Here comes Peter Cottontail,Happy Easter (I mean Halloween) everyone! While I did buy the actual Peep costume that my son is wearing (I’m no seamstress!), the rest of this Peep in an Easter Basket Costume was made by me. We took my son’s wagon and started out with a “box” frame. I purchased 4 different … Read more
I am a big fan of the movie Christmas Vacation and I wanted to recreate my favorite character Cousin Eddie for Halloween. I went on Ebay and found a short white robe that was similar to the one Cousin Eddie wore while pumping out is RV(15$). I also went on Ebay and found a white … Read more
My best friend John and I capitalized on our tendency to pretend we are a fancy, posh couple of the world with our Homemade Dia de los Muertos Bride and Groom Couple Costume. I am so lucky he is willing to be part of most of my life schemes, and he’s a great backup for … Read more
I wanted a costume to be funny and to get completely into the spirit of Halloween and I wanted to make it myself. So I made this Paper Mache Pumpkin Costume. I made a large ball by stuffing construction garbage bags with torn up newspaper balls and then covering the bag with paper mache newspaper … Read more
My daughter wanted to do something different this year so I came up with the idea to do an Easter Basket. It then led to her being in the basket and if she is in the basket she might as well be the Easter Bunny! So to make this Homemade Easter Bunny Basket Costume we … Read more
When my son was younger he enjoyed dressing up as animals. This year (2007) he wanted a Homemade Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Costume. I used a child-sized sewing pattern for a bunny for the main body of the costume. I cut freehand the ears, antlers, nose and hoofs. The eyes are made out of … Read more
I have always loved Day of the Dead art, so why not dress like it! I bought an old wedding dress from the thrift store and began cutting. First I cut of the sleeves and zipper since it was too small, then I added grommets and turned the back into a corset style dress. I … Read more
When Halloween came around for our 6 month old baby it dawned on us how much fun we could have using his name–Jack–as inspiration for ideas. For that first one we decided on a Jack O’ Lantern. But having a touch of Irish in him, we wanted to mix things up. Instead of an orange … Read more
This is one of the easiest costumes I have done. A few skirts from around the house and a sombrero I bought on eBay, and with the help of a little snazaroo face paint(anything else will run) and viola! I painted mine and his face myself. Total cost for both 60$
This is a Homemade Dia De Los Muertos Couple Costume my wife and I wore to a Halloween party. The paint is water based and I used an airbrush to paint the black base and a hand brush to paint the bones. My wife made the colored paper flowers.
My two girls wanted matching costumes this time so I decided that since I hadn’t purchased pumpkins this year I’d make them Jack-O-Lanterns. This was really easy to set up. I took two over sized orange t-shirts and stuffed them with plastic garbage bags. I then dressed them in green and put these orange stuffed … Read more