I have to admit, we were struggling to come up with a creative costume idea this year. We racked and racked our brains for something current and topical, but we came up with nothing short of the cast of Twilight. We were about ready to settle on Edward, Bella, and Jacob when a marvelous opportunity … Read more
Started making this Mortal Kombat Scorpion DIY Halloween costume idea in August of 2010. Saber-sawed a paintball mask and painted it with the exact design of, in my opinion, Scorpion’s coolest mask, got the shoulders from my friends football uniform, got a pair of fire yellow (non-prescription) contacts, which really brought the costume to life, … Read more
This Homemade Pac Man Halloween Costume was easy to make although was a bit time consuming. I gathered all the cardboard I could find and cut out 2 large 3/4 circles. Then I joined the Pacman shaped sides to a long strip of cardboard using string,zipties and duct tape, which made it 3 dimensional. I … Read more
Our first Halloween party in our new house had to be memorable… So we came up with the perfect costumes! Mr. and Mrs. Pacman! Becoming the duo wasn’t too hard. We used hula hoops, covered them in yellow felt, and added the facial features using felt cutouts. Yellow sweatshirts and black sweat-pants under the costumes … Read more
My wife and I needed an idea for Halloween couples and since our family plays video games together with our kids, we thought a Mario and Luigi Halloween costume would be good. Plus, the kids loved the costumes. I purchased all of the items from a Hancock fabric store (except the gloves and shirt, shoes) … Read more
My husband wanted to be a Shadow Priest from World of Warcraft in the old school Dread Mist set. So, we showed my mom a picture of the full set and off to work she went on this Homemade Shadow Priest in Dreadmist Costume. We bought the cheapy broadcloth and she just kinda whipped it … Read more
We are poor college students, so we wanted to do our Homemade Mario and Luigi Couple Halloween Costume for cheap. Instead of buying overalls that we would never wear again, we took some old jeans and cut them up to make the overall fronts. We bought our hats for about eight dollars and just added … Read more
I have been obsessed with Alice in Wonderland for as long as I can remember. After reading the books and watching numerous film versions, I have become quite fond of the darker versions of Alice. The Disney version is way too sugar coated as it is with all of its renditions of fairy tales. My … Read more
I sewed 14 costumes this year for my grandchildren. No matter how we tried, we couldn’t talk Kallan out of being Link from the Wii game, Zelda. His brother, Riley, wanted a costume so he could “fight, fight, fight!” I had to look on the internet to see what Link even looked like. I knew … Read more
We wanted to make these homemade Mario and Princess Peach costumes look as realistic as possible, and I think we did a pretty good job. Mario: We found rather cheap overalls on eBay and was able to find a red long sleeve shirt at Goodwill. We also found workboots at Goodwill that were already old, … Read more
So this yr we decided to dress up as Super Mario Bros characters, since my 4yr old son wanted to be Luigi. Dad was Mario, baby brother was Toad and I was Princess Daisy. For the Mario and Luigi, I simply purchases overalls with red and green long sleeve shirts. I found 80% of the … Read more
Me and my friend didn’t want to have to go in overalls all night so we went to Silviana in the mall and got the shirts which are just red and green long sleeves. The skirts we got on sale at Wetseal but Charlotterusse carries some and so does Silviana. We got the white gloves … Read more