This old school Joker costume, aside from the suit, was real easy to make and came out looking great! I started with searching online for the perfect picture of the original cartoon joker to use as a guide. After I found one I liked, I began looking for a way to make the out fit. … Read more
My six year old daughter designed this peacock costume and created it with the help of mom and Grandma. It was our first attempt at a homemade Halloween costume and was totally worth it. It was actually pretty easy to make and my daughter was able to help with most of it. She is sure … Read more
Creating the perfect Barbie & Ken costume was quite a challenge for two people with different creative sides. I’m the visionary/creator mastermind and my husband is the builder. I call him the over builder because he has a tendency to put way too much testosterone into my creative ideas! I found the outfits at a … Read more
This creepy,yet easy homemade SlenderGirl costume was inspired by the ever famous Slenderman scary story (creepypasta). I have always wanted to go as something creepy or scary for Halloween rather then just the traditional “vampire” or “creepy rag doll”. I wanted something that would scare the living day lights out of everyone. After about a few … Read more
To go against the “Sexy” Halloween, this year I decided to be super funny. I saw somewhere the idea of cutting out magazine eyes to make weird looking faces so that is where I started. I bought a pair of big sunglasses then covered them with two different eyes cut out from a magazine (to … Read more
We live in the south, so of course this Hillbilly Daddy costume was not hard to get together. We bought mullet wig at Walmart and everything else at the thrift store. Once he put on the costume, his whole personality changed. It was too funny! We sent out pictures to family and they were so shocked because … Read more
The Corona bottle costume was made using a store bought yellow tube dress. I then printed out the Corona label on fabric and glued it to the dress. I took a pair of old flats and painted them yellow. For the bottle cap, I painted a Styrofoam circle yellow (same paint as the shoes), chiseled … Read more
My daughter Gisselle is 2 years old. Once she saw the movie “Despicable ME” she fell in love with the Minions. She would also copy Agnes, like clapping her hands to her cheeks or saying “It’s So FLUFFY”. So I decided to dress her up like Agnes for Halloween. Looking for her costume took me … Read more
We got the idea from the Justin Timberlake/Lady Gaga skit on SNL called Liquorville. We bought a beer bottle costume and cartoon character hands from a Halloween costume store for him. I found a cheap light beige colored mini-skirt and top from a resale shop and wore with beige tights. I bought decorative plastic grapes … Read more
I wanted to be something creepy, but also have a costume that nobody would know who I was unless I wanted them to. I’ve always wanted to do a more complex face paint than the norm, but I like the effect of the paint itself with added appliances/prosthetics. The face paint took about 2 hours to … Read more
As always, about two months before Halloween I start talking about costumes, and out of the blue Meg said she wanted to be a glue stick! And not just any glue stick, she was very specific, she wanted to be “the one with the cow on it, the one I use at school”. With no … Read more
My husband has been told on a number of times that he looks like serial killer Dexter Morgan, from the Showtime series Dexter. I picked up a green button down shirt form Old Navy for Dexter’s “kill shirt”. I got a blood spatter apron at the Dollar store and he wore some brown pants and … Read more