My now fiance and I always carve pumpkins for Halloween. So the weekend before Halloween we went and bought our pumpkins. He always carves the tops off and apparently when I wasn’t looking he slipped my ring into my pumpkin. When I lifted the lid I found the ring and he proposed! This brings me … Read more
For Halloween, my boyfriend and I decided to create Double Badminton Trophy costumes. We chose to be a doubles badminton trophy (boy and girl). Badminton was the easiest sport to pick as a trophy because the rackets are light and we were able to buy smaller versions to carry around with us. We also wanted … Read more
My son came home from school two weeks before Halloween and told me that he wanted to be a scuba diver. Thiscostume was so easy and very inexpensive. Originally I was going to use a black sweat outfit, but it ended up being warm on Halloween so I went with black stretch pants and a … Read more
I loved the Ultimate Warrior so much and was elated to see someone put up their costume. Here is a pic of me dressed in the ultimate warrior costume because you can never have enough UW warriors. Very simple costume: wig, facepaint, WWF belt from Toys R Us, and fabric from Home Fabric. Every party … Read more
I hadn’t the money I did in 2009 to purchase a professionally assembled costume. Since I had grown a beard (for the Blackhawks’ playoff run) I opted to use the beard to my advantage. It took no more that $40 worth of material and knowing someone with extensive sewing skills. I used a pair of … Read more
Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that and making this Fisherman in an Aluminum Rowboat Wheelchair Costume! Christopher wore a “Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me” T-shirt we made using iron-on letters. He also wore a … Read more
My son wanted to be a scary football player. So we decided to make him a Homemade Headless Football Player Costume. We placed his football socks and pants on as normal then placed a wash cloth with fake blood on top of his head. Placed his shoulder pads on top of his head and tied … Read more
We are from Boston, so of course we picked the New England patriots when thinking up this Tailgater Costume. I think it’s pretty funny how some grown men get all crazy with paints and stuff for the games so that’s how the idea came to mind. The Patriots were playing that night too so a … Read more
For the Macho Man Randy Savage costume the first thing I got was the hat then I designed the rest based on the hat. Then I got the pants and cut streamers to tape on the bottom to man then wrestling pants. For the shirt I just got a plan white shirt and bought some … Read more
As huge NBA fans, my buddy and I decided to create puppets modeled after the famous NIKE commercials. Since there were two of us, it was the perfect fit! We gathered some pictures up on the internet and threw a few grids on them to get the proper proportions. Then the fun began!!! … along … Read more
My daughter Rachel, wanted something scary but also fun to dress up as for Halloween. So we came up with a haunted cheerleader. We slit her shirt up and painted it with red fabric paint to look like blood. We also painted her white tights with red paint to look like blood. Her hair sprayed … Read more
This Homemade Deep Sea Diver Costume was done with the famous “Art Attack Mix” half white glue and half water. It took me three days of work but the result was worth it. What do you think about? It was the best of all the party.