Starting from the bottom: The shoes are just some plane black shoes I purchased years ago for a school girl costume. I am wearing dark tights underneath pink fishnet stockings. The cup part of the homemade cupcake costume is a large lamp shade I found at a thrift store. I had to saw out the … Read more

We started this Homemade Chocolate Cupcake Costume by looking for a hula hoop to provide the circular shape of the cup, but it’s fall here and no one sells hula hoops. So we headed to Home Depot and my engineer-brained boyfriend constructed two hoops, one slightly smaller than the other, out of plastic plumbing pipe, … Read more

My boyfriend and I love tasty sweets! He asked me to be his girlfriend using edible letters on cupcakes, so this Homemade Cupcake and Baker Costume was a MUST. For the base (the cupcake liner), I safety-pinned an old cylinder laundry hamper until it was about a foot tall. I folded 3 poster boards accordion … Read more

This homemade cupcake Halloween costume design is made of an old lamp shade in the bottom with paper folded like an accordion sewed onto the lamp shade. The pink parts are old grandma’s curtains (braces and tube top), the white tulle and lace is a gigantic skirt made of tulle just pressed upside-down in the … Read more