I am very creative and love home made costumes. I create costumes for my kids, husband and myself every year. I start planning mine the day after Halloween and begin creatiion 2-3 prior as I usually have the most difficult one. I wanted to re create a cat costume from the broadway musical “CATS”. I researched for … Read more
I have enjoyed sewing costumes for my 7 kids for the last 19 years and LOVE themes. A big year for 6 year old girl twins & 8 year old brother – for scoring lots of candy now that they have endurance! Living in Minnesota requires warmer costumes so we headed to the store for … Read more
I absolutely adore Halloween, which is not as per usual for a young person- nonetheless for a young lady. Every year I try to out do myself from the year before with an outrageous idea or unbelievable makeup. I wanted to make some sort of cat costume one year, because I love cats almost as much as … Read more
I found out last minute that I needed to wear a costume to work on Halloween and couldn’t find all the pieces to my “Progressive Insurance Flo” costume from two years ago. I needed something that wasn’t scary or required lots of time to put together in the morning. As I stood looking dejectedly at … Read more
This Original last-minute costume idea took literally five minutes to make and another five minutes for the makeup application. I worked the entire day before my Halloween party, and also attended my little sister’s middle school musical that night. Of course I had been brainstorming costume ideas but none had had that essential spark until I … Read more
We got a lot of laughs for these crazy Cat Lady and Cats group costumes! For the Crazy Cat Lady I used a pajama with cats on it that I already owned and sewed all my daughter’s stuffed cats all over it. The makeup was inspired by Mimi off the Drew Carey Show. And I … Read more
I made this cool cat costume for my 10-year old daughter’s choreography competition. I cut out the breast piece, fur cuffs and “skirt” from fake fur and then sewed it onto the leotard. A tip when working with the fake fur: when you have cut your pieces go around the edges with a zig-zag stitch, … Read more
This cat costume was made for a Pet Palooza event at the library I work at. It took about 4 weeks to completely finish. I sewed the bodysuit and hand painted it with reds, black and white fabric paint (same goes for the gloves). Easiest way to paint it was to stuff the bodysuit with … Read more
This homemade black cat costume I made for my granddaughter, and it was a huge hit! It was so easy and inexpensive to make. I sewed MANY black boas on a black turtle neck shirt and also on black leggings (doing this by hand was a lot easier than with a sewing machine). She wore … Read more
My 7 year old daughter LOVES stuffed animals and I thought it would be a great idea to have her dress as a kitty and try to find her pets a good home!This cool homemade kitty costume was very cheap to make and got rave reviews everywhere we went!
This Cat Costume I went overboard with but I had a lot of fun. First I ordered a body suit(white) which I ended up spray painting (maroon, orange, yellow and black) as well as going over with permanent marker for detail on the outfit. I also sprayed some yarn which I sewed on the shoulders … Read more