On March 7 2009 my cousin Mary & her husband, Bob, hosted a Guitar Hero World Tour party. I had just over a week to pull this Gene Simmons of KISS Costume off! I started of with the boots, which were a regular pair of work boots. Formed 2″ wood to the bottoms & screwed … Read more
Each year a group of eight of us have to come up with a unique costume idea for an event we have called the “Beaver Convention”. I won’t get into the convention itself, but the idea we chose this time was “Beaver Herders”, a male celebrity escort service. We had the likes of Hugh Hefner, … Read more
Love the rock band KISS, wanted our costumes this year to be over the top and I think we did it. It took a lot of time and effort by definitely worth it. We all worked as a team on this Homemade Kiss Group Halloween Costume, each had a different task. The most challenging was … Read more
This is a homemade Lady Gaga bubble costume from her first tour in 2009! The “bubbles” are made out of plastic balls that people usually put stuff into and use as an ornament for a Christmas tree. I basically raided every craft store in my area for the different sized plastic ornament balls and spent … Read more
This year I really wanted to go all out with my costume, and make it. So I decided on a Lady Gaga costume, who better when wanting to make a statement right? Dress: For the dress we bought a wedding dress at a thrift store and made it into a mini dress( any white dress … Read more
For my Homemade Mister T Halloween Costume, I bought black furry material and some brown skin tone.I also purchased some strings of gold beads. After 3 attempts at making a beard and mohawk, this was the end result.
I’ve been planning this Homemade Classic Mr. T Costume for about 6 months, and made sure to try and get the look down perfect. Despite the must items: haircut, and jewelry, I think the feather earrings and overalls put it over the top. It was easy to put together. I just used old overalls from … Read more
My son, Kevin, age 8, wanted a Homemade Young Billy Mays Costume this year in honor of the late great Pitchman. He says that Billy Mays was a good advertiser with his great booming voice – and for our son, whom we are always having to tell to turn down his voice volume, this was … Read more
The Homemade Bobbits Couple Costume (John & Lorena). We have a costume Halloween party every year and we wanted something nobody else would think of. One day the vision of this costume came to me so I put it into reality. It was so easy to throw together too. For John’s costume: hubby just wore … Read more
So I was stumped for an idea on a costume of 09. I was about 7 months pregnant and couldn’t think of anything so I was looking online and there was pregnant women dressed as beer belly’s, as farmers holding a pumpkin( their belly’s), but I thought to myself what would I be more comfy … Read more
I started this Homemade Chiquita Banana Girl Costume with the love of Chiquita Bananas! I handmade this outfit over a year. It seems I keep adding and adding more fruit! I am 5’5″ and with the headpiece I am now 7′ tall! I give out all Banana flavored treats with this costume, Banana lip balms, … Read more
This coolest homemade Flavor Flav costume was relatively cheap last Halloween. It was company appropriate and everyone enjoyed it. I got the viking hat from any regular costume store. The clock had to be right so I found one with some ling on it. The jump suit came from Walmart, nothing too fancy, it’s just … Read more