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
A Christmas Story is one of our favorite movies! These homemade Christmas story costumes were a definite crowd pleaser. The leg lamp costume was a little difficult to make. We cut out a pattern using newspaper to make the panels for the shade. You can make the shade as long as you want. We went … Read more
The head piece was a cat hood that I cut the ears off and sewed together. The glove covers came with the cat outfit. The suit was fabric that I found on sale at our local “mart” for $1.50 a yard (bought all they had). The body suit is the color you see, the head … Read more
I dressed up as “Buddy the Elf” from the Will Ferrell movie, “Elf”. I used a shirt that says “Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins”, one of Buddy’s favorite things to say in the movie and a hat that I made from scratch that is identical to the one from the movie (Son of a Nutcracker!!). Instead … Read more
Having always been a fan of making my own Halloween costume I decided I would “branch” out last year on this idea. I have seen many Christmas tree costumes online before but none of them had been very realistic. I spent many hours thinking of the best way to coordinate everything into making the best … Read more
Here is a photo of my two boys as Heat Miser and Snow Miser from the movie, “A Year Without A Santa Claus”. This is an old favorite movie of mine that I shared with my boys and they loved the movie and the songs that Heat and Snow Miser sing. So together we decided … 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
My 6 year old daughter wanted to be Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas but the costume did not come in her size… ANYWHERE so, we decided to make it. I headed to the local thrift store and found different fabrics to match the patches from the dress. I originally was going to glue all … 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