For the mailman costume we bought a blue shirt and pants at Goodwill, just used a plain black bag. All the stickers we used we got from a local post office! The Mail order bride costume was a simple white tutu, white garter, white stockings, a veil, and then printed out the mail logo on … Read more
Last year I really wanted to be creative and different with my son’s costume! I didn’t want him to be like the other kids in the neighborhood simply because I wanted him to stand out. Also with the price of costumes these days , its much cheaper to do it yourself so we decided to … Read more
I was inspired by a photo I found of a little girl dressed like a hobo/clown. I bought my daughter’s tutu and then figured out how to make mine. I put random patches on the pants. My husband’s pants were ten sizes to big for him and had a bulls eye on the seat of them. I cut up socks … Read more
I found a yellow maxi dress at Goodwill that I cut up the bottom of it to make it jagged. Then I threw on some white tights and some white snow boots that I had laying around. The hat was a s Smurfs hat I bought from a Halloween store, but just spray painted red … Read more
I made this costume out of a Forever 21 dress that was like 9.99. It was a black tight dress with one sleeve. I bought fake leafs, different type of greens. I got them at the Dollar Tree store. I used rhinestones, and gold glitter, lots of glitter! I used a hot glue gun to … Read more
I saw a Tetris costume online which started me thinking about cube type costumes. Thus my Rubik’s Cube costume was born. This was a huge hit at work as coworkers tried to ‘solve’ me. To create this costume, you’ll need two large square cardboard boxes, a few different colors of construction paper, black duct tape … Read more
My sophmore year of college I decided to cut my hair really short and all of my friends told me I should dress up like Pebbles for Halloween. After looking on every Halloween website known to man I gave up and decided to make my own. In the mist of everything my boyfriend now decides … Read more
I got a wardrobe box from Uhaul and painted it maroon. I added AG stars on the side and cut out “American girl” and my daughter’s name with card stock. A cricut machine would have made this part much easier. Took a large bowl and traced a circle on the box where the head should … Read more
I started out wanting to be Edward Scissor Hands for Halloween. As I looked at the varoius store bought costumes, I was really disappointed. Especially with the actual gloves. I knew I could make this myself. The gloves/blades were the hardest item to find because most of the ones that I found, were made of … Read more
For me, Halloween is a time to let loose and have some fun and what better way then to become a bath toy! I was a self made loofah for Halloween and the reactions I got were PRICELESS! I had numerous people asking if they could take pictures with me, rub up against me, even … Read more
With the Riddler costume hat, I got lucky and found it at a yard sale. I made the question mark out of white craft foam and painted it black and glued it to the hat. The mask was also made out of white craft foam. I painted it green and ran a piece of elastic … Read more
For this Iron Man shirt, I started out with a plain red shirt. I carefully cut out the design that is on the Iron Man suit. I then attached a piece of sheer yellow fabric to the inside of the shirt under the cut out. I took another piece of fabic to make a pocket … Read more