I had a blast making this Homemade Rorschach Costume. It was not too much work and a lot of people thought I was badass even if they never seen the movie. I started by going to local thrift store to find the trench coat, I found one but it was a little to light so … Read more
This was one of the first years ever that my friends and I decided that we would actually fully dress up without having to try and look sexy. So I thought this would be my perfect chance to make a Homemade Roger Rabbit Costume. I started out by buying everything piece by piece including Red … Read more
Our family loves the movie “UP” so we all picked characters we wanted to be and set out to make a do it yourself UP group Halloween costume. My husband and I shopped thrift stores for weeks to get our costumes completed. My husband found a shirt, sports-coat, bowtie and even the four-legged cane (complete … Read more
Last year one of my best friend’s, my girlfriend and I decided to do a group costume. After shooting ideas back and forth for a couple weeks, we decided on the Thundercats Group Costume. I was responsible for making the Lion-O and Cheetara costumes. So after studying some pictures from the internet, and some old … Read more
This Wonder Woman Halloween costume was easy to make! I purchased all articles of clothing for this outfit from a used clothing store. The bottoms were made from the bottom of a bathing suit. The silver stars (and red stars on my gold accessories) I found at a dollar store and glue gunned them onto … Read more
My boyfriend and I loved this movie, and I thought it would be a great costume for Halloween. So I got started on my Homemade Disney Pixar’s Up Costume with a few cardboard boxes, some acrylic paint, a little clay and glue, and here’s the final product! It took about 15 hours total. The house … Read more
When my children wanted to be Last Airbenders Aang and Katara from that popular TV cartoon show, I looked online for homemade Last Airbender costumes. I nearly fell off my chair when the lowest price I found was $59! So I Googled images of the characters to see if maybe I could make the costumes … Read more
This year I decided to dress up as my favorite Disney movie. The movie has a special meaning to me as it was the first movie I watched in my new house with my boyfriend (which we moved into last Halloween). Since it was the house the characters moved into and grew old in, it … Read more
My nine year old daughter wanted a Homemade Lumpy Space Princess Costume (LSP) from Adventure Time, and this was not a costume that we could purchase. We found a basic purple shirt and leggings at Target to use as the base of the costume – cost was around $10. Next we went to the fabric … Read more
I chose to be the 80s cartoon rocker “Jem” of Jem and the Holograms for Halloween. It was a fun costume and really stood out in a crowd. For the dress – I took a hot pink blazer that was many sizes too big for me. It was long enough on me to work because … Read more
There’s actually a history behind the concept of this Beauty and the Beast costume… my wife’s favorite movie is Disney’s masterpiece “Beauty and the Beast”, and I took her to see it in the theater when it first came out (she was 14 — which was quite a few years before we were married). She … Read more
My 6-year old son came up with his own costume idea this year: Superhero “Freeze Flame”. He sketched his idea on paper and then I did my best to recreate it as his costume. “Freeze Flame” is made up of half fire and half ice and so, after much humming and harring over the right … Read more