My daughter wanted to be Jessie for Halloween this year! We are always big on homemade costumes! I thought this was going to be a cinch! Well it was a lot of work, but we think it turned out great!!! We started with a plain white polo and a pair of jeans. I made the … Read more
Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday. Every year I try to wear something different, go to parties, decorate my apartment and make all sorts of ‘scary’ treats… so imagine my dismay when I moved to Australia and found that no one here celebrates Halloween! Since I came here, I have felt Halloween-deprived. This year, we … Read more
We decided to dress up as Wall-E and Eve for this Halloween. Here is how we made our Homemade Wall-E and Eve Couple Costume: For Eve’s costume, I bought a white 22 gallon trash can with a push/swing lid. I cut a hole for the face and hot-glued the other side of the lid to … Read more
A flat-screen TV box was used for the body and tracks. This was folded and molded into itself to create a sturdy ‘just the right size’ body. We used Pringles cans for the arms and the fire extinguisher. The hands were made of duct tape and the top of the fire extinguisher was made from … Read more
After moving to Canada from Australia last year I never realized how many people get into Halloween here. Wanting to get into the spirit of things, I decided on a costume/character that I could easily construct, remain unique and something that people could easily identify. I couldn’t go past the fact that Logan (Wolverine) in … Read more
My daughter is Cinderella. My mother-in-law made the Homemade Cinderella Halloween Costume. It’s all handmade, every piece of it!
I’ve wanted to be Doug and Skeeter for awhile and finally found somebody this year that wanted to do it with me. I’ve seen a couple of Dougs around the years but never with a Skeeter. We decided to make the Doug costume his alter ego Quailman. The majority of the things needed for the … Read more
This Captain America Woman’s Costume is a female version of the superhero Captain America, very easy to make and looks great! Started with an old red corset and sewed strips of white material down it to create the stripes. Sewed shiny blue material around the top of the corset and ruched in the centre. Using … Read more
I was at a thrift sale and I found a super pink prom dress that started the whole Homemade Adventure Time Family Costume. Not perfect, but it worked. Found a white hat for Finn and made his backpack out of a Goodwill t-shirt. Cut a hole in the hat and used the fabric to make … Read more
A blast (off) from the past. Homemade Care Bears in Space Group Costume. I made these costumes over the summer to wear to Disney’s Halloween time at California Adventure. They were hot to make during the middle of summer because it was like having a blanket on your lap the whole time, but they were … Read more
My daughter Laura is a huge Donald Duck fan. This year she decided she wanted to be Donald for Halloween. She also convinced her cousin to dress as Daisy so I had to try to come up with not one, but two duck costumes. I had a vision of a Homemade Donald Duck and Daisy … Read more
Made this Iron Man Halloween costume (by myself) out of 5/8″ and 1/2 inch thick(polyethylene) foam yoga mats, hot glue and other items found at thrift stores. Used scissors and X-Acto knives to cut the mats. Took about a month and devoted at least a couple of hours a day working on it. Made patterns … Read more