Awesome DIY Vampire Costume with Articulated Wings

Vampire with articulated wings

Ever want to have a great vampire costume with wings that retract and expand without emptying your bank account? This is the one for you. To do this cool wing effect, you will need the following: 8 eyebolts, lots of washers, short machine screws with nuts, two long threaded bolts without heads, dirt bike vest, … Read more

Original Empty Nesters Homemade Couple Costume

Empty Nesters

Our 4th daughter left for college this year, so our “empty nest” was the inspiration behind our Halloween costume.  We decided to dress up as chickens whose chicks “flew the coop”.  All of our daughters are in college right now so in the cracked eggs (paper mached balloons using flour, water and salt and scrap … Read more

Artistice Homemade Maria Franz Tribute to Heilung Costume

Maria Franz; a tribute to Heilung

Here’s the end result of multiple all nighters and classic rock binges! The Maria Franz costume was a combination of sketching, sewing, painting, and sculpting; all entirely completed by hand. The antlers were created using an aluminum base with nails and wire for support. A sealed layer of tape was then applied in addition to … Read more

Amazing Homemade Viktor The Machine Herald Cyborg Costume

Viktor- The Machine Herald

This costume from start to finish was a 3 month endeavor in which I had to learn the basics of robotics and 3D modeling. I love costuming and always try to make the characters I love while adding cool and creative features to bring them fully to life. To replicate the armor on the character, … Read more

My All-Natural Bob Ross Costume

My All-Natural Bob Ross Costume

My name is Kyle and I have a special little gift of being able to grow out my own Bob Ross inspired Fro! I’ve been growing out my hair for exactly 12 months – that’s right folks measures 9 inches tall and all natural! I found out I had this gift only 6 years ago … Read more

Scary DIY Tooth Fairy Costume

Scary DIY Tooth Fairy Costume

While brainstorming my Halloween costume this year I took inspiration from my greatest childhood fear….the dentist.  As a child my father would let me watch horror movies I wasn’t supposed to watch while my mother was working. Freddie, Jason and Michael never even fazed me and then came the 1996 movie the dentist.  I was … Read more

A Two-Faced Costume Liars and Backstabbers Would Kill For

A Two-Faced Look Liars and Backstabbers Would Kill For

I am wearing a suit tarnished with fire (appropriately), clay, and paint. The face was done with prosthetics, glue, and face paint. I did it for a small local party and it was truly remarkable to be taking pictures with people, being sure they got my bad side. I’ve always had an affinity for special … Read more

Scary Mickey and Minnie Mouse DIY Couple Costume

Scary Mickey and Minnie Mouse

The inspiration for my scary Mickey and Minnie Mouse couple costume came when I was brainstorming what to be for halloween. I like to take a well-known, usually cute, character and make them scary. While I was trying to think of a character, I saw a snippet of Ratatouille, which made me think of mice, … Read more

Coolest Homemade Yzma and Kronk Couple Costume

Pull the lever Kronk!!!

This Emperor’s New Groove couples costume is one I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, but I was a bit intimidated by the project and wasn’t really sure where to start. It required quite a bit of creativity to craft a feathered collar and feather plume for Yzma, but I was able to … Read more

Cool DIY Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation Look-A-Like Costume

The BEST Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation Look-A-Like

Whew, where do I start with describing this Janet Jackson costume? I could not find a jacket for starters, so I decided to go thrifting and BINGO I found the perfect jacket. I started by finding the logo online and printing it out in different sizes and cut it (for my hat, earring, jacket, and … Read more

Coolest DIY Plastic Toy Soldiers Group Costume

toy Soldiers/Army men

This was my family’s Halloween costume for our annual party. My husband and I are both Air Force military vets so we saw this fitting. For months our family of 5 searched second hand stores, yard sales and flea markets to find old fatigues, belts and military what nots. Then came the paint… We painted, … Read more

Creepy Ghost Dolls Costume for Twins

Creepy ghost dolls

Although this creepy ghost dolls costume took all day it was definitely worth it! It was sad not being able to go out and show the world our costume but it was fun to creep our family out. Must take advantage of having a twin!