My birthday is November 1st. Therefore, every year, Halloween is a big deal because at midnight it’s my birthday. My poor significant other is forced to dress up along side with me. However, he does believe that if he HAS to dress up, he better look good. Every year, I purchase a cute costume (so … Read more
We all some what resemble a Disney princess so we decided we HAD to do it. Most of our costumes were things that we already had. So we spent ultimately nothing! But don’t get me wrong, it was difficult to dig through old things that matched up perfectly with the costume. At our Halloween party people pretty … Read more
As soon as I saw Snow White and the Huntsman in theaters this year, I knew I wanted to make Snow White’s dress! I found photos online of Colleen Atwood’s costume designs for the movie and mentally deconstructed them. I started by draping some cotton jersey on my dressform for the underdress lining. I used … Read more
This is how I made my homemade Dopey the Dwarf costume from Snow White: Shirt: Took my green Snuggie®, flipped it backwards and sewed the front to make Dopey’s over sized shirt/tunic type thing (I used sticky sided yellow felt to make the two large buttons and sticky sided brown felt to make his elbow patches). … Read more
This home made Wicked Queen from Snow White Halloween costume was a costume that garnered many compliments through out the night, from dinner at The Outback (yes my husband and his friends who did NOT dress up insisted we join them) to the club where someone yanked on my chin while on the dance floor … Read more
Being 7 best friends it was very hard to find a big group costume. We narrowed it down to the 7 dwarfs and matched each character with our personalities. We are from the city Hoboken in New Jersey, so for fun we called ourselves the 7 sexy Dwarfs from the City (a play on words from … Read more
This is a Snow White Costume from the Movie Mirror Mirror. I loved the costumes in this movie-every one of them was a winner. But I found myself drawn to Snow White’s wedding dress. Rather than being white and super fluffy, it was blue and orange. Being an ILLINI, I loved the color scheme. I used silk … Read more
I always wanted to be Snow White for Halloween. I could not find a worthy Snow White costume to purchase. I have been sewing since I was seven and figured I could make my own costume. I spent one year planning the costume and buying the materials. Since an adult size Snow White pattern is … Read more