I love horror flicks and ‘The Shining’ is by far, the best one! Here’s my take on the scary Grady Twins from the movie. By far the scariest girls around! These are adult sized costumes. It took forever for me to find the perfect materials and colors for these Grady Twins from The Shining Halloween … Read more
“The Birds” Costume Idea was so cool & easy! Tippi Hedren from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. I searched thrift stores for the perfect 60’s dress suit (it was green in the movie, But black & white, so any color will do). I went to the craft stores and dollar stores early fall and bought as … Read more
This Homemade Zombie Mormon Costumes is our version of zombie mormons. We beat up an old bicicle helmet, and used black spray paint on an old tire and rolled it across the shirt, then we scratched up the pants, and used some grey and black makeup, this was a fun costume, everyone enjoyed it, you … Read more
This year I wanted my twins to steal the spotlight from everyone at the Halloween party so me and my husband decided to come up with a unique costume, not the classic salt & pepper, Thing 1 Thing 2, Pebbles and Bam Bam. We wanted a creepy costume for our infant twins and what better … Read more
Everyone has always told me I look like Linda Blair so I decided to be the Exorcist. I went to a local Halloween shop and bought face scabs, green paint, fake blood & greenish face paint. I also bought a nightgown and slippers. I mixed the green paint with the fake blood to get a … Read more
For Halloween this year, I used lots of pleather to sew my own Homemade Pinhead Girl Costume, 16 ounces of latex, a bald wig cap, 99 nails, superglue and LOTS of patience. I might add at this point I have no formal training, I just consider myself to be an artist, that can and will … Read more
I made this Otis Costume from House of 1000 Corpses. I bought the red robe and white wig online, but all of the masks we found were lame and expensive. So, I bought face paint and did it myself. Most people really didn’t know who I was except the true horror buffs out there. Everyone … Read more
Our theme this year was Morgus the Magnificent’s Swine Flu Clinic. The patient’s would come into the clinic and get a shot and then the side effect would be that they would grow a pig’s snout. I was Morgus the Magnificent. The Homemade Morgus the Magnificent Costume was very easy to make. I just got … Read more
I was inspired by my lack of funds to create a cheap costume that didn’t look cheap. That being said, I went to a Thrift store and found a dress for 2.50 cents that I felt to be ’60’s inspired. Next, I bought some white lark birds at a wedding store, which I then spraypainted … Read more
Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my homemade Ash Halloween costume!!! I’ve been making my own costumes for the past 5 years but this is the most involved that I have done so far. After seeing a tutorial on making the chainsaw hand, I decided that I would go for … Read more
This is my 2-year-old son, Blake, wearing a Homemade Chucky Costume we put together based on the serial killing doll from the Child’s Play movies, better known as Chucky. My husband and I thought that the store-bought Chucky costumes looked really cheesy, and they don’t make them small enough for two-year-olds (a Chucky costume really … Read more
I undertook making this Pennywise the Clown Costume with the aim of getting it nearest the original as possible. With no experience on a sewing machine I perhaps ambitiously purchased my clown costume pattern and sourced the best matching material I could find and cut the sections to size. In the end the sewing side … Read more