I made this Homemade Oscar the Grouch Costume actually the day of Halloween! I came up with the idea when my teacher offered 10 extra credit points for anyone who comes into class in a costume. I decided to stand in a trash can and say I’m Oscar the grouch, so I thought to myself … Read more
Halloween is a favorite holiday of my family; we own a restaurant and bar, and host a great Halloween Party every year. As hosts, we make sure that we go all out. This Homemade Sesame Street Yip Yips Costume was an idea that I had the week of, and made hours before arriving to the … Read more
Who didn’t watch Saved by the Bell in the 90’s? Since I have a great love for Saved by the Bell, who else would I want to go as other than Screech Powers? So, for this Screech Powers Costume, any shirt will do fine. I went with “this is why I’m hot” although I had … Read more
I asked my 4 year old grandson what he would like to be for Halloween and he said “Billy the Exterminator”. That was something I had to look up since I hadn’t seen that TV show. I started with a black t-shirt, I made a stencil of the Vex Con logo and painted it on … Read more
My daughter wanted to be a genie last year and we always try and make our own costumes so we don’t look like everyone else. We went to the fabric store and looked at the clearance fabric and bought a McCalls pattern and modified it a little. The head piece of the Genie costume is … Read more
Lucy’s outfit is an old black strapless 50’s style dress and I put a black cap sleeve t-shirt underneath. I had a polka-dot and eyelet apron in my closet and it worked great. I also bought a pair of polka dot heels for $10 off a small mall store clearance rack. I looked at pictures … Read more
We work at a doctor’s office and every year we all dress up for Halloween and throw a party for the patients. We like to choose a theme, something entertaining for all ages, and we strive to blow away the previous year’s costumes. This year we decided that treating patients all dressed up as giant … Read more
It was easy to put this Jersey Shore Adult Couple Costume together to be Pauly D and Snooki. For Pauly D – we got the wig, really large magnetized earrings, headphones, a too-tight Ed Hardy looking t- shirt, and a velvet blazer for when we went out. For Snooki – we got the wig, put … Read more
We were going back to our college town for Halloween and needed an awesome group costume – Double Dare from Nickelodeon. We hadn’t seen the costume done before and we wanted to make our costumes as authentic-looking as possible. We had a red team and a blue team just like in the show – girls … Read more
This is the second year in a row that I have dressed up as “Snooki” from Jersey Shore for two reasons. First reason, I look similar to her (dark hair, short, tan) and secondly, I was broke this year so decided to recycle some of my “going out” clothes to dress up like her! I … Read more
“The girl practically mainlines caffeine Gibbs. The guys in the mailroom call her Energizer Abby.” – Director Jenny Sheppard NCIS Our family’s absolute favorite TV show is NCIS, and one of our favorite characters is Abby Sciuto – the fantastically talented, enthusiastic, very highly caffeinated, Goth dressing forensic specialist. It didn’t take a state-of-the-art laboratory … Read more
Bork Bork Bork! I first started this Homemade Swedish Chef from the Muppets Costume with white Antron fleece, which is the fleece they use to make actual Muppets, then dyed it in a washing machine with koala brown and rose pink to get it a flesh color. I had another piece of white antron fleece, … Read more