My daughter wanted to be Cindy Lou. So off I went shopping. First I went to Value World (like Salvation Army). I was really lucky to find a black checkered dress. I bought an oversized red velvet robe at Value World. I cut it to the size of a cape. Then I went to the … Read more
I don’t know about the rest of you, but one of my all time favorite shows at Christmas Time is the 1970’s classic “The Year Without a Santa Claus”. We always watch this special as a family and I have passed down a special childhood memory of mine to our 3 kids. My 11 year … Read more
I must say, this Jack Skellington Halloween costume was definitely a nightmare! Basically, I started this costume by learning how to walk again. I used 24” drywall stilts that I borrowed from a local contractor. I must have fallen 5-6 times in about 5-6 minutes. Luckily, nobody picked me up off the pavement on Halloween. … Read more
There is nothing better than making your own Halloween costume. I started this Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas Costume with the fabric store and purchased some very cheap pieces of fabric that were similar in color to the ones in Sally’s costume. I then found an old dress that fit my daughter and laid … Read more
I love the film ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ so I decided to make a homemade Jack Skellington and Sally costume for my boyfriend Roger and myself. For Roger’s homemade Jack Skellington costume we painted stripes onto an old suit jacket and trousers, I made the bat dickie bow using wire bent into the shape of … Read more
What could be better than Halloween? Combine it with Christmas! I wanted to pay a true homage to the characters by making my own costumes. Originally I started making my Sally costume completely from scratch by taking my measurements and trying to create my own pattern, but my measurements got off and I knew I … Read more
Last year we decided to take on rolls from a Christmas story. I was the Famous “Fragile” Leg lamp, my husband, Ralphie as the pink nightmare, my son as Ralphie the sheriff taking care of Black Bart! (Costume was “recycled” from his appearance in the county fair and was not made.) For the pink bunny … Read more
The Grinch was a Santa suit pattern and then we made green fur pants and gloves and a small piece for chest hair. We then painted his face green and added black detail lines. Cyndi we found a fabric that was so close to her dress in the movie and made it out of a … Read more
This year my wife and I wanted to do something a little different so we went with classic cartoons from our childhood. We decided about a week before Halloween that we had this homemade Heat Miser and Snow Miser Halloween couple costume idea from the children’s holiday classic “The Year without a Santa Claus from … Read more
My son Zedd has always been infatuated with Tim Burton so Jack Skellington costume was a natural for him this Halloween. We researched the Jack costumes from this site and used some previous readers tips. (Thank you so much). We were fortunate to find a petite ladies suit with pinstripes at Value Village for $12. … Read more
This is a re-worked Homemade Jack Skellington Costume that I altered for my friend. He is incredibly skinny so I had to take the costume in quite a bit. The gloves were made by taking apart skeleton hands and hot gluing the pieces to a pair of black gloves. The zero was probably the most … Read more
Hi, my name is Luca, I write from Milan, Italy. Browsing the internet, I found your site which is very beautiful and full of fantastic ideas for creating costumes!! I like very much to create these things, and me and Ale, a girlfriend of mine, decided to create a couple costume of Jack & Sally … Read more