I got the idea for this Homemade Fred and Wilma Flintstone Costume from this site. I made the Wilma costume out of white fleece. I used elastic to hold the neck together. I made the necklace and earrings out of Styrofoam balls I bought at a craft store. Fred was made out of orange fabric. … Read more
Happy Halloween! I wanted to be Ursua the Sea Witch becasue she is one of the most bad a$$ women villians ever! I gave her a edgier look for night time use and a more covered look for the kids! DAY LOOK INCLUDED HANDMADE CLAY SHELL NECKLACE made from modeling clay and spray painted gold. … Read more
Makinzi is 6 years old and a dreamer. She wanted to be a LITTLE MERMAID for Halloween. The problem with store-bought mermaid costumes is that the tail restricts movement so we decided on a Homemade Little Mermaid Costume. I made her tail fin from 6 in strips of overlapping twill. This allowed her to move … Read more
For years my boyfriend Brady and I have brainstormed costume ideas and I have always created them. This year…MERMAIDS! Well, I was a mermaid and he was a merman, but not just any merman. We decided to make things interesting and create a “manmer” of sorts. Top half fish, bottom part human. Not only did … Read more
This year my son and I had aspired to create the ultimate costume. After careful collaboration we concluded that one of the greatest villans to ever wreak havoc, with a sinister look was none other than SKELETOR, from Mattels’ Masters of the universe. We decided to make the end result of our Homemade Skeletor Halloween … Read more
These are our cool homemade Monsters Inc. family costumes. I dressed as Mike, my husband was Mike and our little girl was Boo. For Mike’s costume, I used 9 layers of paper mache over an exercise ball. Be careful not to cover the plug so that you can deflate it and save it for another … Read more
My daughter wanted to dress up as Celia from the 2001 Disney Monsters Inc. movie, the only problem was the costume didn’t exist. So like any good mother I started brainstorming how I was going to pull this Homemade Celia Monster Costume off. I had to make snakes for her to wear on her head, … Read more
This is what you need for your Homemade Mystique costume: Blue Paint, Plastic Circles from Walmart, nose and scar wax, adhesive, red hair spray, orange contacts, unitard, and glue. My costume took 12 hours over the course of 4 days, I molded the wax into circles, squares, and rolled it in to long thin strands … Read more
The setting could not have been more appropriate the first time I saw Nightmare Before Christmas. At seventeen-years-old, I remember stepping out of the last showing of the theater that foggy autumn night of 93′. My family had yet to arrive to pick me up and as I sat down on the curb to wait … Read more
Jack and Sally from Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas! When I decided to make these Homemade Jack Skellington and Sally Halloween Costumes I wanted to make sure they were authentic and as close to the characters as possible, right down to the very last detail. Everything you see was hand-made all except for Jack’s mask … Read more
Jack’s head was created by using a plastic bounce ball covered in paper mache, then when it was dry I popped the ball and pulled it out. His bow tie was made with wire to make the long wings; which I covered in fabric. The Styrofoam was molded into a bats head. I also used … Read more
Hi! I’ve always found the movie, Nightmare Before Christmas to be a Fascination! I’m not sure what it is about it, but it’s mesmerizing. So, I decided this year to create my own Sally Stitches Costume. I’ve tried to make it as close to authentic as possible. It’s a LOT of work, but the end … Read more