These Anrgy Birds costumes took hours and hours to make, but so worth it! It all started when my son, age 5, became obsessed with the Angry Birds game on my smartphone. He insisted I make him the pig costume “just to play in and he could knock it over by throwing random toys at it. Well, it was … Read more
Boots – was inside out sweats, a stuffed felt tail, turtle neck with felt belly, pink gloves for hands, fishing boots with red soccer socks over them, the head and face were sewed blue leggings to make like a ski mask head cover with a visor with the bill cut to look like boots 3 … Read more
My friends and I decided on a Wizard of Oz group costume for our last day of Sixth form, which is traditionally fancy dress. I am Dorothy in the middle! I originally started the costume from a Simplicity sewing pattern, but the sizing was all wrong and I ended up making it without the pattern … Read more
Coolest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes : Michelangelo TMNT, Foot Soldier, and April O’Neil All three costumes were custom made by my brother, my wife, and me. The key medium that “tied” everything together was colored duct-tape. Just no time to write a full ste-by-step. Pic 1: We now battle for the damsel in distress … Read more
This New Years Eve a group of my friends wanted to go out as the Spartan Gods from the film Immortals. As the film hadn’t been out very long they couldn’t find anything suitable at any costume shops so they came to me. Having made one of them a King Leonidas outfit when 300 came … Read more
These costumes were sooo easy to make and we got so many compliments, it was sooo worth it! I simply bought white fabric (you can use old white linen) for each one of us. For my younger daughter I folded the fabric in half, cut a hole for the head and glued gold fabric I … Read more
Every year we (I) make our own costumes, I think they are the best and people always stop to take pictures. Last year I decided we should be Potato Heads. These Mr., Mrs. and kids Potato Heads costumes were very easy to make but time consuming. I got us all brown fabric for the body (which … Read more
Halloween is a big deal here in Chapel Hill, N.C. and being college students my friends and I get pretty into it. Every year we base our Halloween costumes around our red-headed friend Molly. Freshman year we did Wizard of Oz (she was the lion), Sophomore year we did Spice Girls (she was Ginger Spice) … Read more
My friends & I ADORE Halloween, it’s that time of the year that you can be a big kid again and no one judges! We were looking for something original to do and were brainstorming for weeks when we hit upon the Sugababes “Change” video. We all wanted the basis of our costumes to be … Read more
Our group was pretty tall so we thought Globe-Trotters would be perfect. Not to mention we had two college basketball players in our group. Can you guess who? We started at sports authority and found red shorts, tall white socks, blue t-shirts, wrist and head bands. We cut our shirts to make them look more … Read more
This year, as juniors in our high school, we decided to do something special. We are a group of eleven girls and we had this idea since like summer. Every year, our school has Halloween costume contest. We decided to participate in the group category. We chose a weekend and all the girls came to … Read more
After renting costumes last year as the three little pigs and winning, we had to go over the top and create this years Halloween costumes. So we decided to go as the legendary KISS. Myself and three of my buddies gathered different items to create these unbelievable costumes and won for the 2nd year in … Read more