I love Punny and humorous costumes. I try to do one every year. When little kids dress up, they are cute or adorable, right? But when adults dress up, CLEVER is the key! In the past, I’ve been a bag lady (dress made up completely of plastic and paper bags) and even the Pythagorean theorem … Read more
Introducing Timmy O’Connell, the Party Pooper! The idea came to me when we saw someone dressed as a plain toilet two Halloween’s ago. Then last year I suggested it to my son, age 7 at the time, and he was way too embarrassed to even consider a costume like that, so we dropped it. This … Read more
After a few visits to the local costume stores, with nothing jumping out at me, I decided I wanted a unique and witty costume for this year. After thinking back to childhood Halloweens and childhood toys, I was blinded by the idea light bulb of a Barbie doll, with an adult twist! I started with … Read more
Making the Words E-Bowl-La Teletubbies Costume: For this E-Bowl-La costume I took plastic bowls and wrote Es on them using a Sharpie marker. I glued lace straps to the bowls so I could wear them. I wrapped wire in lace and bent it into the shape of a bolt like La’s antennae and glued that to … Read more
Every year I create weird and outrageous costumes. This year I just had to do it again! I created something related to today’s happenings in the real world. I created the ‘Eye’ Bola treatment lab worker costume. “Keeping an eye on ebola”. This costume took me three days to finish and it was a workable … Read more
This Bud Lightyear costume was such an easy costume to make. I already had a Bud Light shirt that I cut, but you can just tape a Bud Light symbol onto your chest too. I bought Buzz Lightyear inflatable wings at a costume store for $10. I used purple and green duct tape, and at … Read more
As a teacher, the fall is always a busy time of the year. Since it is my first year teaching, I was stressing about Halloween approaching and how I would manage to get a costumer together in time for Halloween, all while keeping up with day to day stresses. The favorite song this year in … Read more
We were looking to make something fun and creative for our newborn twins…TWINkies was just the answer! The supplies were quite simple and inexpensive. We used cellophane, markers, foam board and yellow swaddle blankets. We pulled up the Twinkies logo on-line and free-handed it on to the cellophane. We then cut it down and wrapped … Read more
I made the car with boxes we had in the garage. I used some leftover paint from my bedroom. I then used little plastic containers that we get from restaurants (my mom saves all that kind of stuff), and I cut out paper and colored it to be the front lights and the tail lights. … Read more
Yes, we’ve all done it. A silly slip of the tongue. A brief baring of subconscious sentiment spilling out whatever we were fixated on at the time. Freudian Slips happen to the best of us! As a frequent contributor to this site and yearly winner of the local costume contests ’round these parts, I felt … Read more
I didn’t want to be like everyone else, this was a for a festival in Pittsburgh with over 1000 unique beautiful people going. I knew there would be a ton of amazing crazy weird costumes (and there totally were!) So the thought just came to me when i was driving, I’ll be a Road. Different … Read more
This Tulips on your organ costume was great and simple to make. It got many laughs and comments,very fun to watch peoples expressions when they put it together,very simple to make. Get a cardboard box to fit a man’s waist, cut out center spray paint brown, add another strip of cardboard to front and make a … Read more