One day, I was just browsing through the costumes at the local thrift shop. I came across a short lion costume (no legs, no arms, just a body with tail and hood). It was only $6, so I bought it. Originally, I had planned to just allow my daughter to use it as a costume … Read more
My son really loves pirates so I decided to look in this wonderful website and I got a lot of great ideas on a pirate costume. I didn’t want to spend over twenty dollars for the pirate costumes at the department stores so I went to the thrift store and came up with my own. … Read more
I made this Homemade Boy Fairy Costume, apart from the wings which I bought, when I couldn’t find anything I liked. I modeled it after “Terrance” from Tinkerbell. So he is a Sparrow Man which is a fancy way of saying a ‘Boy Fairy’. My biggest fear was that it would turn out too girly … Read more
This naughty forest nymph costume was made for the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands last April. First of all I have to admit, I bought the corset, but only because I didn’t have a pattern to make one. The idea came with the skirt. It was an old wedding dress that I used as … Read more
This Homemade Zombie Mormon Costumes is our version of zombie mormons. We beat up an old bicicle helmet, and used black spray paint on an old tire and rolled it across the shirt, then we scratched up the pants, and used some grey and black makeup, this was a fun costume, everyone enjoyed it, you … Read more
This Thing 1 and Thing 2 Dr. Seuss Costumes is a super easy costume to make. I put it together the day of Halloween. What you need: red shoes/heels, red leggings, a long red shirt and a blue wig. I bought white fabric and wrote Thing 1 and Thing 2 in magic marker and used … Read more
Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my homemade Ash Halloween costume!!! I’ve been making my own costumes for the past 5 years but this is the most involved that I have done so far. After seeing a tutorial on making the chainsaw hand, I decided that I would go for … Read more
My dad and I are really big horror movie buffs. My mom, brother, and sister, not so much. So, when they all left for a week-long vacation, we took the opportunity to rent a bunch of horror movies. I had read “Carrie” several months ago, and I decided to add the 1976 movie version to … Read more
I decided on making a Homemade Chucky Halloween Costume. I purchased the overalls and stripy shirt from a St Vinnies shop for $12AU, bought a wig, some white contacts and used makeup I already had at home. I added “good guy” to the overalls with red tape. The wig was blond when I bought it … Read more
Every year I would buy my kids costumes. Last year with the economic crisis I decided that I was going to make their costumes. I used stuff that I had around the house. Chucky: I used a striped shirt and a blue pair of old overalls. I used foam letters to glue on the words … Read more
This Homemade Ash Costume from Army of Darkness cost me about $45. I bought a broken chainsaw from a garage sale and took out the motor so it wouldn’t weigh a ton, then to Home Depot for some PVC pipe and rubber grommets to hold my hand in place. I got a screw on PVC … Read more
I had been wanting to do the leg lamp from ‘A Christmas Story’ for a long time, and finally put it together this year. I made the lampshade out of muslin and sewed in French seams to hold the boning. After adding all the boning, it needed to be stiffer, so I added wire as … Read more