I have been making my own costumes for a few years now and my motto is…”The bigger the headpiece, the better”. Every year I try to come up with some kind of elaborate headpiece that no one else would think of. One year, I came up with pageant costumes. Not your normal everyday pageant but … Read more
We took our Fox Terrier to a local contest and did very well with this easy peacock dog costume. Just take a bright blue and can have green on it, jacket ,sweater, or shirt. Then buy one of those feather type masks. Take the elastic off and attach blue ribbon to tie it on. You … Read more
This is my adopted (senior) boxer, Pearl. Our local Dogtopia (doggy daycare and boarding) has a yearly dog Howl-o-ween Costume Contest and this Homemade Canine Dr Frank-N-Furter Costume was Pearl’s entry for Halloween 2009. She ended up winning the local competition and went on to the national competition! Pearl’s make-up was done by me, by … Read more
My daughter is 7 and decided that this year she wanted to be Cruella De Ville for Halloween. Since they don’t make this costume in her size, I knew that it would have to be homemade, even though I am not a good sewer. She was very excited throughout the preparation and thrilled with her … Read more
The things I needed to make my homemade Goldust Halloween costume idea are as follows: A gold full body spandex suit. Then I used silver fabric paint and black permanent marker to draw the design on the spandex. I bought a long blonde wig with bangs, and for my face I used gold face paint … Read more
I had an old pair of gold glasses. I made the make-shift coach’s headset from two old Walkman headphones. The Seahawk vest was in my closet and the mustache was trimmed to look like his. Holding the paper to cover my mouth when I spoke was a clincher, as Holmgren did that every game. And … Read more
After seeing the cheap look of the Bob the Builder store costumes we decided to make our own Bob the builder costume. We already had the overalls and just needed a few more items which we found at a thrift store; we found the hard hat, shoes, belt and shirt. Our son loved it! The … Read more
This homemade tiger costume is almost entirely handmade. For the ears and tail, I bought some thick bendable furry stuff (kind of like a really big pipe cleaner) at ACMoore and painted it with acrylic paints (orange and black tiger stripes) after bending the ears and tail how I wanted. For the shirt, I had … Read more
My giraffe costume is made up into 6 different pieces. 4 stilts (one for each arm and leg), a neck/head piece, and a body piece. The back legs are construction boots connected to brackets on wood that creates a 3 foot stilt. The front legs are crutches that are extended 3 1/2 feet. All of … Read more
I sewed this costume from a Simplicity Sewing for Dummies pattern. I could not Halloween costume patterns on line. The costume options were a clown, tiger dog etc. I used the tiger pattern. It’s just a basic jumpsuit with booties and a hood plus cat ears and a tail. I made a cougar because we … Read more
I got the idea to do this Jack Sparrow costume after jokingly running through 4 lanes of traffic while flaring my arms. My friends said “You run like Jack Sparrow.” So I decided to go with it. I thought about it for about the next year re watching the movies and slowly getting down quotes … Read more
I didn’t feel like going to the bar for Halloween but at the last minute my friends thought it would be a good idea to go. The idea for this “girls gone wild” costume just came to me so I painted this sign in ten minutes and pinned it to my other shirt. And who … Read more