This Homemade Corpse Bride Halloween Costume was more of a challenge for me than the scary clown was. I wanted to look as accurate as I could; basically, I wanted to look as much like Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride as possible. I bought a white wig and a bouquet of black roses. I went looking … Read more
This Homemade Master Shake Costume took about 10 hours total with my girlfriend helping me. First I bought a 4×8 piece of wall liner from Home Depot. The wall liner is white with a textured and smooth side (use the smooth side for the outside of the costume). It feels like a stiff piece of … Read more
I decided to dress as Dora the Explorer for Halloween because I’ve always said I looked just like her when I was a kid. My boyfriend then jumped on the opportunity to dress as Boots and so we created these homemade Dora and Boots couple costumes. To make the homemade Boots costume I hit up … Read more
Darkwing Duck was a cartoon from 1991. They also made into a Nintendo game a little after that. The Homemade Darkwing Duck Costume is made up of a Joker costume jacket cut to fit my every need, various buttons and fabrics from a few stores, rubber boots, a daisy duck hat cut and turned into … Read more
My nephews were dressed in the Chipmunks costume for Halloween. I bought red, green, and blue long-sleeved turtlenecks from the thrift store. I already had the yellow felt for the A on Alvin’s shirt and the red baseball cap. Then we used Harry Potter glasses for Simon. The shoes we got at Wall-Mart for $5/pair. … Read more
My son has been giving me a real hard time the last few months (terrible two’s) so I decided he needed to dress up as someone determined to destroy his mother, who else but Stewie Griffin! Every year I do my best to make our costumes with stuff from the second hand store. For this … Read more
Ever since I saw Iron Man the movie I loved it and always wanted to make my own costume, so I did. I bought cardboard and metallic paint and some led lights. I really did put my time on everything to make it looked like the real thing. I used cardboard and super glue to … Read more
This Dr. Zoidburg from Futurama Costume is very easy and very impressive to others. We got the lab coat and scrubs from a store, but the face and claws had to be constructed from scratch. We took a red binny hat and stretched it over his face. Marked where the eye, nose and mouth holes … Read more
I’m a bit of a pack rat, and I’ve had about 20 yards of this red plush fur cluttering up my house for a while. I finally decided to do something with it, and this Looney Toons Gossamer costume was the end result. I started with a costume pattern that was actually for an “Elvis” … Read more
This Incredible Hulk Costume was a hilarious costume to wear because everyone thought I was a boy…I originally got the Hulk idea because I wanted the Hulk smash hands… so this is how it all started. I bought the Hulk t-shirt from a website, got green tights, purple sweat pants (cut the bottoms to look … Read more
My boys usually do some sort of common theme when it comes to their Halloween costumes and this year when we decided on Pinocchio. We knew we didnt want to go with the common Pinocchio/Geppetto or Pinocchio/Jiminy Cricket pairing. So we decided to go with a Homemade Pinocchio and Lampwick Couple Costume. For those of … Read more
This is my nine year old son max who came up with this Hellboy costume idea about six months before Halloween. We usually try to make our own costumes every year and there is a local costume contest that we have participated in the last five years. The fist is made up of two different … Read more