My college friends and I decided to be the “Hot Mess Express” for Halloween in college, after the popular term was coined for a group of girls who tend to be drunk hot messes. We all got conductor hats, suspenders, fish nets and either black or jeans shorts. then white shirts cut up in different … Read more
My friends and I all decided we wanted to do a cute girl group Halloween costume that was UNIQUE! So we thought long and hard………and came to the conclusion who wouldn’t enjoy a group of sexy girl construction workers?! And that’s one group costume I’ve never seen done before. So we put our plan into … Read more
Wasn’t sure what to do for Halloween and I always love to be different. I stopped in a Halloween store to look for a dress and I mentioned to them that it would be so cool to have someone paint a design all over me. Wasn’t sure what , but that’s what came to my … Read more
Asked my two and a half year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween last year and his response was simply, “I want donuts”. This has been a common request because donuts are his favorite desert, but it got me thinking… why don’t I make a donut costume for him? So I bought … Read more
I wasn’t sure what to dress my six month old son as for Halloween, and I wanted him and his older brother to have a common theme. So after my other son picked a donut I thought of another cute treat for the baby to dress as… a gingerbread man costume! The costume was very … Read more
At dinner I asked my 8 year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween. He thought for a moment and then said that he wanted to be something scary. So I prepared myself for a zombie, something bloody, or something just plain gross. But then something just awesome happened. “Mom, I want to … Read more
My son’s favorite video game is Little Big Planet so he decided he wanted to be Sackboy for Halloween. There are NO commercial Sackboy costumes on the market so mama had to step up and make him a costume! I bought some cheap jersey fabric at the craft store and made a quick little jumpsuit … Read more
As the mom of new twins, I wanted their first Halloween costumes to be perfect. I had boy girl twins in 2010 and everywhere I looked I could not find the perfect costume set. One night I was reading them the Cat in the Hat and it hit me, Thing 1 and Thing 2 twin … Read more
These are my children’s Pebbles and Bamm Bamm homemade Halloween costumes.. Four year old Pebbles – pants were hand-sewn out of felt material (measurements were made by guesswork). Top – Over sized leopard print T-shirt cut up. And hair tie- bone molded out of playdoh and left to harden for a week ten glued onto … Read more
This great pet dog Halloween costume came about since our dog already comes with his own “fro.” I bought about 2 yards of tie-dyed fabric, and 1.5 yards of brown fringe. This was enough for my child’s costume as well. Plus hippie glasses, wig and necklaces. We already had a shirt for my child. I … Read more
This simple and easy to make Velma costume from the Scooby Doo Gang is homemade, after looking at off the shelf costumes I thought I could do better. I started off breaking the costume down into what items I needed. It’s basically an orange polo top which I found a few on eBay. I already had a … Read more
After seeing Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland I knew I wanted to be the crazy Mad Hatter for Halloween. I started off by taping off vertical stripes on an old green dress. I painted the skirt of the dress purple, so that when the tape was removed there would be green and purple stripes. I … Read more