This past year my three friends and I decided we really wanted to wear tutus and just had to find the perfect group costume idea to support it. While playing one of our favorite games, Pretty Pretty Princess, it hit us! We will all be a princess – blue, purple, pink and yellow. We decided … Read more
I love coming up with unique, handmade costume ideas, and they’re almost always inspired by movies. Last spring, I saw a cheap 50’s style model car at a drugstore and was inspired to make this “Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman” costume. Usually when assembling costumes I go for complete accuracy, but I thought it would be … Read more
This year for one of my Halloween costumes (you can’t wear the same costume to two parties), I decided to be the main characters from one of my favorite movies ever: Emperor Kuzco from the Emperor’s New Groove. First I bought a large sheet of red fabric, and then cut a long rectangle to make … Read more
Find a gold dress, go to Michaels and purchase black adhesive letters or iron on letters. Stick on “Golden Ticket” on the front of the dress. On the back if you’d like stick on “Admit One”. Purchase fun gold jewelry, shoes, make-up and anything else that is gold. One thing I could not find was … Read more
Chuck Noland Buy a wig and beard set (the one in the picture is a “Jesus beard and wig” we cut so it was shorter Buy an oversized white tee, stain with tea, cut holes in it Print out FedEx logo, punch a hole on each side, string ribbon through it to wear as a … Read more
I always think of original ideas for Halloween, instead of buying a store costume. With this Tiaras costume, I was hoping to save money, but ended up spending over $50 for everything because of poor planning and rushing to get everything done on time! I found a YouTube tutorial on how to make the TuTu using only … Read more
Let’s be honest, I took a lot of tips from this website so thanks other peacocks! For the tail I hot glued about 60 peacock feathers (which I bought 5 for $2 at a store in Chinatown) to a fan (also Chinatown). Then I sewed the fan to the belt. I chose to sew instead … Read more
Hey There! My name is Crystal, mom of 2 super cool hip boys, Dustin and Jax Dustin was a Sons of Anarchy Member and I just came across your site! Super cool! Love it… anyhow, I wanted to submit it to you to share. So- we are huge fans of the show of course… our son is … Read more
Love the show, and thought the dress was gorgeous. I wanted to replicate it…So, for the Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen Blue Dress Costume, I bought: 3 yards of sheer blue fabric with gold flower pattern 2 yards solid blue silk fabric for dress lining (so everything wasn’t see through!) 1 yard gold mesh like fabric … Read more
I hand made this Peacock costume for my first weekend in Winnipeg. My roommate and I road tripped up for the weekend before Halloween for a rave and a weekend full of bar hopping and costume contests. I wanted something original in hopes of winning some prizes and ended up creating my own peacock costume… it was a hit! This was … Read more
I made this Minecraft costume because my 8 year old said he was too old to trick or treat, that is until mom came up with the PERFECT costume idea. Minecraft Steve. I created the body out of the box of a 30# CO2 Fire extinguisher box, the arms were toner cartridge boxes, we had hands … Read more
For this Avatars costume my friends and I found Lady Gaga jumpsuits at Walmart and tore off all the extra pieces that didn’t go with our Avatar vision. We had bought blue body paint to apply, but it didn’t look right at all so, in a panic, we ended up using some acrylic paint that … Read more