This Little Bride of Frankenstein was a “night before” Halloween costume with very little money to be spent! First we filched an old twin sheet from my husband’s grandma…ok “filched” is a strong word, she knew we were taking it so I guess that isn’t filching. We soaked it in strong coffee for a couple … Read more
I chose to be LeeLoo, the perfect being from the movie Fifth Element. In order to make this Homemade LeeLoo from Fifth Element Costume, I bought a short orange wig with bangs and sprayed some black strips in it because that is how it looked in the movie. Then I cut a regular white tee … Read more
For the Thing 1 & Thing 2 costume I sewed 3/4 of red knit fabric the width of their body, added white circle felt and simply wrote Thing one Thing two on it. And for the detail at the top I hand sewed it pinching the fabric together and ran the needle across inside where … Read more
This jacket started off as a tablecloth from Goodwill. The pants came from a pants suit at Goodwill as well. I wanted to get a really close fitting jacket, so I used Simplicity pattern #3628 as my base. I am a pretty novice seamstress but since I could make this w/o a collar, sleeves, or … Read more
My name is Brad from Sirbrad’s Horror FX, and I design life-sized movie quality costumes of horror icons. I specialize in Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Madman Marz, Jeepers Creepers, Terminator, Leatherface, and many more! I have been featured on DVDS and the official F13th website several times now. I grew up on horror … Read more
For Halloween I made a Golden Snitch costume, aka a Quidditch ball from Harry Potter. To make the round part I paper mached around a large exercise ball, which took about 20 coats to get to the thickness desired. I then did the detailing on the sides based on some rough pictures I found on … Read more
Last year we went as ‘The Wizard of Oz’, so we went with another fantasy novel this year – ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’. We used graduation gowns from a thrift store for the kids – I duct taped ‘hemmed’ them, and found white collared shirts in our closet. We did dye Harry … Read more
I chose a Reagan from Exorcist Costume. This was a pretty simple costume to make, and the outcome was outstanding. I won best costume for this. The easy part, the attire: I bought a brown wig and ratted it up a little bit. At the thrift store I picked up a blue, lacy, cotton night … Read more
Hermione is intelligent, practical, and at some times, bossy. I love how much she cares and how hard she always works. This Coolest Hermione Granger Costume is a fairly easy costume to put together because chances are, you already have the parts! I first wore a white collared blouse (my mom had one) under a … Read more
My 18 year old daughter loves Lord of the Rings and this year she wanted me to make her a costume from the movie. I was very surprised when she told me that she wanted to be Lurtz! I have been using plumbing pipe insulation (will refer to it as foam) for several years to … Read more
I had my Vivian Ward (aka ‘Pretty Woman’) costume made from scratch using a wife beater, the blue fabric and some metal rings then having a seamstress put it all together for me. I bought a green canvas bag (that i still use) black patent boots, a blond wig and a little black hat. I … Read more
This Satine Costume was actually for a movie character theme party my roommates and I held. Once I figured out I wanted to be Satine as well as which costume of hers I was going for, I had to figure out how feasible it was. It turned out to be a lot more complicated than … Read more