I originally saw this Rooster/Chicken costume on a famous craft women’s “Living” website. It was a child’s homemade costume and I figured I could follow the same directions only larger. I purchased a white long sleeved leotard, and a short sleeve white leotard, yellow tights, white Boa feathers ( from an online discount store) and … Read more
As a single dad of twins I wanted to create something special for me and my girls. I started the project of the Family Costume: Cops, Robbers and a couple bags of baby money by using off white colored pillow cases, I cut them down to size. Then I stenciled dollar signs with a card board … Read more
The best part of this Publisher’s Clearinghouse Prize Patrol couple costume was making the GIANT check! It was also the most time consuming part. We toyed with names for the check for a couple weeks and then finally found Dixie Normous! In the opening scene of Austin Powers, Gweneth Paltrow pulled her helmet off and … Read more
My wife and I are pictured here last Halloween. I’m the one on the left, wearing the oven and thrusting forth my five-month pregnant belly to make the turkey stick out just a little bit more. My wife is on the right, turkey baster in hand with her chef hat reaching toward the sky. She’s … Read more
Okay, okay, before you say anything, I know there may be some people who feel it is not appropriate for a toddler to dress up as Chucky. BUT I assure you my son had not watched the movie! He was not even two at the time, and didn’t appreciate the irony of the costume. He … Read more
I love the movie Avatar and decided to do a homemade version of the female Avatar costume, since the store brand doesn’t have sizes that fit tall people too well… (I’m 5’11). 1. I ordered a light blue unitard from a dance distributor, and I painted over it with a mixture of dark blue and … Read more
I love making unique Halloween costumes for our annual costume bash. Hosting the party makes me want to be different and not have a costume that someone may show up in. It was a little challenging at first , trying to figure out what to use. Mr and Mrs Potato Head were fun to make and … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided to go as Pikachu and Ash Ketchum for Halloween last year. He went to Value Village and picked up some items to give him the white t-shirt and the blue vest and hat. HE HAND SEWED the vest to the shirt and wore a black shirt underneath and even added the … Read more
The internet has everything you will ever need to create a costume…the hard part is coming up with an idea! This SNAP, CRACKLE and POP woman’s group costume was created with a mix of: eBay (plain shirts and tights) Amazon (hats) Dollar store (felt for buttons, letters on hats, and Pop’s shoulder pads (structure: cardboard), and … Read more
We wanted something we’ve never seen before but was the essence of Halloween! The Seven Deadly Sins! We put together what we thought each deadly sin represented. Greed was all about the showing of MONEY she wore gold and a money boa! Lust we went for a sexy school girl outfit complete with glasses and … Read more
In 2008, a couple of girlfriends and I thought it would be a great idea to bring back some of the 1996 “Magnificent Seven” Women’s Gymnastics team for our Halloween costume. That summer, there were many other Olympians, like Shawn Johnson or Michael Phelps so that is why we decided to go back in time … Read more
This original Roxy Richter from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World costume was very easy to make, and super fun to wear! I bought the wig, and found the dress at a thrift store, as well as a black zip up hoodie and just cut the hoodie in half. I got some black fishnets and tore … Read more