For my friend’s birthday she had an Alice in Wonderland party since her name is Alice. I didn’t want to go along as something too obvious so decided on being a flamingo and making my partner go as a hedgehog. Flamingo: I started by buying a black tight fitting skirt and 4 feather boas in … Read more
We went through a Vampires are sexy term. So I bought a beautiful velvet dress that had red flowers and silver sparkle lines on it with a hood from Goodwill. Christian bought a felt top hat from Hot topic. Then we went crazy! White contacts made our eyes seem pale baby blue with black specks … Read more
We were having a tough time deciding on what to be but knew we wanted to be matching. We found some Mario and Luigi costumes online but they all looked too bland. So we decided to make our own! We got tons of compliments and people wanting photos! In total, the costumes only cost us … Read more
Getting ready for Halloween 2011 I was trying to think up a good costume. I was Boba Fett the year before and that went over pretty well so I needed to up the ante. Black Swan had come out under a year before and I’m constantly told that I look like Natalie Portman so I … Read more
My husband (boyfriend at the time) and I had no idea what to be for Halloween. After hours of brainstorming, I just said ‘screw it, I’m just going to be myself’…and that’s when the light bulb went off! I was born and raised in Germany, so we decided to go crazy with the stereotypical German … Read more
My baby was 6 weeks old for his first Halloween, and it was only my second ever Halloween in the USA (I grew up in a country where Halloween wasn’t really celebrated, yet we saw all the “trick or treat” stuff on TV, so I was making up for lost time!). I wanted to do … Read more
I saw the idea for Jelly Belly costumes on the Internet and decided to add a little flavor to the costume, literally. I came up with “popcorn” Jelly Belly and my friend was “pineapple” Jelly Belly. We used colored construction paper and cut it out and glued it to cardboard for the sign. We also used … Read more
These Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf were the first costumes I made. I got with both the kids and asked them what they want to be. We went through a lot of costume ideas, then my husband said Little Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf. We all loved it. I … Read more
As poor college students, we obviously couldn’t afford a to buy any sexy fancy costumes so we decided to be cheap and just make something up. I originally didn’t even know what beanies babies were until my best friend mentioned it. I think she saw it online somewhere and it seemed easy enough so we … Read more
The movie “Grease” will never get old, and my boyfriend and I wanted to make sure we received the best costume when we went to a Halloween party in 2012. How we made our costume: For Sandy: it was actually quite a mission. I am a natural brunette, Italian, long hair.. and as far as … Read more
Since my sister and I look alike, we thought we would use it to our advantage in Halloween 2011. Our costume came out awesome as THING 1 and THING 2 from The Cat in The Hat, Dr. Seuss. Creating the costume: Both of these costumes took a lot of time, and I owe it mostly … Read more
These Sparkling Snow Queen and Her King costumes were created out of white banquet table cloths.I will start at the top. The crowns were the simple gold crowns sold in all party stores. We painted the crowns white, added fur trim to the rim and almost covered the crown with 1′ mirror squares (for extreme sparkle). To get … Read more