This Homemade Woodland Fairy Costume was made from an elastic waist skirt from Dollar store, with torn tulle in 3 shades of green that I sewed on in rows. The wings are wire frame, with pantyhose; spray painted, and embellished with flowers and stones with a glue gun. I dyed a turtle neck and leggings … Read more
This Homemade Headless Horseman Costume was made after 2 hours of looking around and driving around shops. I was aware my son wanted something different this year and was going through obvious possibilities and trying to think of each year in turn. We both play World Of Warcraft and all I wanted was to go … Read more
My mother in law and I sewed up these Pregnant Twiddle Dum and Twiddle Dee Costume. We bought a monkey pattern and tweeked it a little! We did not add a tail and we made mittens for the hands, then we sewed the feet into the costume. It really did not take us too long. … Read more
Never Neverland! Our son, Elliott, really wanted to be Peter Pan for Halloween so we went along with the theme, creating a family costume. I was Wendy, my husband Bill was Captain Hook, our daughter Lucy was Tinkerbell and Elliott, of course, was Peter Pan. I bought the patterns for all 4 costumes and made … Read more
This is my 6 year old Jake dressed in a Ron Burgandy costume. It couldn’t have been more simple. He already had a little suit and tie, so I slicked his hair over and gave him an awesome mustache made of mascara. We also had him find his toy microphone from his toy box and … Read more
This Homemade Na’vi Avatar Unique Halloween Costume Idea is what I made for Halloween this year. I ordered blue latex paint online and yellow UV contacts. I purchased normal light blue and black paint from the local craft store to paint stripes over top of the liquid latex. Over the stripes I then applied glow … Read more
After seeing Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland this year, I was determined to make the White Queen costume, played by Anne Hathaway. I always make my costumes, and swear against using any “off-the-store-shelf” costumes. This White Queen costume was definitely the hardest I have ever made, and took over 50 hours of work. Difficulty: Moderate Time … Read more
My boys love horror movies and asked if I would let them be scary for Halloween. Being an avid horror movie lover myself, I agreed. My eldest twin loves Jason and couldn’t wait to be him. I thought that having his twin play Freddy would be a great play on Freddy vs Jason since the … Read more
Yes… this was the coolest black swan costume!… The starting point was getting a simple corset and a tutu. Then we got lots of crystals of different sizes (or “bling” as I call it :)) and glued them one by one in a nice pattern on the corset and the tutu similar to the way … Read more
Here it goes, well I am a big fan of scary movies. And we were looking for a costumes for my 10 month old baby boy Damian. There was a lot out there but nothing that caught my eye. One day the Bride of Chucky came on TV and that got me thinking, my son … Read more
I really enjoyed the movie Clockwork Orange and I had always talked about dressing up as the main character for Halloween at some point, but never really got around to putting it all together in time year after year. This year though, Halloween is on a Friday and there are lots of parties, so I … Read more
For the better part of the movie, Juno wears a Slinky t-shirt. I created this t-shirt by drawing the design in Adobe Illustrator and printing it on an iron-on-transfer ($10.00 per package) and ironing it onto a t-shirt (less than $5.00). There are Slinky t-shirts now available online. The jeans and the hoodie were clothing … Read more