Halloween is my holiday. Every year I rack my brain to think of something to trump previous year’s costumes. This year I just happened to be watching Bram Stocker’s Dracula and remembered how much I loved Lucy’s Bride dress. Especially the head piece. And then it hit me like a lightening bolt! I quickly grabbed … Read more
My five year old is a huge fan of the new Star Wars movies. We bought him the movies, and he loves to watch it over and over. To our surprise his favorite character is the short lived Com. Gree. So he has to be Gree. So we went out to the local Target to … Read more
I am a Musketeeress, as in a lady-musketeer! The sword I am holding inspired this Homemade Musketeer Costume idea. It is a souvenir that used to belong to my grandpa-in-law (my husband’s grandpa). I am not sure what he used to use it for, but this thing is not a fighting sword actually. It’s more … Read more
My husband and I decided we wanted to have easy and comfortable costumes since we were hosting our first Halloween party at our house. For Wayne, I purchased a plain black shirt and hat to which I used a fabric paint marker to put “Wayne’s World” on the hat. Both sets of jeans and Garth’s … Read more
My Costume was an Orlok… The Gloves and Mask are made of Silicone… The Coat and Cloak were made by my wife from McCall patterns and took 3 weeks to make… My pants and shirt were just black… I bought 2 pair of work boots and took the soles off of one pair and screwed … Read more
We started the annual process of picking out what to be for Halloween this year and could not figure it out for the life of us. We took a trip to the local thrift store, saw the leather jacket and BOOM we had it!! We decided on a Homemade Bad Danny and Sandy from Grease … Read more
I’ve always loved the pink panther and thought it would be a really fun and creative Halloween costume. I searched online for some ready-made costumes, but found them all to be pretty lame, so I decided to put together my own. For this homemade sexy Pink Panther costume I purchased a pink leotard, pink tights, … Read more
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