I’d wanted to do this Homemade Dia de los Muertos Costume for a long time and was so lucky to finally be with someone who is as crazy about Halloween as I was! For the “body” part of the costumes, we bought turtlenecks, gloves, socks/slippers and I bought leggings, too. We had conflicting ideologies as … Read more
I was looking for a costume that was a little different this year. My son wanted to do a transformation since I had made princess transformation costumes for my daughter the years before. My daughter wanted to be a princess. After some convincing, my son agreed to do a magic carpet costume if he could … Read more
This year we decided to be Dumb and Dumber for Halloween. I really wanted to make it extra special this year, so I decided to use our carpet fragments from a recent remodel in our home to create the Mutt Cutt’s car! My hubby has a cute little vintage MG, and it was the perfect … Read more
Homemade butterfly costume designs: So my girls wanted to be butterflies for Halloween this year. Well, I did not want to go and buy some cheap (or not so cheap) butterfly wings, when I knew that I could make them myself. And while I was at it I did not want them to be tiny … Read more
After weeks of debate, my husband and I finally agreed on the perfect “couple” costume – Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Garden Gnome Costumes. We had an absolute blast making our costumes together too! Our costume-making adventure began with a trip to the local second-hand stores where we found the base outfits. For me – a … Read more
I wanted to wear something a bit more colourful than the usual Halloween costumes here in the UK (skeletons, witches and ghosts etcetera) and was fascinated by the “Day of the Dead” celebrations in Mexico, especially the vibrant costumes. I did a bit of research and decided to use my grandma (who had died a … Read more
This homemade costume isn’t for our kids.. it’s for our wagon :-). After our youngest son’s first haircut, we made jokes about him looking like Lloyd Christmas with his straight across bangs. And then we realized that his older brother had hair exactly like Lloyd’s sidekick: Harry Dunn. That is when we decided that they … Read more
I can’t express enough how happy these costumes made people! We wanted to do something completely original last year for Halloween. Since The NeverEnding Story was one of our favorite movies from both of our childhoods, we decided on Falcor and Atreyu NeverEnding Story Couple Costumes. Falkor had to be LARGE, since he’s a larger-than-life … Read more
As huge Rocky fans, my buddy and I decided to create costumes modeled after the Rocky III movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T. We gathered a ton of pictures to get the Rocky and Mr. T Couple Costume as close as possible to the real movie. The costumes were all made from scratch and … Read more
This Homemade Darkness Costume from Legend was my second attempt at creating this iconic movie monster; Darkness from “Legend”, a fantasy movie from the 80’s starring Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. Looking back at my previous effort, I must say this one came out much better. I learned a great deal from Halloweens and conventions … Read more
This is a photo of my husband Todd as the Empire State Building and my son Max as King Kong. My husband dreamed up this idea of a Homemade King Kong and the Empire State Building Costume while we were pregnant with Max. He told everyone how he was going to be the Empire State … Read more
For years my girlfriend Libby has wanted to do a couples costume. Now she loves two things; Halloween and Gina Davis, so what came to mind? Adam and Barbara Maitland from Beetlejuice of course! I am no stranger to making costumes, and have created The Fly, a full size LEGO Man and two Rock ‘Em … Read more