Willy Wonka – We bought the pattern and sewed the jacket and vest. Used purple cotton fabric instead of velvet. Found shiny patterned fabric for the vest. Used Christmas ribbon with wired edges for the bowtie and used elastic to tie it on. Bought a plain white felt top hat and spray painted it brown. … Read more
Hello, my name is Deejay, I’m 21 and I live in Monfalcone, a small town situated on the Northern tip of the Mediterranean Sea, in Italy. In our country we have an old secular festivity called ‘Carnevale’, coming from ancient Medieval feasts, which lasts a week: from the “Fat Thursday” to the “Fat Tuesday” (40 … Read more
My costume is a homemade Ooompa Loompa Halloween costume. One day I was just walking around the good-will thinking what should I be for Halloween? Not sure why but an Ommpa Lommpa came to mind, then I started to look around. I found in a random spot a pair of white overall shorts, I knew … Read more
My family decided to be the characters from Alice in Wonderland. I chose the Cheshire Cat Costume. I bought the dress since I didn’t have the time to make it. I looked for a pink and purple striped dress and found one at wet seal. I then made the tail (which is my favorite part … Read more
My 3 year old and 6 year old are huge fan of the Original Willy Wonka so we decided to make my oldest son Willy Wonka and my youngest son an Oompa Loompa. For the Willy Wonka costume we pieced together one of my floral button up shirts, a purplish colored blazer we found at … Read more
For Hanna’s Mad Hatter costume I bought the hat from a costume store and made the hat pins from charms and wire I got from the craft store. I got lucky and was able to find scissor and sewing machine charms so these turned out really neat. Her hair we just teased out until it … Read more
I dressed my boys up for world book day this year as the film was just being released – I decided to create the Johnny Depp mad hatters homemade costumes. I got some old shirts and a waist coat for my oldest. On the waist coat I decided to sew a white rabbit (in the … Read more
This was honestly a last minute idea and how I pulled it all together… It was a rainy nasty Saturday, two days before Halloween this year. I had planned to do work outside around my house, but since it was raining, I went online and started thinking of a Halloween costume I could create myself. … Read more
I got this idea for a Oompa Loompa Halloween costume, because I’m very short and I love to make people laugh. I started out with a shirt from Target that cost me (6 dollars). I bought some white fabric paint (2.00 dollars) and painted the lines on at the top of my shirt and the … Read more
This is Isabelle, and she grins just as cute as the Cheshire Cat in the movie. Her sister was Alice, so we figured this was only fitting for her to be the Cheshire Cat. She loved it, her little tail was dragging on the ground. This Homemade Cheshire Cat Halloween Toddler Costume was my first … Read more
This is how the Alice in Wonderland group costume was put together: The Mad Hatter-shirt and pants are from the closet and I dyed an old lab coat orange (store-bought shoes and hat, wig and bulb nose). Alice’s dress is from a pattern (store-bought wig and shoes). March Hare pants are from the closet, shirt … Read more
My Homemade Mad Hatter Halloween Costume was inspired by Tim Burton’s new movie “Alice in Wonderland” due for release in 2010. I love the twist that Burton puts on all his characters in his films, which is one of the reasons I chose to model my costume on his version of the Mad Hatter. My … Read more