Each year my company has a Halloween Costume Contest. The best part of the costume is my name is actually Marcia and as many times as people say ‘Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” to me I knew this was the costume meant for me. I found the idea for a Marsha Brady Halloween costume from this site … Read more
Wayne-ordered hat online, already had concert t shirt. The jeans were something I already had as well. The knee holes were cut into it. Already had the sneakers. Bought a long black wig and cut it to length. Garth-Went to Good will to find baggy men’s jeans and flannel shirt. Already had concert t shirt … Read more
We had a great time making this Price Is Right Costume. We got corrugated board and spray painted them green. Then we vinyled all the letter designs. Tied a string through it to hang. We also made the shirts. The fronts says “I $ Plinko” and the backs say “Spay and Neuter your Pets”. We … Read more
First I used a clothes basket I found at Goodwill and decorated it with yellow feathers by hand sewing the yellow boas that I found online to the basket for my Big Bird costume. This basket made the first part of the head piece by turning it upside down and making it into a hat. … Read more
Simple but unique, Joey was actually the one to convince me that he should be Alfalfa for Halloween 2012. Ordering the bow tie and suspenders were definitely the easy part. Not to mention already having a good button-up shirt and khakis hanging in his closet. The real challenge was getting his “Alfalfa Sprout” hair to … Read more
I was in the middle of a breakup and overdosed on ice-cream and TLC’s Hoarders marathons. Thus Helda the Hoarder was born and utilized Saturday night. Also, no Hoarder is complete, without their bag of “that which shall not be named”. Made simply with molded Tootsie Rolls, though I doubt they will use that as … Read more
My girlfriend and I had one heck of a time figuring out what to be for Halloween this year. We both love Halloween. I wanted to do my own thing, she wanted to do a couples costume. We couldn’t agree on anything… until we thought about the most loveable best friends from our childhood- Bert … Read more
These are our very last-minute Bert and Ernie Halloween costumes. Bert’s shirt was made from a Blue v neck thermal shirt, green and orange duct tape for the stripes. Super easy and took less than 10 min! Ernie’s shirt was just a long sleeve polo shirt my husband had in the closet that happen to … Read more
I just LOVE Kermmy!!!! the entire Miss Piggy costume was handmade and part of Kermit’s was too. Kermmy! Miss Piggy and Kermit were a HUGE hit at the Halloween party we went to! Never have we had SO many pictures taken with us and of us! Kermit was a GREAT sport and got his butt … Read more
We came up with this original Oscar the Grouch homemade Halloween costume idea about a year ago, so it’s been a long process, with awesome results. The costume consists of Chris as Bruno the trash man and his arms working Oscar The Grouch. We tried to go for as realistic an Oscar as possible, hunting … Read more
We went as cast members from Saturday night live. The Mary Catherine Gallagher and Chippendale Dancer costumes are homemade. Shopping thrift stores for the Mary costume, craft store to get the patch for the vest. Chippendale dancer shirts were purchased at Hobby Lobby as “tuxedo shirts”, cutting the sleeves off but leaving the cuffs is … Read more
This Honey Boo Boo homemade costume idea came about 3 months ago right when the Honey Boo Boo craze first started. We worked on this costume for 3 months just 1 or 2 days a week. We just recently finished it. Every detail was sewn on by myself, my best friend, and her mother. I took … Read more