This year I wanted my twins to steal the spotlight from everyone at the Halloween party so me and my husband decided to come up with a unique costume, not the classic salt & pepper, Thing 1 Thing 2, Pebbles and Bam Bam. We wanted a creepy costume for our infant twins and what better … Read more
Everyone has always told me I look like Linda Blair so I decided to be the Exorcist. I went to a local Halloween shop and bought face scabs, green paint, fake blood & greenish face paint. I also bought a nightgown and slippers. I mixed the green paint with the fake blood to get a … Read more
For Halloween this year, I used lots of pleather to sew my own Homemade Pinhead Girl Costume, 16 ounces of latex, a bald wig cap, 99 nails, superglue and LOTS of patience. I might add at this point I have no formal training, I just consider myself to be an artist, that can and will … Read more
I made this Otis Costume from House of 1000 Corpses. I bought the red robe and white wig online, but all of the masks we found were lame and expensive. So, I bought face paint and did it myself. Most people really didn’t know who I was except the true horror buffs out there. Everyone … Read more
Our theme this year was Morgus the Magnificent’s Swine Flu Clinic. The patient’s would come into the clinic and get a shot and then the side effect would be that they would grow a pig’s snout. I was Morgus the Magnificent. The Homemade Morgus the Magnificent Costume was very easy to make. I just got … Read more
I was inspired by my lack of funds to create a cheap costume that didn’t look cheap. That being said, I went to a Thrift store and found a dress for 2.50 cents that I felt to be ’60’s inspired. Next, I bought some white lark birds at a wedding store, which I then spraypainted … Read more
Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my homemade Ash Halloween costume!!! I’ve been making my own costumes for the past 5 years but this is the most involved that I have done so far. After seeing a tutorial on making the chainsaw hand, I decided that I would go for … Read more
This is my 2-year-old son, Blake, wearing a Homemade Chucky Costume we put together based on the serial killing doll from the Child’s Play movies, better known as Chucky. My husband and I thought that the store-bought Chucky costumes looked really cheesy, and they don’t make them small enough for two-year-olds (a Chucky costume really … Read more
I undertook making this Pennywise the Clown Costume with the aim of getting it nearest the original as possible. With no experience on a sewing machine I perhaps ambitiously purchased my clown costume pattern and sourced the best matching material I could find and cut the sections to size. In the end the sewing side … Read more
I am a big Halloween freak, I just love it. Every year we make our own costumes from scratch. This year me and my husband decided to dress up as the exorcist. I have always been so terrified of this girl, but had to do it. I don’t look exactly like her, but I think … Read more
My daughter and I were at McDonald’s in the drive thru waiting for our food a few years back (yes it took them that long, its all cold now!) and she told out of nowhere that she was scared to death of frickin’ clowns. (Ronald McDonald was hanging out inside, ya see.) So I thought … Read more
This Homemade Sam from Trick ‘r Treat Costume was handmade by making a paper mache head, once dried cutting the balloon to look like a space helmet and covering it with burlap and rope. The eyes are large buttons that I painted with black spray paint, string for the mouth, sewing a sleeper with orange … Read more