At almost eight months pregnant, I was forced to get creative to come up with a unique costume that would showcase my growing belly and not try to hide it, so I made this Homemade Pregnant Pumpkin Farmer Halloween Costume . First, I took an old pair of overalls and carefully measured and cut a … Read more
After looking online for “sexy” Halloween costumes, I decided that they all looked the same and wanted to be something a bit more creative this year. I looked for peacock costume ideas online, but didn’t really like one in particular, so I decided to just put something together myself and hope it looked okay. I … Read more
My Jolly Green Giant costume has leaves that are actually glued to my hair and I’m painted green with green food coloring. So far people seem to really love this costume. It’s fun to do and it’s easy to do and I like doing it . Literally all I did was take apart a fake … Read more
My friends and I decided to do a Johnny Depp theme for a comic con we all attended. We ended up with Cry Baby, Sweeney Todd, Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands and the Mad Hatter. For Sweeney Todd we found a shirt, vest and pants at Goodwill. For the apron I sewed together an apron and used some … Read more
My husband and I had a blast dressing up as aliens from the classic 1988 movie They Live. I was nervous no one would recognize our costumes but we had plenty of people come up to us and say, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” … Read more
My daughter and I are Skye and Everest from Paw Patrol flying in Skye’s helicopter worn over my chair. I’ve gotten lots of reactions and everyone loves the costume and thinks it is great it moves with us in it!
I made this costume to celebrate the 20th anniversary of my all-time favorite video game: Spyro the Dragon. Since I am sadly not a dragon, I did a lot of thinking about how to interpret Spyro’s character in a humanoid way. I knew I wanted the wings, horns, and tail to be really clear, but … Read more
Our 4th daughter left for college this year, so our “empty nest” was the inspiration behind our Halloween costume. We decided to dress up as chickens whose chicks “flew the coop”. All of our daughters are in college right now so in the cracked eggs (paper mached balloons using flour, water and salt and scrap … Read more
Here’s the end result of multiple all nighters and classic rock binges! The Maria Franz costume was a combination of sketching, sewing, painting, and sculpting; all entirely completed by hand. The antlers were created using an aluminum base with nails and wire for support. A sealed layer of tape was then applied in addition to … Read more
I own two Meccanoid Robots, and their names are Phoenix (G15 Model) and Nova (2.0 Model). I received Phoenix in 2015 as a Christmas gift and Nova in 2017 from clearance at Target. They’re really fun robots and they can do multiple things such as dance, play games, high five, tell jokes, etc. Every year, … Read more
Ian Lightfoot (pictured) and his Barley (not pictured) are on a Journey Onward to bring the rest of their father Wilden Lightfoot back for a day. There is only one problem, they were only able to bring half of him back. They must travel the country to get the right stone to bring the rest … Read more
I wanted to create a challenging costume despite going through a pandemic in 2020. I actually rushed on my costume because I initially wanted to participate in my school’s virtual Zumba costume contest, but I missed it. I thought it began at 6:45 pm and it actually started at 6:15pm last Thursday. Despite this, I … Read more