This past Halloween my husband and I decided that we would each go as a character from a horror movie. I was Carrie from Stephen King’s “Carrie”, my husband went as Johnny from “The Shining” (also Stephen King), and our 2 yr. old son went as Chucky from “Child’s Play”. None of the costumes cost much money, … Read more
I am the type of girlfriend that likes the idea of a couple’s costume at Halloween; it is “my thing”. With a mutual love of Calvin & Hobbes comics, we incorporated something that was “our thing” into our costume. Calvin was a given for me with the short blonde hair and all. The rest of … Read more
So for Halloween this year, I wanted to be something different than the typical bunny, nurse, cop, etc. so I decided I was gonna be Waldo from the “where is Waldo” books that I used to look through as a kid. Of course at my age and going to a Halloween party I had to … Read more
My roommates and I were trying to figure out a cheap costume for Halloween. We decided to do duct tape dresses and thought it be funny to do four locos. So we bought different color duct tape and got to wrapping, which was the hard part. After we were all taped up, we cut ourselves … Read more
I had really struggled to come up with the idea for a costume, and one day when I was driving down the road and “Ice Ice Baby” came on the radio something clicked. I knew there were three of us wanting to come up with a creative costume for a Halloween party we were going … Read more
My birthday is November 1st. Therefore, every year, Halloween is a big deal because at midnight it’s my birthday. My poor significant other is forced to dress up along side with me. However, he does believe that if he HAS to dress up, he better look good. Every year, I purchase a cute costume (so … Read more
My son is blind and has occasional seizures so I had to make a costume that would be easy for him to wear. I bought him a green sweatshirt and pinned the letter “P” in various places on the shirt. Then I colored in a black eye on him. He was a black-eyed pea. However, … Read more
I actually bought the Lady Gaga wig at Cards & Parties. The costume was $50 there so I went to the Goodwill and bought the pants, shirt & jacket for $15. The make-up took me about an hour & a half to do (I thought my arms were going to fall off, lol). We all went out … Read more
How to make a black and white cow costume? First I searched around my house for black and white items to recycle into my cow costume. I began with a big black plastic garbage bag and wore it as the head of my cow costume. Then I used a large white kitchen garbage bag to … Read more
Me and my husband went as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Halloween last year. How did we do it: I used a cloth painters suit you can buy from home depot. Paint them green with spray paint. Buy linen cloth based on the color you want to have purple, red, orange, or blue and cut … Read more
To create this Cave-Woman and Cave-Man Couple Costume: You need to hit up a few thrift stores. The skin tight leopard dress was found at a thrift store as a ladies long leopard print dress. Cut garment to look torn and wild. I used leather strips to “sew” my dress to myself. It should be tight and … Read more
This is the Knights outfit I made for the Renaissance fair last year. I made two different ones but only used one. I went as a Crusader Knight because it was not as hot as wearing Armor. But I will tell you about, and show you both the first one is the Crusader. I made it out of a … Read more