I started my Cupcake costume with the cupcake wrapper. I took thin tubes of PVC pipe and made two circles, one a little bigger than the other, and attached them together with straight tubes of pipe. I spray painted a folding window shade silver and wrapped it around the PVC frame. I tied fishing line around … Read more
My sister and I love Batman so we went with this theme and made a Batman Villain Ladies group costume. We started months in advance. I was two face and I took a white button down shirt and white jean shorts and dyed half black and I used toilet paper and Elmer’s glue and black and … Read more
My best friend and I wanted to a duo costume for Halloween 2011 at Ohio University. We both loved the movie “Black Swan” and wanted to go as the Black and White Swan ballerinas for Halloween. We purchased black and white leotards and tutus, feathers, jewels, white face makeup, feathered fake eyelashes, and I had … Read more
I pride myself on never repeating costumes and making them the most creative I can think of. Last year I think I had a pretty good winner. Luckily I am in marketing and had some help getting this bad boy printed. I had it rigged with a weight lifting belt so I could tighten it … Read more
I worked on the Maleficent costume for about a week on and off, everyday. The biggest challenge for me was doing the collar, since I had to figure out a way for the collar to be huge and stand up at all times. The exaggeration on the horns was deliberate, I wanted them to pop … Read more
Here is my son in his Davy Crockett AKA Daniel Boone costume created by his grandmother. She used a faux suede fabric for jacket with coordinating trims, and super cool wooden buttons. For the shirt a tan broadcloth fabric was chosen with fabric ties added. He is wearing an authentic hand made coonskin hat which is going to come in … Read more
Every year since our second son was born we have pretty much tried to make matching costumes for both boys and after they were Run DMC and getting great feedback from that the year before we couldn’t think of exactly what they were going to be until a week before Halloween this year. Came to … Read more
My boyfriend and I just loved the movie Anchorman so we thought it would be a great costume! We won our friends Halloween costume contest that year and we still have friends talking about our Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone couple costume from Anchorman to this day! Each costume was really easy to make and cheap: … Read more
I like to be a popular celeb each year, so 2 years ago I was Snooki. I bought a clubbing dress that I might wear again ( I havent yet). I bought a pair of slippers from Zellers and the Snooki wig, I got rinestones from the Dollar store and stuck them to my sun … Read more
This homemade child scarecrow costume from The Wizard of Oz was my son’s request for a costume. I started by making a hat from black felt. I simply cut a large circle and then made it into a cone. I pushed in the top part to blunt it of and then cut a brim from … Read more
This Sarea Moko, The Wind Exorcist, is an original character I came up with and decided to bring to life. Sarea Moko is the last of her clan on a mission to bring vengeance on those who wronged her. She is a fun design bringing elements of post apocalyptic and of the orient. She took me four … Read more
This Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen couple costume was a fun costume idea that did win us a cash prize at a party. We were trying to think of something fun and different and came up with this. Craig is 6ft 7in and made a really ugly Brigitte Nielsen. He is a black man and … Read more