I LOVE skunks, so I decided I wanted to be a skunk for Halloween. I looked up costumes to buy, but all of them were very expensive, so I decided to make my own costume. I had a black dress already; so I had to buy boas (for the tail), white faux fur for the … Read more
My oldest wanted to be a crow and after searching everywhere I realized I would have to make it. Then I got punny and decided to make crows for all three sons, a murder of crows. I got cheap fleece at Walmart. I used newspaper for my pattern pieces. I measured each boy from mid … Read more
This was the easiest costume ever! The magician: Black shorts, white button up, suspenders, and the magician hat! Most of these things are aready things in the closet! The bunny: all white, and bunny ears. Well-ah. My boyfriend (the bunny) is Samoan, so he’s pretty large. A large man in bunny ears and tights is … Read more
My husband’s costume was easy as he had everything already, but the doe costume was mine to make and I had a blast! I had to figure out how to make the ears so I trolled the stores looking for the perfect kind to convert and, surprisingly, no stores had ears except for cat ears … Read more
1) Started with a strong, supportive black corset. Purchased a TON of feathers online (long and short), black dance shorts, nude dance tights, and some black heels. 2) Using a glue gun, glued long feathers first onto corset for the top (bust area) then covered the rest with shorter feathers until all was covered. 3) … Read more
After scouring the internet for unique ideas on what to dress my daughter up as for Halloween, I finally found it! It was something so unique and not done at all in my tiny small town. Yes the traditional store bought costumes are just fine and I’m sure your child will love looking like at … Read more
I absolutely adore Halloween, which is not as per usual for a young person- nonetheless for a young lady. Every year I try to out do myself from the year before with an outrageous idea or unbelievable makeup. I wanted to make some sort of cat costume one year, because I love cats almost as much as … Read more
Last Halloween, my family and I got invited to a costume party, which was also having a costume contest. I was very excited because I wanted to go as my favorite animal, a sloth. My mother and I went to every single costume store around town looking for fake fur fabric, which was the hardest … Read more
So my husband (Matt) and I (Carrie) had decided that the year before we didn’t really have a creative costume. So for the next halloween we (or more me) started brainstorming ideas the summer before. After throwing out numerous ideas that didn’t appeal to my husbands masculine side (including cinderella and prince charming) I thought … Read more
How to make a black and white cow costume? First I searched around my house for black and white items to recycle into my cow costume. I began with a big black plastic garbage bag and wore it as the head of my cow costume. Then I used a large white kitchen garbage bag to … Read more
This handmade Reindeer Fursuit costume is made from faux fake fur fabric (about 3.5 yards white and 3.5 yards tan brown), thread, upholstery foam, plasti dip, slippers, paints, prisma color markers, elastic, bacalava, fleece, clay, stuffing, wire, hot glue sticks, a zipper and fake leather fabric. The head was made from upholstery foam and hot glued … Read more
I made these prettiest Peacocks for the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival this year. We got the tops from American Apparel and everything else from a craft store. It’s easy, but a bit time consuming because we made our tutus, too. Glue flamingo features to the top. Get different shades of blue, purple, brown and green for the shirt. Cut into … Read more