After much antique shopping and crafting at home, our vision was realized for our Ricky and Lucy Ricardo Couple Costumes! Ricky pulled an old skinny tie out of his closet and Lucy found a polka dot dress on eBay. The hoop skirt underneath came from a vintage shop. We found the apron at an antique … Read more
This Homemade Ms Pac Man and Ghost Halloween Couple Costume was created for a “80’s icons” theme party that we were invited to. My fiance suggested PacMan, but since, technically, that was the 70s, we did Ms PacMan. I was the “blue” ghost that she’s about to gobble up. Seeing just the ghost, people didn’t … Read more
My grandparents made our Halloween costumes when I was a kid and decided to keep the tradition going, as long as the boys will let me. They boys wanted to be Mario and Luigi, but I didn’t like the store bought costumes. I only sew about once a year, so I recruited a friend to … Read more
I spent 5 hours painting cutting and making this DIY dice couple Halloween costume idea. Instead of walking around we rolled around! It was fun. Sadly I entered 3 costume contests and each and every one people chose store bought costumes. What happened to Halloween? The best part is to make something and be creative. … Read more
One day while at work I saw two boxes sitting on the floor, so I brought them home then decided to make them in to a robot costume since we can not afford to buy costumes this year, and I did not want my children to miss out on Halloween. I took stuff that I … Read more
My husband and I host an annual Halloween party. We brainstorm for a couple months every year about our costume and this year we came up with a Homemade Old Homeless Couple Halloween Costume Idea. We are in our early thirties and so we knew makeup and costumes would be important but also the props … Read more
My husband and I had the best time with this Homemade John and Lorena Bobbitt Couple Costume. We used pj’s that we already had in our closets and purchased the fake blood($3), the polish and the Vienna sausages ($2 – I used both kinds throughout the night for added laughs) and, finally, a fake knife($1)! … Read more
Our favorite shot has always been a Jagerbomb. When deciding what we were going to be for Halloween, I jokingly suggested we should be a Homemade Jager Bomb Couple Costume. After shopping around at the local Halloween stores, nothing compared to the idea I had. The joke suddenly became a reality. For the Jager bottle, … Read more
My Monopoly outfit was originally created for one of my first art classes which was ‘3D Design’. My assignment was to make an article of clothing out of anything other than cloth. While walking through the thrift store looking for ideas, I came across a couple of old Monopoly games and the rest is history. … Read more
Last year I finally convinced my boyfriend to dress up for Halloween. He said that he would wear whatever costume I wanted him to wear as long as I made it for him. Well, the surprise was on him. I started off by getting large boxes and Barbie ads from Toy’s R Us. I then … Read more
This Zombie Barbie and Ken Couple Costume idea came up in a weird way because my fiance wanted something weird and zombieish and I wanted a cute couples costume so we compromised and put the two ideas together. Once we decided we were going to be zombies we were just looking for a good couple … Read more
These group homemade Flintstone’s costumes were very easy to make! Betty’s costume was made from a Simplicity pattern. Basically any pattern you like will do. I liked this one the best. Royal blue broadcloth material was used. The bottom of her dress has triangle cut outs to look more jagged. I purchased black ribbon and … Read more