This is how I made my Beetlejuice and Miss Argentina Couple Halloween Costume Idea: (dead receptionist in the afterworld) For Beetlejuice I got a old black suit and tie from Goodwill and used masking tape to do stripes then spray painted with flat white primer paint (took several cans). The lines are not perfect which … Read more
I love Beetlejuice and always thought that I wanted to do the Miss Argentina costume but wasn’t sure how. I looked up a couple of pictures and found what I wanted. I bought the paint and found a red wig at a thrift store (very lucky). I had a red dress that I wore twice … Read more
I made this Oompa Loompa Halloween costume for my children (ages 2 & 5) by using a few ideas from this site. I created my own pattern for the Oompa pants and sewed them with heavy felt. I purchased white socks and painted brown stripes and used Styrofoam balls painted with brown swirls for their … Read more
Who doesn’t love a great Jim Carey movie? It was time to brain storm for costumes, my husband and friend were sitting around being their normal selves. And *Ding* the light bulb went on! You guys should be dumb and dumber, and at that point it was decided. I searched eBay and many thrift stores … Read more
Wayne’s World was always one of my favourite movies when I was growing up, so with Halloween around the corner my roommate and I decided to dress as Wayne and Garth for Halloween one year. We had some plain black/white t-shirts laying around so we painted Wayne’s World on hers and went to value village … Read more
Our American Gladiators Group Costume was vintage American Gladiators Zap, Blaze and Ice. To keep with the 80’s look, we went extreme on the hair and makeup with bold red, blue and gold eye shadow and ratted big curly hair. Our costumes were red, white, blue and gold themed. Two of the girls used wrestling … Read more
My company holds a costume and area decorating contest every Halloween so my buddy Shawn and I decided to take this opportunity very seriously. We decided to go with a Mario Brother theme and go as Mario and Luigi and deck out our entire work area as the original Super Mario Brothers as released on … Read more
For these homemade Pacman and Blinky costumes, I found those thin sheets of foam that come in large rolls and used that to fashion the bodies. I purchased tights, shirts and booties from discount store. Had the gloves from previous costume.
We love the painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic, so we did our own little version of a Homemade American Gothic Painting Costume. Found some farmer clothes, made a old house and added a pitchfork and viola.
For high school spirit week there was a theme every day. My friend Kara and I love spirit week. Monday was twin day. Usually people come in wearing matching socks or matching outfits. We didn’t want to do the normal thing. I don’t know how I got this idea for Homemade Lawn Gnomes Costumes, but … Read more
We simply took an old shirt out of his father’s closet and used it with a pair of khaki pants, very rolled up to see the high socks. Bought an ugly pair of bug glasses and he was done. I bought a moo moo knee high stockings and a pair of slippers. I took a … Read more