I spent 5 hours painting cutting and making this DIY dice couple Halloween costume idea. Instead of walking around we rolled around! It was fun. Sadly I entered 3 costume contests and each and every one people chose store bought costumes. What happened to Halloween? The best part is to make something and be creative. … Read more
This is a Homemade Lion Tamer Halloween Costume inspired by Brittany Spears concert wardrobe. Red tails and a fringed skirt over an embroidered bodice that laces up the back. There are no other children’s lion tamer costumes out there. Roar!
I have this fascination with Circus Side Shows, so I decided to go as a Three-legged Side Show performer. I made the skirt from cute polka dot material, wore a vintage bustier, some mis-matched tights, painted my face white with pink cheeks, and topped it all off with a glittery little top hat. I made … Read more
Using foam core and brick contact paper, I created a building wall where it meets the sidewalk, including a sidewalk all the way to the curb (always overly ambitious, I also built part of the street with the drain and the manhole cover, but those had to be cut from the costume due to size … Read more
This is my Mother Nature costume. It started out as a tree costume for a charity event at a wild life preserve. I have been lucky to get to wear it a few more times for green festivals. This costume took quite a bit of time to make. It is made of vines, leafs and … Read more
Here I am roasting marshmallows: Cardboard Foam (red, yellow, orange) Puffy Fabric Paint Foam soda can holders sticks red shirt brown pants sharpie Red and Orange Hair Paint Cut and paint cardboard to resemble logs Cut foam into flame shapes adding puffy paint for detail Use sharpie to draw log pattern on pants Paint foam … Read more
I made this Lawn Gnome costume for my boyfriend for an impromptu costume party. I made the hat out of poster board and red felt. All I needed was a glue-gun! I found the clothes at a thrift store and the white beard at a costume store for only 5 bucks! Entire costume cost under … Read more
About two weeks before Halloween, my friends and I were discussing our costumes. One friend suggested a gnome and everyone laughed out loud. You see, I’m terrified of gnomes specifically yards gnomes. I have no idea why, they are just creepy looking. So the Roaming Gnome began as a joke. All my friends knew of … Read more
I wanted to make my little girl a fun and funky caterpillar costume, so I sewed bright donut shaped pillows out of fun fur with elastic bands on the top and bottom of each one. Then I attached them to each other with tights sticking out in between stuffed with stuffing. Her legs and arms … Read more
“The bush” is a double meaning costume. Let’s begin with how this concept came about. It started that I wanted to be poison ivy because she has red hair as do I. So I decided I would make it myself because all the poison ivy costumes I saw were too cheesy for my taste. So … Read more
I decided that I wanted a Homemade Birdhouse Costume this year so I started with a moving box that I spray painted brown and cut a hole big enough (at the front) in it for my head to see out of. I then painted windows on the other sides of the box and taped with … Read more
I started this creative Halloween costume with an egg shape cut out of cardboard. I cut the edges inward and duct taped them to get the curve just right. I duplicated this for the bottom portion of the head but cut out a gap for my son’s head to slide into. The “lips” are made … Read more