My husband and his best friend are big fans of the movie Smokey and the Bandit. They can quote the whole movie, so we decided it would make great Halloween costumes. We have a Halloween party every year and we always chose original homemade couples costumes. My husband is a stickler to details so for … Read more
This was my homemade Terminator T-650 costume for 2009. It was made out of cardboard tubes, poster board and Styrofoam. It was connected to my back by a metal rod in the pelvis, and rods on its toes, connected to my feet, gave the illusion that it was walking behind me in the guise of … Read more
Already owned the sunglasses, khaki pants and grey sneakers. Purchased the wig and kit for an actor’s facial hair from a local Halloween store. Ordered the classic “Alan” t-shirt and leather satchel off the internet. All together, this Homemade Alan from The Hangover cost very little and people everywhere were stopping me the entire night … Read more
Basically it was a couple weeks before Halloween and I hadn’t figured out my costume yet but I knew it had to be completely ridiculous. I knew I wanted to be something everyone knew but I didn’t want to be boring. I had been playing around with the idea of being someone getting eaten by … Read more
I am a huge fan of Sheri Moon Zombie and decided to be Baby Firefly for Halloween. I already had the skull snake skin cowboy hat from my Rob Zombie concert gear stash. I had a friend help me take my House of 1000 Corpses Rated R t-shirt and make it more “Baby”. She helped … Read more
This Rocky Horror costume is Magenta and Riff Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show. We used an old tailed tux jacket for Riff Raff. My husband has thick black hair but we used a latex rubber bald cap kit from a costume store and glued that sucker down with special latex adhesive. Then applied make-up … Read more
When my high school group decided to throw a Masquerade party, I had to decide whom I wanted to dress up as. Quickly, my love for pirates and for the film “Pirates of the Caribbean” made me certain that I had to create a Cap’n Jack Sparrow costume. Savvy? I was taking sewing lessons that … Read more
These costumes were inexpensive and very fun to make. For Thing 1 and 2, I purchased red-footed sleepers ($5 a piece at Target), cut out 2 pieces of white felt in the shape of circles and wrote “Thing 1” & “Thing 2” in black marker, then safety-pinned them to the front of the sleepers. For … Read more
This is our Homemade Addams Family Costume for Halloween. My husband was Gomez – we got him a dark suit, red tie and big fat cigar. He has a mustache drawn on with an eyeliner. I was Morticia, I wore a long black wig and long black dress. My son was Uncle Fester. We bought … Read more
This entire Mad Hatter costume was hand made, except for the teapot purse which was found on ebay. The vest was made from a pirate costume pattern, the jacket from a lion trainer costume and just a normal shorts pattern for the pants. The hat was made out of 2mm foam and covered with the … Read more
This year for Halloween, my boyfriend and I dressed in Homemade Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat Costumes. My costume was very easy: I bought 3 pairs of striped tights, one pair I wore as regular tights. With another pair I made a top by cutting a hole in the crotch and holes in the feet for … Read more
We have twin boys, so in thinking what they could be for Halloween, we thought Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum! That started the whole family thinking and everyone started picking who they wanted to be from the Alice in Wonderland movies. My oldest girl (10) wanted to be Alice. I found a pattern I really … Read more