I took a cruise of the Mexican Riviera the first week of October 2010. While shopping in Masatlan Mexico, my husband purchased 2 Lucha Libre masks for our nephews (6 & 4). Naturally, when we gave them the masks, they decided that was what they wanted to be for Halloween. The blue costume is Alexander … Read more
My husband wanted to do a costume that was unique from everything else out there! We like to play tennis so we got the idea to cut a tennis ball in half and make it look like it was lodged into his head! All we had to do was get a tennis ball, used a … 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
This year my brother came to me and said he wanted to be Macho Man Randy Savage for Halloween and that he needed my help to make his costume. Together we compiled different pieces from a bunch of his costumes and got to work. The jacket was bought from Value Village, I bought sticky paper … Read more
As you can probably assume, my husband came up with this Homemade Ditka & Refrigerator Perry Couples Costume idea. As a true football fanatic he had always wanted to dress up as Mike Ditka, however we couldn’t figure out the perfect couple pairing. Then one night after a few drinks he and his friends came … Read more
For my Billiard Ball costume, I took a pattern for a tennis ball. Any pattern for a round object will do. I cut out the pattern in black felt (since magic 8 balls are black). I then traced a round plastic lid onto white felt and cut out. I printed out an 8 from my … Read more
I dressed up as a deer and my husband dressed up as a hunter. We put a bulls eye on his stomach and I carried around a plastic shot gun. We got GREAT compliments on our Homemade Deer Hunting Costume and people couldn’t stop telling us how original it was!
We decided to become a basketball team, inspired by the 70’s and 80’s. Our team, “The Outlaws” needed a Homemade 70s Basketball Team Costume! After looking for jerseys and shorter shorts and having no luck, we found some red jerseys, which one of the girls added to with stars, a number we chose, and each … Read more
In honor of the Crocodile Hunter who my boys loved to watch, we came up with this Crocodile hunter costume. I went to a local thrift shop looking for a khaki colored shirt and found one that actually had zoo animals on it which was perfect. I also found Safari hat/binoculars and a pair of … Read more
The theme for Halloween was WWE Wrestlers and I love to paint my face. So who better then Sting!! The Homemade Sting from WWE Costume was very simple. I got the black and white face paint, a wig, cut the wig down to size, and the rest I made myself. I borrowed my uncles long … Read more
We had another costume lined up for my son, but it ended up being too small, so this was very last minute. Mens doo rag that I tied to fit his head. Then I cut a piece of a child’s blonde wig and sewed it to the back of the doo rag. I cut the … 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