This year, I created a handmade San from Princess Mononoke costume. I purchased a purple dress, white turtleneck, and beige turtleneck from the thrift store. I cut the white turtleneck into a tunic that can tie at the sides, the purple dress into her raggedy dress, and the beige turtlenecks sleeves to create the shoes. … Read more
Because of my love for the Disney/Pixar movie “Up” I decided to would go as one of the characters for Halloween. And of course I had to pick the most ridiculous character…Kevin! I made the homemade Kevin from Up Halloween costume out of wire, cardboard, felt, fun foam, feathers and lots and lots of hot … Read more
This Homemade Megamind Costume was made by my husband. The head is paper mache and then fiberglassed. There are also foam inserts in the head so Xavier can see out of Megamind’s mouth. Light blue fabric was glue gunned onto the surface of the head. The nose was shaped by clay and covered by the … Read more
My 7-year-old son wanted to be Garfield for Halloween and he convinced his sister to be Nermal. So, my partner and I decided to join in with Odie and Arlene. I had made Phineas and Ferb, Perry and Dr Duffensmertz costumes last year and really felt I could improve on my methods. So, instead of … Read more
The Story of Halloween 2010 About 2 weeks before Halloween this year, I finally decided that I wanted to dress up as the robot chicken from the opening credits of the TV show Robot Chicken. First, I looked around on the internet to see if there already existed a robot chicken costume that I could … Read more
My band, The Chop, created these costumes by hand, each one a Superhero costume. Aquaman – two layers of green tights, one black Speedo, a belt, cardboard (for the big “A”), yellow spray paint for the belt and the “A”, a blond wig, an orange long sleeve t-shirt and green felt for the wrist bands. … Read more
Megan is all about Dora and Diego. So last Halloween I made her a Dora costume (all the store bought costumes looked really creepy and cheap; and forget about a 2 1/2 year old wearing a black wig!!). The costume is made out of sweatpants and a sweatshirt from Walmart. (I happened to find orange … Read more
My three-year-old son really loves the Miyazaki’s Our Neighbor Totoro so it wasn’t a shock when he asked for a Totoro costume for Halloween. I immediately began surfing the net but couldn’t find much of anything. To be honest I’ve never sewn any thing of substance in my life but I managed to make this … Read more
I was in a little thrift store in Guthrie, OK, last spring when I came across some white pumps with black polka dots. This inspired me to become a Cruella Deville Costume from 101 Dalmatians for our Halloween Bunco. I purchased Dalmatian colored fleece and made the cape. I found stuffed Dalmatian puppies at a … Read more
I made this costume for my youngest son (14 years) to wear to my eldest sons 18th birthday fancy dress party. In order to get the tight fitting suit I brought a bright green catsuit from my local dance wear supplier (£16), I then needed to get the trademark Riddler question mark on it. To … Read more
Every year my boyfriend and I host a themed Halloween costume party… this year’s theme was Superheroes and Villains! At first, I wasn’t familiar with the vast world of comic book characters, but I knew I wanted to find an iconic villain. When I found Harley Quinn it was love at first sight! I’ve never … Read more
This is my homemade Joker costume. I got most of the items at the goodwill and dyed them purple. It was heavy and hot wearing a real overcoat inside of places. The hair is mine. And the scars are prosthetic.