There are three of us. Not sure if that’s allowed but I thought I would give it a shot! I actually made all the Sassy Chicks Costumes- me being gogo (the one in the middle). My clothes were purchased at a thrift store and I made the ball and chain and sparkley bowtie. The girl … Read more
I began piecing together this homemade Britney Spears Halloween costume last year. I first began the long tedious process of gathering the appropriate vintage jewelry needed for this costume. I used 3 gold-tone vintage belts and added different matching vintage brooches and earrings and hot glued them to the belts. I then machine sewed the … Read more
This is our Homemade Addams Family Costume for Halloween. My husband was Gomez – we got him a dark suit, red tie and big fat cigar. He has a mustache drawn on with an eyeliner. I was Morticia, I wore a long black wig and long black dress. My son was Uncle Fester. We bought … Read more
My son and I have always had coordinating costumes every year for the past 11 years. He has wanted to be Master Chief from the Xbox 360 Halo game but this costume does not come in child sizes and they do not even make a Cortana costume. When the adult version of the Master Chief … Read more
My husband made this Homemade Flintstone Family Costume for all of us. After seeing the prices of costumes in the stores, we decided that we would try to make them ourselves. Three hours later this is what we came up with. We’ve never had our picture taken so many times!
When our 5-year-old son saw a trailer for the movie 9 he insisted on being the 9 character for Halloween even though he couldn’t actually see the PG-13 rated movie. It was so visually interesting that we agreed it would be a fun costume idea. However, there was nothing out there that we could buy … Read more
This homemade Peanut Butter and Jelly family costume first started when I purchased this store-bought Wonder Bread costume for my youngest son (in the center). I wanted his two older brothers to have something that “complimented” the theme. The inside frames of the costumes are both pop-up hampers (the Jelly one was hemmed up for … Read more
We decided this year to have a group Halloween theme. My friend, Christina, and I have toddlers 6 weeks apart and we thought it would be perfect to dress them up as Pebbles and Bam-Bam. Then we figured, the kids can’t do it alone! So, I designed, re-created and sewed seven costumes for the group. … Read more
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) is one of my all time favorite movies. I told my 4 year old if he would be an Oompa Loompa, I’d get him a huge lollipop. After purchasing the lollipop, I got a few yards of white felt, a few yards of a purple paisley pattern, sage … Read more
I wanted to be cute and original so this is how I came up with my homemade Mountie costume. I live in the Cayman Islands and Halloween is huge! There are also a TON of Canadians that live here. I also work for a radio station, we throw a massive Costume party in the lobby … Read more
When my boyfriend and I arrived at the Halloween Party in these costumes, the crowd went NUTS with cheering and applause! There were probably 400-500 people at this party, and we might have known 50 of them. Total strangers swarmed us, followed us around and told us these were the best Halloween costumes they’d ever … Read more
Here we have a modern updated Sparkly version of Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Bam-Bam and Dino from the Flintstones Family. My oldest daughter Kayla was having some Fruity Pebbles for breakfast one day recently and said, “Mom, Kaylei (our middle daughter) looks just like Pebbles and I look just like a girl version of Bam-Bam! We … Read more