I always try to make my own costume that is somewhat original and will closely resemble what I am dressing as while still looking like myself. This time I choose to dress as a Homemade Redneck Halloween Costume. The basics of this costume are white undershirt, plaid/checkered shirt, ripped jeans, work shoes, trucker hat, and … Read more
This Homemade Ultimate Warrior Costume was a pain to make, took about 2 weeks of research and roughly 150 bucks (and the jacket is not part of it although I do plan to buy something white if I find it and spray paint it). Finding white boots tall enough for what I wanted to do … Read more
Every year my sorority has a Halloween themed meeting the Monday before Halloween. Your “family” all dresses in theme together. My family and I all visited a huge thrift store the week before where we found the jogging suits and glittery visors. We all stuffed the suits in various areas, had a deck of playing … Read more
Because our house is divided by football teams, we came up with this fun idea to be a House Divided Costume. My husband roots for University of Oklahoma and I’m an Oklahoma State University fan. We used some cardboard boxes, spray paint and paper to create our customes. We won first place for these simple … Read more
This is my daughter (5) and her great Dane BO(3). They are a NASCAR team. We try to do something different and interesting every year. And no the dog doesn’t mind, he really loves the attention! Everything on this Homemade NASCAR Costume is handmade. Down to the paper mache helmet. The car is made out … Read more
This Blue Mermaid Costume is my third mermaid costume creation. Three kinds of fabric were used: stretchy bathing suit material for the lower torso, glowing blue raw silk for the tail, and irradescent material for the bra. The bra is easy: make a tube of fabric, pleat the center and Velcro the two ends together … Read more
My husband wore his typical hunting attire along with a mullet wig. My husband was especially excited about the wig because he is bald. We wired some antlers to a brown stocking cap for the deer costume. The antlers were a little heavy and I couldn’t turn my head too quickly! We used black felt … Read more
I saw Jorge Garcia from the show “Lost” on a talk show last year and he was wearing a fish bowl costume using a shower curtain. I then used my skills as a former Pre-K teacher and added my touch to make this Homemade Fish Aquarium Costume. I got the box from the lost ‘n … Read more
This Homemade Wrestling Ultimate Warrior Costume was made from anything you can find around the house. Hope you like it.
I put this Homemade Hulk Hogan Costume together with a muscle shirt, red tights, a hulkamania shirt, a hippie wig that I trimmed and used the extra for the stach, some spray painted army boots with red shoe laces, some shades, bandana and a couple of wrist bands. And ofcourse the heavy weight champion belt! … Read more
When my son told me what he would like to be for Halloween, my three year old daughter piped up with “I want to be a Happy Dolphin”. She made it a point to make sure I heard the Happy part; she could not be just any old dolphin, she had to be a Happy … Read more
We dressed up like a Candy Raver Costume in 2007. The costumes were super cheap to make. We went to the dollar store and bought tons of neon and then dug through Jane’s closet to fish out some of her old outfits. The costumes were a hit and I will definitely repeat it one Halloween. … Read more