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This is my Scuba Steve costume I made from some sweat pants and sweat shirts with a yellow t-shirt stitched over the sweatshirt. I made yellow flippers and tanks out of cardboard paper. Everyone loves the movie Big Daddy so it was a great hit.
Every year my fiance, Aaron’s, family has a big Halloween party and there’s a costume competition. His dad and step mom always win the Best Costume Award and we were determined to steal it from them this year so we were trying to think of something creative that no one else has done before. We … Read more
The only costume that was not homemade was Frank-n-furter. The rest of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Group Costume was put together by us. We frequented the thrift store, and craft store.
Based on the 1964 Rankin and Bass holiday classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Homemade Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Character Costumes were created to capture the true fun of the characters Rudolph, Yukon Cornelius and Bumble, the Abominable Snow Monster of The North. Rudolph and Yukon costumes were hand-stitched, using very simple patterns. And … Read more
The idea for this Marvin the Paranoid Android Costume was a friend’s leave/birthday party so had a sci-fi themed fancy dress so I decided because my friends LOVES!! Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy that Marvin the Paranoid Android would be a perfect costume. I searched online for other costumes expecting to find one but couldn’t … Read more
My son’s favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham. His name happens to be Sam so he decided he wanted to be Sam-I-am. I thought it would be easy to find the costume on-line to buy. No such luck. I decided to make it. I sewed the yellow fabric and cut the frills at the … Read more
My son had just watched the “Little Shop of Horrors” movie, and decided he wanted to be Seymour while holding the plant Audrey II- like in the scene where he goes to the radio station for an interview by John Candy. You cant see his arm very good from the picture, but his right arm … Read more
Well I started out by acquiring the jacket which I found on Craig’s list. Then the pants I found at Hot Topic. The shoulder pad was made from actual football shoulder pads that were modified and riveted directly to the jacket. The legbrace was made from 2 aluminum strips that I bought at home depot, … Read more
Our family does theme costumes each year, but as the mom of boys…this year we did not agree. They wanted gore, and I wanted cute. So we compromised. They are the Men In Black, and I am their alien. I got the jackets from Goodwill, the sunglasses from a costume shop and bought my green … Read more
I made the coat for this Homemade Lara Croft from Tomb Raider Costume. The rest was either borrowed or thrown together from what I already owned. The coat I made out of a robe pattern that had a hood on it, and then attached the fur to the hood. I kind of winged it from … Read more
Being the huge Tarantino fans that we are, my boyfriend, my best friend and myself decided to be Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Jules Winnifield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) from Pulp Fiction. My Pulp Fiction Costume was made by using my black pants sewn to the ankle, black pumps, my own button … Read more
My co-bartender and myself wanted to do something different this year. He has this fascination with Dr. Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, so he went with it. He went to the local Party Wizard store and bought the mask for $8, then to Walmart, where he purchased a $6 pair of white sweatpants. … Read more