Oh, the drama!! We decided our original “drama queen” needed a costume that would suit her for Halloween. We shopped the local Goodwill store and found the perfect bridesmaid dress. We added matching shoes to complete the look. The tiara was purchased at the Halloween store, but I have seen them year round in stores … Read more
My name is Stacey and I dress up every Halloween and I am like a kid. I have to have something new or different each year. I have been like that since I could walk. I kept trying to come up with something this year that I hadn’t used in the past 30 years and … Read more
I liked the idea of a “cereal killer” and wanted to make it cute so I looked online and saw that fake blood along with mini cereal boxes seemed to be the way to go. -I bought fake blood and a fake machette at the local party store -plastic knives -an assortment of mini cereal … Read more
Our friends had a Halloween party and was low on cash so I had the idea to make my own costume. It took about 2 hours to make this one night stand costume. I used a giant cardboard box, then painted it with craft brown paint, found some old cheap cabinet knobs and a little … Read more
Last year I decided to make my own costume instead of buy one. I came up with the idea of dressing up as a Cereal Killer by searching different creative costume ideas online. The Cereal Killer costume idea came up a few times online, however, not exactly the way I made it. I had so … Read more
I went as a mail order bride last Halloween, my costume only cost like $35. I borrowed the dress from my boyfriend’s parents who have a huge collection of Halloween costumes, I got the box, the stickers and the bubble-wrap from the FedEx store. I got the fake cheesy flowers from AC Moore. My veil … Read more
I am a fan of really original and fun Halloween costumes. This year I had a pretty strict budget and I really had to get the creative juices flowing. I came up with the homemade Mail Order Bride costume idea from a political cartoon I saw of a bride jumping out of a mailbox. I … Read more
Since I am a white little girl I decided to play it up a bit. I went as “White Trash” to an awards party. I used a trash bag as a dress, a chain of rubber bands as a belt, trash from my friend’s lunches during a week at school and plastic wrap in my … Read more
My friend and I were party animals for Halloween. I dressed up as a peacock, and my friend was a lion, then we accessorized with party hats and party horns! I purchased a blue dress, black tights and black boots. In addition, I made a Chinese fan to create the fan of feathers. I hot … Read more
I saw a store bought costume called “One Night Stand” while I was out looking for parts to my costume for the character ‘Alex’ from Clockwork Orange. I thought it was really clever, but I didn’t pick it up at the time thinking I would just do the Clockwork Orange costume. I later found out … Read more
I had this idea to do a unique play on words costume and though I am not an artist my wonderful hubby is. At first he thought of one thing but I thought that idea would take up too much time so we put our heads together and came up with this homemade butter-fly wordplay … Read more
I had heard of this costume before but having seen the version available for purchase I was extremely disappointed so I decided to try and make a Homemade One Night Stand Halloween Costume myself. I started with simply a large brown box and quickly realized that it would be too big to have the arms … Read more