Some of my favorite childhood memories consist of Halloween memories because my mom always created our costumes from scratch and she always did such an amazing job and I have loved creating those same memories for my own family now. I’ve lived out of my home state and away from my family since getting married, … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Sackboy caterpillar costume – My daughter wanted to be a caterpillar for Halloween and really liked the caterpillar costume worn by the video game character Sackboy in the game “Sackboy: A Big Adventure”. That particular Sackboy caterpillar costume has one of his iconic big zippers down the front and since … Read more
Years ago I saw other dads on several other costume websites make a mech suit for their kids. I’m here to keep the torch list and keep the inspiration for others moving forward. This dad and baby Mech Warrior costume took about 2 months to make, both a lot of fun and a lot of … Read more
Our five year old daughter wanted a homemade Baby Groot costume for Halloween, so, naturally, the whole family landed on an Avengers theme. My son went with Rocket Racoon, I dressed up as Black Widow, and my husband naturally navigated towards Fat Thor! Even the grandparents got in on the action with Hulk and She-Hulk … Read more
Every Halloween, we challenge ourselves to out-do the costumes we made the previous year. For 2022, we decided to be Fruit Flies! My husband, Steve, was the Orange Fruit Fly, my friend, Judy, was the Grape Fruit Fly, my friend, Dan, was the Banana Fruit Fly, and I was the Watermelon Fruit Fly. The fly … Read more
This costume took me 4 days to create for a Halloween event at my job. The only two things that I bought brand new was the prison suit and wig. Everything else I borrowed or already had at home. The cape was created from used graduation gowns I bought from a thrift store. Overall costs … Read more
This year, on Halloween, I wasn’t quite myself; an otherworldly creature crawled beneath my skin—and could be seen bursting out of certain parts of it! My costume creation, called “Alien Infestation,” took about 3 weeks to bring to extraterrestrial life, and I had a blast expanding my special effects makeup skills during the process. When … Read more
I love punny costumes! I wanted fake sticks of butter on my fingers and saved and cleaned butter wrappers. Then I formed 3 rectangular boxes out of the butter boxes and other cardboard on hand. Cover the boxes in light yellow paper then wrap the covered boxes in the butter wrappers. Leave one end of … Read more
The Despicable Me film franchise has been my obsession since I had seen the film on my 25th birthday in 2010 after a fun-filled trip to Dave & Buster’s (which I have done almost every year for my birthday…except in 2020 when COVID hampered my plans to do whatever I wanted to do when that … Read more
Both of my brothers are cosplayers. They go to conventions all the time. They said I should join them because it is a lot of fun. I began thinking what would I even dress up as. Then I thought about what I liked. I loved watching the Power Rangers when I was younger. I have … Read more
Cousin Itt was always one of my favorite characters in the Addams Family TV series. I really wanted to do this for Halloween this year and soon discovered the only way to do the costume was to build it myself. I’m a really short pipsqueak, so figured I could pull it off. Searching high and … Read more
My birthday is on October 29th, so Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I am always looking for awesome costume ideas where I can make everything myself. This year, I was searching the Coolest Homemade Costumes site in August, and came across the idea to do a group KISS costume. I pitched … Read more