inside. The top was a piece of cardboard with … Read more
This is a one of my many costumes for the parties I attend, this one I just created, and I am working on others. This costume is a Eve costume. I worked really hard on it. I have a snake included, a glittery apple, awesome make up, hair piece which I hand made that is … Read more
My 3 boys, age 4 and almost 2 year old twins, wanted to be pirates this year. I decided to go with a Homemade Pirate, Captain Hook, and Smee Costume with Pirate Ship. To make the costumes and ship, I combined ideas I used on this site and other photos form the internet. Pirate : … Read more
My son wanted to be Diddy Kong this year. I made him a furry suit and added a lot of padding to the butt area. I bought a red shirt and sewed brown furry sleeves to it. I tried to paint giant white eyes on his face like the Nintendo character, but he wouldn’t sit … Read more
My Homemade Black Widow Costume was made with just one yard of black fabric which I cut to make my gloves and the dress. The red part of the spider is from Micheals. I bought a red cloth thing for less then a dollar and a bag of different shaped and shades of red gems … Read more
My son wanted to be something different, so I came up with this Idea of him being kidnapped by the Swine flu Dr. I started by putting his top half of his body into pj’s with feet, then I stuffed the leg part, I put his real legs into the Dr scrubs. I made a … Read more
