My name is April W. from Fort Worth TX.(I also made a coolest homemade Sally costume). I bought the woman’s suit jacket from thrift town for my job as a telemarketer but never got to wear it until this picture of the Jack Skellington Woman Costume. I love Nightmare Before Christmas! and I LOVE your … Read more
A plain white T-shirt, striped pants from the Thrift store and a borrowed pair of black coat tails. We purchased a $1 pair of skeleton gloves, a $1 Christmas hat and a $1 pumpkin. His tie was handmade out of black craft foam and white fabric paint. Black and white face paint finished the job … 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
My son is OBSESSED with The Polar Express. So when he said he wanted to be the Polar Express for Halloween, I did what any mother would do for her child. I made him a Homemade Polar Express and Conductor Costume! And to top it off, we used a blue suit and old TWA pilot’s … Read more
This Homemade Christmas Tree Costume began 9 yrs ago, when I made a Christmas tree costume for my 2 yr old daughter. When she won a contest that year, I was thrilled! Last year in August, I asked my daughter what she wanted to be for Halloween and she said, “Mother Nature! and why don’t … Read more
Every year we try to have fun and original costumes. Over the years we have learned to make our own costumes. This year we decided to go with a Disney theme. Babette and Lumiere are from Beauty and the Beast and these are characters that are rarely seen. We made every single aspect of these … Read more
Me and my wife are really big fans of Halloween and “the Nightmare Before Christmas” movie. I am an artist and thought I could be the Mayor of Halloween town since I have never before seen a costume as the mayor and also I couldn’t pull off being Jack (he’s tall and thin). My wife … Read more
We decided that we wanted to dress up as Jack and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas but weren’t impressed with the costumes sold at the Halloween store, so it was off to make our own Homemade Jack and Sally Nightmare Before Christmas Couple Costume . We started out by making a list of EVERYTHING we … Read more
My son was born in October and I’m a huge fan of Halloween. I wanted to dress him up for his very first Halloween and needed an easy costume for a 1 month old infant. We are also big fans of Tim Burton and we decided on doing the Nightmare Before Christmas. Daddy and I … Read more
Well my daughter just loved the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and of course she wanted to be Sally for Halloween but after much searching, the store-bought costumes were just not as cool as I thought they should be, so I decided I would make it. I went to the fabric stores and very carefully … Read more
Loving the Movie The Christmas Story and having to make a costume to go to a Halloween party my Husband Matt and I set out to make our homemade “A Christmas Story” couple Halloween costumes. I bought an old lamp shade and some fringe and hot glued the fringe to the shade, add stockings and … Read more