On a family trip to Chicago one weekend, our family walked into a costume shop just to look around. My husband spotted a “Max” costume and we thought it was fitting since our son’s name is Max. Unfortunately it was too big, but it lit a spark and we decided to make it a family … Read more
The main construction of the Buzz Lightyear costume is in a garbage can turned upside down. I then marked up the garbage with the desired shape. Once that was done I proceeded to cut the shape out. I cut out holes on the sides for my arms and a hole on the bottom for my head … Read more
This year my girls wanted to be something fun and original for Halloween… again. Every year my girls come up with bigger, better and more original (i.e. complicated) ideas. I don’t know if I am going to be able to keep up with their ingenuity in the years to come. My youngest wanted to be … Read more
Muppets are big this year. PBS under fire. Brought out the Yip Yips to make a stand for the Muppets, as well as bring back a little bit of our childhood. Was so great to see people light up and smile when they saw us or when we were chanting ‘yip,yip,yip..ring,ring,ring’. People loved taking their … Read more
For my 21st birthday (which was conveniently Halloween 2012) my mom and I got together to make by far the coolest hand made Princess Peach costume I have ever had the chance to wear! Unfortunately, neither my mother or I had any experience in costume making or sewing so we bit off a lot to chew. At … Read more
This is my Iron Man Halloween Costume for Halloween 2011. The Iron man movies being such a big hit, influenced my decision to make this costume. I wanted to make it fairly realistic but still have a cartoony feel to it. Using my two favorite things, cardboard and colored duct tape, I constructed this costume over … Read more
Each year for the past 11 years my group has dedicated hundreds of man hours designing, creating, brainstorming, and scouring stores of all kinds; thrift stores, craft stores, hardware stores, online stores, and all stores in between. We search for just the right pieces and ideas to help our characters come alive! Dozens of cans of … Read more
My daughter is a huge fan of Lord of the Rings. She designed this costume and asked me to make it for her. She wanted to look like she belonged in Middle Earth without exactly copying a costume from the movies. She wanted to be a strong female character and she wanted to carry a … Read more
Every year we do homemade costumes and every year are boys costumes, all go together! This year we decided to do LMFAO since they LOVE them!! They love to dance and sing their songs and know them all by heart. So the fun began and I started making the costumes. I bought the zebra pants … Read more
Like most people, I wanted to do something extra special for Halloween and I have always been a fan of making my own costumes for fancy dress events. It was actually through the brilliance of this site that I saw the processes some people went through to create a ‘Mystique’ costume, one of my all … Read more
I was really into playing American McGee’s Alice and feel in love with the main character. I wanted so badly to be this character for Halloween and one of my coworkers mentioned his wife was just getting in to sewing and making my costume would be good practice for her. I went along with the … Read more
I had so much fun putting together the Mrs. Lovett costume. I checked several photos, watched the movie again (3 times for mannerisms) and checked several homemade costumes as well. I noticed that I don’t have to look exactly like Helena Bonham Carter’s (HBC) character, which was encouraging. The best advice I can give, is … Read more