I was heading to “create” a costume for one of the biggest events in Germany: Carnival in Cologne. As a none-fan of bought costumes everyone else could buy/wear, this funny Halloween costume idea was just perfect to create. I started gathering the required parts: Fake teeth: Lucky find, cause they looks exactly like the teeth … Read more
I love to create costumes, to me it’s just fun to be something else for a day. I also have been a mascot for my high school and college where I get all the fans pumped up. So for Halloween last year I could not think of anything better to be than a Despicable Me Minion … Read more
While brainstorming costume ideas for my daughter and nephew, the idea of chucky crossed my mind which was perfect, seeing that my nephew kinda resembles chucky, and Tiffany was obviously a perfect match. I didn’t want to spend tons of money on costumes so i headed to our local thrift store. After digging i found … Read more
I’d been thinking about doing this shocking Serena Williams costume for a man for a couple years and finally decided break it out in 2011. It was a 4 part construction: 1. I had my mom sew a tennis skirt. 2. I bought a cheap pink sports tank top and pink strip of fabric to … Read more
My name is Sean and I used to work for a company called Mueller. They sell underground water flow control products, i.e Fire Hydrants. Two years ago they had a Halloween costume contest at work so I decided to be a smarty pants and go as a fire hydrant to make it a big joke. In order to … Read more
I wanted something completely different for hubby and I, and we love the Austin Powers series, so this was a no brainer! Our Fook Yu and Fook Mi couple costume took a lot of work, but was so worth it. Everything I needed was purchased from Value Village and a dollar store, so the total cost for both … Read more
My son just loves The Scrambled States of America. It is a children’s books by author and illustrator Laurie Keller. When I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he told me Pennsylvania or Oklahoma. So I said Okay. Not sure how we are going to do this, I did know it had … Read more
This Edward Scissorhands costume was the hardest costume there probably is to make. We made his body suite with pleather material. We wanted the costume to be as accurate to the real thing so we tried to find beads and belts to match it as much as we could. We sewed the belts on and … Read more
After searching the web for an original costume for my 7 month old son, I stumbled over a picture of a child dressed as “chucky”. I found that “Chucky” and the “My Buddy Doll” from the 80’s were eerily similar. Since we always call my son “Buddy” and he looks like a baby doll we … Read more
My college friends and I decided to be the “Hot Mess Express” for Halloween in college, after the popular term was coined for a group of girls who tend to be drunk hot messes. We all got conductor hats, suspenders, fish nets and either black or jeans shorts. then white shirts cut up in different … Read more
For a fun Halloween costume run (race), a group of us decided to be Wizard of Oz. I made my entire Glinda costume and got TONS of compliments, and was asked at least 25 times to stop and take pictures. Unfortunately the picture I have doesn’t do it justice, but I’ll explain and hopefully that … Read more
My friends and I all decided we wanted to do a cute girl group Halloween costume that was UNIQUE! So we thought long and hard………and came to the conclusion who wouldn’t enjoy a group of sexy girl construction workers?! And that’s one group costume I’ve never seen done before. So we put our plan into … Read more