We made these Tom and Jerry costumes in just two days! It’s an easy and fun costume for couples. The accessories we used are: a pan for Tom the cat and a cheese for Jerry the mouse. The cheese was made from kappa boards that we glued together and painted with acrylic colours. The holes in … Read more
My sorority had a date party themed “compound words”. The guy I was taking is named Sandy, so when we first started brainstorming ideas, I came up with a few words that incorporated his unique name – sandcastle, sandwich (sand-witch), sand-dollar, etc. As I kept trying to come up with more words with sand or … Read more
We made these costumes (for Gene Simmons) by using a plain black shirt and putting studs on and sewing the belt. We rolled up cardboard to make the spikes. We spray painted a kid’s toy guitar. I also did the makeup by outline the black then filling it in, then the white. The boots were … Read more
I made these Ronald McDonald and Hamburglar costumes for my boyfriend and his friend, as we were all going on a night out. Everyone on the night out all worked at McDonalds including these two. We kept their costumes as a surprise. Everyone found it hilarious and quite ironic how they dressed up. When we … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided to be Scotland for a beer Olympics party in light of the current Scottish independence vote. We both love Braveheart and saw it as a perfect opportunity to make a super easy hand made costume and still look bad-ass. All I did was buy a blue and white face-paint pencil, … Read more
Well, it all started when my son who has aspergers and OCD decided he wanted to be a minion for Halloween, when he did, my other two did as well, so I looked at a lot of ideas, and didn’t find any easy way of making them. This is how I Built the Minion Costumes: … Read more
Our Miss Piggy and Kermit couple costume is such an easy and fun costume for couples. I bought the pig nose online, already had a pink dress, opera gloves, blonde wig and feather boa. For Kermit, I just sewed felt triangles onto a green t-shirt, painted his face green and added the headband – these were … Read more
We love Lucy, especially the Women from Mars episode when the girls make $500 for a publicity stunt atop the Empire State Building. I knew we could do these costumes if I could find the pointy noses and the retro ray guns — which I found on Amazon after some searching. It was hard finding … Read more
To make this Pikachu and Ash couple costume, I pieced everything together. The main piece, the dress, was from American Apparel. Then I found the ears and tail from Hot Topic. I ordered leg warmers online, it’s really difficult to find yellow leg warmers, I found cut off tights at Jcpenny along with a strapless … Read more
These costumes are being worn by myself (Female Predator) and my significant other (Male Predator). My significant other has always been a huge fan of the Predator movies. He first came up with the idea to create a Predator costume in 2007, while watching the movie. He literally thought, “why not?” and began to research … Read more
My best friend and I have done a few wrestling couple costumes in the past few years. Yes, we are girls! But it’s so much fun dressing up as male wrestlers. It’s also very funny! We were Macho Man (me) and Hulk Hogan (my friend Teresa) last Halloween (2013), and for Wrestlemania 30 in New … Read more
For the sumo costume, I ordered white sweatpants and sweatshirt online about two sizes too big, dyed them with RIT clothing dye in sandstone color for a flesh colored look. Stitched a pair of pjs top and bottom to inside of sweats and then stuffed with pillow stuffing. Purchased a black scrap material cotton and … Read more