My roomates and I have always considered Halloween one of our favorite holidays. For Halloween 2011, we went with the theme ”The Wizard of Oz.” We had a fun party to attend later on that night, and wanted the costumes to look awesome! Everyone loved our costumes and we were a hit! Since we couldn’t find any cute costumes, we decided … Read more
This year we decided to make the Happy Holidays Girls group costume! All of the Holidays are hand made which makes them awesome! These ones were a little harder to make, but the finished product was worth the time and effort! The holidays consisted of a Easter Bunny, a Leprachaun, Santa, Cupid, and the Turkey! … Read more
My son, Chason is 3 1/2 years. He is absolutely obsessed with garbage trucks. He will sit for hours at the computer and watch You Tube videos of garbage trucks driving around neighborhoods and picking up garbage but he especially likes the videos where there is an actual garbage man physically throwing the garbage into … 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
Our son was 2 and had no idea who we were dressing him up as , so before he would take control of Halloweens to come we had to have this Chucky costume. We made his costume, colored (temp) his hair and he won 1st prize at Universal City walk , it was an awesome … Read more
I have been wanting to make an Oogie Boogie costume since I one, fell in love with the Nightmare Before Christmas, and two, realized that the only commercially available costume was hideous! I finally set my mind to doing a glowing Oogie Boogie costume this year and I think it came out alright. I used … Read more
This last-minute Chuckie Finster costume was really easy to make! I bought a plain blue t-shirt from Walmart as well as yellow, red, and lime green felt. I used the felt to create the saturn, sleeve/neck rims, and squiggles on the shorts. The shorts are soffes which I had already, but easily purchasable. I bought … Read more
We decided we wanted to go as a pair this year to an annual costume contest party. Bacon and eggs couple costume was the perfect idea! We bought felt from Hobby Lobby for about $10 per costume. We then cut the felt to the right size and shape for each one. The bacon was pretty … Read more
I moved into a house with my best friend and 5 strangers in our last year in College. We all were so different but became the best of friends. For the Halloween party that year I came up with the idea of dressing up as Tetris. It sounds cheesy but it resembled the way our … Read more
This Mario and Luigi girl’s couple costume is from Halloween 2004. My roommate and I had acquired an old Nintendo and our favorite game to play (usually at 3am when we got home from a night out) was the original Super Mario Bros. We thought it would be an awesome Halloween costume. We got the overalls … Read more
I was due in December 2010, and our friends have a Halloween party every year. When I was pregnant, I was all belly and I thought if I could somehow make my belly a basketball, I could make the rest of the basketball player costume from items around the house. I cut the belly out … Read more
Collecting the clothes fir this original WWII Comic Book Pop Art couple costume was the hardest part of this endeavor…at least for me. The uniform I am wearing is a 1930s, pre-WWII Army Air Corp officers uniform, which isn’t easy to find because there aren’t a lot of the components left around. The dots on … Read more