Ultimate Homemade Ursula Costume

Ultimate Homemade Ursula Costume

For the past few years, I’ve wanted to be Ursula for Halloween. I looked online, but to my dismay, every “plus size” Ursula costume I found was barely that, running a size 14-16, which is about a 1x. I found that hilarious since she is one of, if not the largest Disney villain, and stores … Read more

Creative Play on Words Bud Lightyear Costume

Creative Play on Words Bud Lightyear Costume

This Bud Lightyear costume was such an easy costume to make. I already had a Bud Light shirt that I cut, but you can just tape a Bud Light symbol onto your chest too. I bought Buzz Lightyear inflatable wings at a costume store for $10. I used purple and green duct tape, and at … Read more

Homemade Maleficent Goes to the Prom Costume

Homemade Maleficent Goes to the Prom Costume

The inspiration for this costume happened to coincide with my 25th High School Reunion. We all decided we really wished we could do a “prom do-over,” because, well, we all remember prom. When the last Maleficent film was released – a story of the sadness and rage that drives this dark fairy who never got … Read more

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

I love shopping at our local second hand stores for items I need!  I can usually find everything I’m looking for.  This is were I found all the clothing for our costumes including yellow shirt/purple pants for Ferb (just had to hot-glue on finishing touches on the shirt), striped shirt for Phineas and skirt/shirt for … Read more

Alice in Wonderland Group Costume With a Twist

Alice in Wonderland Group Costume With a Twist

Hi there! At my job, we are BIG on Halloween every year. Everyone dresses up and the groups of people are always different. This year, it was groups of three and it was picked at random by drawing numbers! For the past three years, my group has always won, so I knew we had to … Read more

Coolest Kwazii Octonaut Costume

Coolest Kwazii Octonaut Costume

Calling All Octonauts To The Launch Bay, Peso, Shellington, Dashi, Inkling, Tweak, Tunip. Hmm, we are missing Kwazii. Where can Kwazii, the silly pirate cat be? Sound the Octo-Alert because we have found our mission – search the deep blue sea for Kwazii. All Octonauts to the launch bay, it’s time to Explore, Rescue and … Read more

Coolest Tim Burton’s Sally Costume

Coolest Tim Burton's Sally Costume

We always have a themed Halloween party at work and we REALLY get into it! This year’s theme was undead/living dead. And since I’m not very good a scary, I thought I’d do something cute. I immediately thought of Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas because she is such a recognizable (undead) character and wouldn’t require much … Read more

Coolest Oogie Boogie Costume and Baby Sally Doll

Coolest Oogie Boogie Costume and Baby Sally Doll

We named our daughter Sally, after the character in the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. My plan was to dress up in an Oogie Boogie costume and carry her around not only for Halloween, but a horror convention as well. My first problem was that there are very few homemade Oogie Boogie costumes to buy and the … Read more

Authentic Frozen Family Costume – Elsa, Olaf, and Kristoff

Authentic Frozen Family Costume - Elsa, Olaf, and Kristoff

Elsa This year I decided the costume theme our family was going to be as Disney’s Frozen. I was completely mesmerized by frozen (like the rest of the world) and knew I had to make that dress! More than that, I felt like Elsa’s ‘let it go’- helped me on a personal level as well. I … Read more

Regal Narnia Susan Costume

Regal Narnia Susan Costume

Hello Coolest Homemade Costumes, my name is Kendall Veronick and I am 15 years old. This year, one of the four costumes I made was Queen Susan from Narnia. These costumes took me a month and a half to complete, I didn’t really do any of the costumes in order; I did some of one, then went … Read more

Homemade, Movie Quality Anna and Elsa Costumes from Frozen

Homemade, Movie Quality Anna and Elsa Costumes from Frozen

Before the movie ‘Frozen’ even came out, we knew we wanted to be Anna and Elsa for Halloween the following year. We would like to note that this was before Frozen became popular. We spent many hours online comparing dress patterns, fabrics, and materials as there was no preplanned design available at this time. Neither … Read more