“It’s true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning and Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning! Phoebe’s delightful Maude is disarming… Janice Felicia Lydia…charming! Cynthia’s dashing, Vivian’s sweet! Stephanie’s smashing Priscilla a treat. Veronica Millicent Agnes and Jane… convivial company time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts I will … Read more
I made this Homemade Cousin It from the Addams Family Costume a couple of years back. I cut hundreds of threads that I purchased all the same length and then taped together using the method of laying them even on one sheet of duct tape and the covering it with another. My original idea was … Read more
Everyone always told my daughter that she looked like Alice so we went ahead and dressed her for Halloween. Their grandmother made the dress and my son’s suit from patterns. I bought my son’s hat from a costume shop and wrote the sign for it that was in the book. I also bought the dress … Read more
My family got together and decided to do an Alice in Wonderland Group Costume. We really got into the characters even talking and acting like them. The caterpillar was probably the most work. We used spray foam to construct the mushroom then carved a hole for my son’s body to go into and painted it. … Read more
These are homemade Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter couple Halloween costumes. I bought the wigs/hat/bowtie. The rest of the costume was made using a pattern and then improvising to make it as realistic to movie. Pictures from the movie were used to help put the make up on the girls just like the movie.
This is an awesome handmade Mad Hatter costume!!! When I make a costume for my kids, I try to get it as close to the real thing as possible! Every part of the costume I made by hand except the hat, I got it from Busch Gardens, and then I covered it entirely with lace … Read more
Our family choose a Homemade Alice in Wonderland Group Costume as our Trunk’R’Treat Theme. We planned it around the UnBirthday Party so we used our china and others china. We made a homemade UnBirthday cake plus we had a small eat me cake. We decided to do something that NO ONE would have expected which … Read more
I made this Johnny Depp Mad Hatter Costume myself for Halloween. I bought a normal plain black hat from a costume shop. I made all the accessories from assorted items form hobby lobby. Then used my girlfriend’s old jacket which I cut off the collar and added some fabric from hobby lobby. I made the … Read more
My brother asked me to make him a Beetlejuice costume for a Halloween party he was going to, he asked me the day before so I did not have much time. I took a black suit that he already owned and painted the white stripes down it. I copied a photo from the film off … Read more
This Homemade Miss Argentina from Beetlejuice Halloween Costume took me about a week and several trips to the fabric store but I LOVE how it came out, even though I have never really sewn before. I used a pattern for a saloon girl dress, some shiny red stretch fabric, a sheer black overlay with purple … Read more
The Beetlejuice and Lydia Costumes were put together by purchasing separate items at Goodwills and Thrift Stores around our area. The suit coat was the only part of the Beetlejuice costume that was from the men’s department. The ruffled shirt was found in the women’s department and was a size 2! I had to cut … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday. However my fiance’ said he would only dress up with me if he liked the costume. So it came down to a homemade Beetlejuice and Lydia costume. I purchased a black negligee from Salvation Army and painted a spider web on the front with fabric paint. I bought 2 pairs … Read more