A couple years ago I really wanted to be a Rabbit in a Magic Hat. I already had the rabbit ears and tail. I used lipstick and eye pencil to draw the nose and whiskers on my face. The hat was the tricky part. I don’t sew at all, so first I went to the store to … Read more
Body paint is an excellent way to show off your creativity. Just like a painting, no two strokes are the same- so you are guaranteed originality. What I used for this zebra costume: BODY: black and white Snazaroo face paint. false lashes black high waist shorts two black bras (one low cut dress bra) black … Read more
Wanting to create a cute costume I grabbed my scissors and sewing kit and started turning a big bag of blue felt into a lovely bluebird dress. To add a little flair I grabbed some blue ostrich feathers and a beak. Once I put everything together, the realization was obvious… I was the twitter bird. … Read more
We got a lot of laughs for these crazy Cat Lady and Cats group costumes! For the Crazy Cat Lady I used a pajama with cats on it that I already owned and sewed all my daughter’s stuffed cats all over it. The makeup was inspired by Mimi off the Drew Carey Show. And I … Read more
I used white make up as a base and a black makeup crayon to draw on all the stripes on her arms, back and chest. For her face, I used special face white base and black face makeup with a brush. The make-up took close to three hours and was a blast. I had never … Read more
My daughter wanted to be pink poodle. It was much easier than I had originally suspected. We started with one pair of pink sweatpants and a pink sweatshirt, one size larger than she wears. I bought 2 yards of pink “fluff” fabric (I can’t remember what the name of the fabric was.) Last but not least, … Read more
I’m obsessed with Twitter and was in a national contest on the social media network the year I did this. It was only right I do a little more shameless self promotion and dress the part. What you’ll need: XL light blue t-shirt Feathers (If you can find light blue- perfect! If not, get white) … Read more
I was a pink flamingo and my boyfriend was a garden gnome- the Travelocity gnome to be exact. My costume was pink boas sewed to cover a shirt skirt. I didn’t want to wear a mask because I wear glasses, so I took a cheap eye mask and covered the eye holes to make them … Read more
Last Halloween my then four year old daughter wanted to go trick or treating dressed as the family pet, our Bernese Mountain Dog, Berkley. I thought it was so sweet that she liked him so much she wanted to be him for Halloween. So I got to work planing in my head how I could … Read more
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? That question may be impossible but these Chicken and Egg costumes are pretty simple to construct. The chicken is just a shirt or leotard with two white boas attached every few inches. Then I had to die some tights yellow. To make the hat I found a white … Read more
Sexy Exotic Birds group Halloween costumes…not sure why we chose to be birds but we had our vision and well it looked and sounded fun so we went with it. We obviously chose our colors and bought a lot of boas and a lot of feathers. Our face mask we bough plastic plain masks and … Read more
First off let me just say how hard it was to convince my boyfriend to go along with wearing this Disney’s Donald and Daisy couple Halloween costume. He asked for manly so I bought him a an under armor shirt and white nursing pants and a sailors hat. Everything else I purchased the fabric from … Read more