My 6 year old son decided in July this year that he wanted to be Edward Scissorhands for Halloween. Once he told me this I knew I had to get my creative mind working for this costume! We started with the base of a black shirt that has Velcro on the front secure it and black pants … Read more
To become Alice in Zombieland, it took about a month and a half to prepare and about four hours of making. Almost all the accessories I bought online, I needed to think through what I would need and how I would use it. The dress I bought on eBay for about 20£ as a whole … Read more
My friend and I really wanted to wear tutu’s to a Halloween party this year! We did some internet searching and decided to be Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. This costume was super easy to create and basically required no sewing. Oh and I forgot to mention cheap! The cost to make each costume was … Read more
Meet the Mandies! Our names are Mandy and Mandi and we work together all day every day. Our desks are next to each other, we like to refer to ourselves as the “the Mandies” and are experts at mixing getting work done with entertaining each other extensively. In our office we answer to multiple names, … Read more
Of course I agreed to do these costumes with my mother on one condition….she had to be Tweedle Dumb! We work in industrial construction and wanted to wear our costumes in the work zone…hence the hard hats with the propellers. We used foam letters and hot glued them to our hard hats for our names. We … Read more
My 12 year old cousin wanted to be Alice in Wonderland for Halloween and I decided to do it right. I’m a person who researches everything and it has to be perfect. So I discovered that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in 1865 meaning that Alice would have had a laced up girls gown … Read more
We were going to Disneyland for Halloween night and we wanted to make his stroller into something so we decided on the Nightmare Before Christmas and his stroller would soon be transformed into the Mayers car complete with flashing lights, interior exterior lights,”zero” the dog floating along the car, lit up a speaker coming out the … Read more
I had so much fun putting together the Mrs. Lovett costume. I checked several photos, watched the movie again (3 times for mannerisms) and checked several homemade costumes as well. I noticed that I don’t have to look exactly like Helena Bonham Carter’s (HBC) character, which was encouraging. The best advice I can give, is … Read more
I’m from Brazil, so here we don’t have halloween. But we have those costumes parties and I was tired of those typical costumes like cop, nurse, and others. One day I was watching the original Alice on Wonderland and I always loved the Cheshire cat and his face and I already had a pink dress, so I … Read more
This year my son wanted to be Jack Skellington from Nightmare before Christmas. For his costume I bought super cheap ($1.50 yard) black and white striped fabric. I sewed simple elastic pants and then used a jacket as a pattern to make his coat, adding the tails and lapels. His bow tie is hot glue, … Read more
I made a great Edward Scissorhands costume.The wig was made from a Gothic/EMO style black wig. I added some longer hair with hair extensions black bond. (Edward’s hair is not very even). The inner leather jacket, was made with a black leather purse. It was cut in pieces that I sewed on a long sleeves … Read more
For the top of this Alice in Wonderland’s Red Queen adult costume, I bought a cheap white shirt to put under the black fabric. I used a sewing machine for the bodice of the shirt, and hand sewed the black fabric on top of the white shirt (on the sleeves). For the red ribbon on … Read more