One of my favorite movies of all time has to be Heavyweights! I watch it quite often and seeing it recently gave me the idea of a homemade Tony Perkis from Heavyweights costume, the new camp director at Camp Hope. If you don’t know who he is, or haven’t seen the movie, I suggest you … Read more
For Halloween this year I wanted to be something very unique and not just some same old sexy police, or sexy Alice In Wonderland, I wanted to be something that no one else was. So when I was in Halloween Horror Nights, I tried on the Jigsaw mask because I love Saw and it hit … Read more
My Mrs. Lovett costume is from the movie Sweeney Todd. Mrs. Lovett is the Baker who makes meat pies out of humans that Sweeney Todd has killed. I made the skirt, used an old shirt I had and bought a corset to put over it. Then I bought a rolling pin and put blood all … Read more
For my Homemade Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Costume, I first found an old dress and jacket outfit. I attached fake birds that you can purchase from floral supply stores or craft stores all over my costume. Then I dribbled fake blood on the costume and my arms, legs, and face. Then I attached a few … Read more
So ,I got the Homemade Alan and Carlos from the Hangover Unique Halloween Costume Idea from watching the Movie “The Hangover”. I went online and researched some movie photos. I searched about 20 stores for various parts (mustache, beard, baby carrier, etc.). As I was trying it on for the first party, I couldn’t stop … Read more
We decided on a baseball league costume from a girls in a league of their own. We made the dresses and then sewed on the buttons and what not. We wore red socks and cletes and even put our numbers on the back. We had a friend be Jimmy Dugan and made the same version … Read more
This is a picture of my husband dressed as Pai Mei from Kill Bill Volume 2. Since the hair is all his own (he usually has a three foot braid down his back) he loves a costume with a “hair theme”. It is first sprayed with white hair spray and then powdered with baby powder. … Read more
I made this from mint green material purchased for $2.88 a yard, $1.00/yard lace, an eBay-found crown which I re-strung to better fit Arwen’s crown, some dimensional fabric paints and a small bag of plastic rhinestones. The dress is a simple A-line dress with a short train and large sleeves. The upper sleeves and collar … Read more
With three month old twins we thought it would be cute to do Thing 1 and Thing 2. As a big Dr Seuss fan my 3 1/2 year old was excited to be the Cat in the Hat costume. Cat in the hat: we already had a black leotard and black leggings so all I … Read more
For this Wednesday Addams costume, I braided a black wig for her hair. I bought a black dress with puffyish sleeves. The dress was short sleeved so I had my daughter wear a long sleeve black shirt under. For the collar and the cuffs, I cut up an old t-shirt and pinned to the dress … Read more
Lurch, Gomez with Thing on his shoulder, Morticia, Grandma Addams, Wednesday, Cousin Itt, Pugsley, Uncle Fester. Everyone’s costumes were put together/ made. Everything was selected by myself or my sister specifically for each person. We work very hard on making our group costumes look as authentic as possible including this Homemade Addams Familly Costume.
This is how the Alice in Wonderland group costume was put together: The Mad Hatter-shirt and pants are from the closet and I dyed an old lab coat orange (store-bought shoes and hat, wig and bulb nose). Alice’s dress is from a pattern (store-bought wig and shoes). March Hare pants are from the closet, shirt … Read more