Awesome Homemade Group Costume: Matryoshka/Russian Nesting Dolls

Awesome Homemade Group Costume: Matryoshka/Russian Nesting Dolls

Matryoshka/Russian Nesting/Babushka Dolls Total cost: $200 ($40 per person) Materials: Foam, red and yellow fabric, red and yellow rose buttons, elastic, acrylic paint. You will need a sewing machine and thread. Total time: 3 days (based on one person crafting) Inspiration and steps in detail (trust me, it looks harder than it is!): The inspiration … Read more

Amazing Hand Made Art Deco Medusa Costume

Amazing Hand Made Art Deco Medusa Costume

Art Deco Medusa was handmade by myself and personally styled from the shoes to the headdress, leaving no element un-finessed. The pattern for the dress is researched from 1920’s flapper-style dresses and is made from second-hand deconstructed garments. These garments included an old beaded prom dress, some oversized velvet shirts, and some lace-y undergarments.  All … Read more

Homemade Prickly Toddler Porcupine Costume for a Girl

Homemade Prickly Toddler Porcupine Costume for a Girl: This is my daughter’s porcupine costume from this year. I had narrowed her costume choices down to a few and showed her some pictures of them. She g

This is my daughter’s toddler porcupine costume from this year. I had narrowed her costume choices down to a few and showed her some pictures of them. She got very excited when she saw the porcupine and exclaimed, “Poopy-pine!” That pretty much settled it. Every time anyone mentioned costumes or Halloween, she would yell “Poopy-pine!” … Read more

Original Girl in a Tree Illusion Costume

Original Girl in a Tree Illusion Costume: My ten year old daughter came up with this idea and built just about all of this costume by herself. She won the grand prize at her school's trunk-a-t

My ten year old daughter came up with this idea and built just about all of this costume by herself. She won the grand prize at her school’s trunk-a-treat costume contest and most creative at her school’s Halloween parade. It was hilarious seeing her walk around the neighborhood at night as a girl in a … Read more

Coolest Homemade Buzz Lightyear and RC Wheelchair Costume

Connor has a leukodystrophy, which means he loses motor function as his disease progresses.  So Mom and Dad try to take moments in his life and make them as special as we can.  Every year I let him pick what he wants to be for halloween.  Whatever he picks, we have to work off of … Read more

Scariest Slenderman Costume – All Homemade!

This was my 15 year old son\'s idea. Slenderman is a mythical creature turned video game persona. We went and bought two suit jackets at a thrift s

This was my 15 year old son’s idea. Slenderman is a mythical creature turned video game persona.   We went and bought two suit jackets at a thrift store, and cut the arms off one to sew on to the other. Then, we bought a twin flat sheet, and cut and sewed it to make … Read more

Artistic Homemade Madame Butterfly Costume

Artistic Homemade Madame Butterfly Costume

First off my inspiration came the day after Christmas of last year when I came across a picture of Luly Yang’s Butterfly Dress and then while researching that I found her wedding gown Kimono. I am not a seamstress but I do know how to operate a sewing machine and I am fairly artistic. Where … Read more

Creepy Dead Riding Hood and Wolf Illusion Costume

Dead Riding Hood

I got to wear my costume twice (once to work and once to a parade) therefore I have two different dresses on. My wolf started out as a mask and wolf gloves. I painted fake blood on both and added “muscles” and grandmas eyeball inside his mask. Wolfie’s mask was put on a styrofoam head … Read more

Coolest Homemade Alice in Wonderland Family Costume

Coolest Homemade Alice in Wonderland Family Costume

Here’s our Alice in Wonderland family costume. Halloween is a year long event in our household (planning + creating + hunting for good deals). Dressing up together as a family is a tradition that has evolved over the years and we all take it pretty seriously! It is our favorite time of the year. 2021 … Read more

Cool Legendary Green Man Tree Costume DIY

Lengandary Greenman

Here’s the story behind our legendary Green Man tree costume DIY. daughter wanted to be something whimsical this Halloween and finally, we decided to go with the legendary “Green Man”. This costume was so much fun to make! We created a form of her top out of tinfoil and tape and the bottom and legs … Read more

The Jetsons Costume for a Family with Hand Built Space Car!

The Jetsons Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Space Car!

Creating the Jetsons costume for our family was a great adventure! I said our Flintstones family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’), but I couldn’t resist taking a crack at … Read more