This halloween i decided to become a price is right contestant. Im OBSSESED with the show and it would be a dream come true to go to the show. but obviously that cant be done soo decided to become a contestant in spirit. overall i spent 20-30 dollars on the costume. below is how i … Read more
Let me start by saying I LOVE halloween. I tossed around many ideas for the month leading up to halloween. While I had two strong costume ideas, for whatever reason I just never got started on either one, and both would have required some serious planning. So here it was Thur, the 31st and I … Read more
After selling antiques for years, Aunt Jemima has always been a favorite to collect. I decided to bring her back to life as a Halloween costume. I went to the local Goodwill and found an old skirt and shirt. I had an apron.with some cutting and hot glue, I had the perfect skirt. All I … Read more
Since we have the perfect body types for Shrek and Fiona the decision for what costumes to wear was easy! A couple’s Shrek costume and Fiona costume. I made Fiona’s dress using a Simplicity pattern, ordered the wig online and followed a tutorial on YouTube with step by step instructions how to do Fiona’s makeup. … Read more
My original idea for a costume was “People of Walmart” but was I unable to find a flesh colored body suit to give the appearance of showing way to much skin without actually showing skin. (Hey, it’s cold here in Michigan.) So, it was on to plan B. I grabbed some boxes from the recycle pile at … Read more
I am not a sewer in the least so I probably made this harder than it was with a lot of trial and error. I made a skirt for the wrapper of the cupcake. I made pleats in the skirt to look like a cupcake wrapper. The skirt took me three evenings to get … Read more
I wanted to be the Wizard of OZ family for Halloween, but why pay $30+ per costume?!? So I made them! For the scarecrow I took sweat pants/shirt found at the Goodwill ($5 total) and took some worn out/stained/no longer used shirts laying around the house, cut them up and made patches out of them … Read more
We are three friends (two of us sisters) who wanted to do something together this year. Our very good friends throw a huge bash, complete with a DJ, for about 100 people. We finally came up with and agreed upon being the Sanderson Sisters from Hocus Pocus, and we were so excited. We didn’t tell … Read more
I decided I wanted to be Ursula for Halloween this year. I am an idea girl and not a seamstress, so I had to enlist my talented mother to sew for me. She’s able to take my words and terrible drawings and create my visions. We did a simple extra long tube dress out of … Read more
This costume was so hard to make considering it was all duct tape! The process wasn’t bad it was just time consuming. I (the lime) used an old tshirt as a base while the other two wrapped themselves in toilet paper first. Yeah, I didn’t have time for that! The easiet way to do this … Read more
I made my leprechaun sitting on a pot of gold for this year’s work costume contest. I am always trying to win the most original category so this is what I came up with. The hill is made out of chicken wire. I didn’t give it any other structure, just several layers, bent and twisted … Read more
My wife and I were thrilled at the chance for our first true family group costume. We were going to be all the “bouncy” characters from Winnie the Pooh stories! My wife and infant son would be Kanga and Roo, and I would be Tigger. We were lucky enough to find a commercial jumpsuit pattern … Read more