9 Couples Costume Ideas over the years

Ever since my hubby and I met pretty much, give or take a few, we have gotten dressed up for Halloween.  It was alot of fun and we get really into it. Now it's really more fun to dress up my kids because I get these grandiose ideas for myself that I never seem to have time or the sewing talent to pull off.


Let's start at the beginning shall we....

2001- Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo

scanned photo from my scrapbook- predigital days

  I started for the first time thinking of ideas that a couple could do together.And for some reason, I thought of  Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo.  Don't ask me why.  J was game to be Fred.  We figures all he needed was:

- Orange scarf
-Ligth blue Jeans ( coutersy of Wlamart)
-Blue shirt
-White sweater

Mine on the other hand was  A little harder but thanks to my mom , she whipped up an old pattern she had from the 60s  or 70s and made me the purple dress, the headband, and J and I the scarves.  I had the shoes and earrings. We both had to go  spray our hair in the parking lot of the costume store on the way there.


2002- Elvis and Priscilla

Pre-Digital.....yucky quality

 J had been joking around that he kinda looked like Elvis...but more of the 70s, a little bit of a belly Elvis. So we went to the local costume store here that rents ,early enough, and rented this beauty of a costume. We also rented the shoes which were white pleather  booties that you can't see which is a shame. We bought the glasses and he grew his sideburns super long for over a month . People were staring to wonder about him and his questionable  facial hair choices.

For me,  I bought the bouffant black wig but the  dress and coat belonged to my mom.  Awesome, right? My pretty silver eye shadow was also da-bomb. We got alot of great compliments that night. If your man can pull off an Elvis,  I say do it.


2003- No Party= No Costume


2004- Trailer park Rednecks ( I think Ashley from "Sorry kids your mom doesn't play well with others"has seen some of these folks as soccer games around here :) )

 Well, I hate to say it but we live very close to a bunch of folks who look and act just like that.  What can I say Saint Louis has an ecceltic group of folks that live all over.

If you are going to be a good redneck  trailer wife around here, you have to have:

-more kids than you can carry...see the one on my leg
-bad hair ( mullet wig)
-missing teeth
- be preggos again ( soft pillow)
-and course be smoking while with all of your kids

J only had to have:
- the mullet ( yep, another awesome wig)
- a NASCAR shirt , of course
- stone washed jeans
- A  big ugly tatoo with my name on it


2005- Hugh Hefner and a Playboy bunny

Now don't get all excited. This was the scariest outfit for me to wear EVER. First off it's freakin cold here  in Saint Louis this time of year and I'm not crazy about showing off  my thighs at all.

We had a heck of a time finding black satin PJs for J to wear. We had to get him some in the bigger ladies section of Target ( shhhhh)  We also bough the smoking jacket and borrowed the pipe.Sprying his black hair white was also quite challenging.

I got to buy another wig, the body suit,  The ears/collar/ wrist things were all together and then the fishnets.  I used some old slutty looking shoes I had. Why did I have them?  It was the late nineties. I think alot of them looked slutty.


2006- The couple from the American Gothic farm picture

I think I kinda pulled this one out of my butt. Why did I want to do this?  Again, who knows. But it looked kinda cool when it was done and it was a "couple" idea.

Again,  my mom sewed me up a plain brown dress with some rick rack on it  and I had the black and white shirts. I put brown eyeliner on my face to make it look like deep wrinkles from a distance.

J had to buy some overalls, some old man glasses, and a wig that we had to cut the hair on the sides and spray it gray.  He used his own blazer, shirt and we borrwed the pitchfork.

2007- Bunsen and Beaker from the Muppets

 You guys know all about them . They were alot of fun and really warm. Check out their post.

2008- Farmer and  a cow

J had a friend at work who told him he had a cow costume.... hey why not.  I got on my overalls, my boots,  borrowed a straw hat and threw on some plaid and J wore the  cow suit with creepy udders.  Don't look too long,  they are disturbing. We even borrowed a little cow costume for K.  There apparently was no picture taken of me . Oh well you get the idea.

2009- Some old time Greek People

Easy Peasy... two twin size white sheets and  some white t-shirts.  I added the gold leaves from Michels or walmart ...I can't remember.  It was the theme that night so that made deciding what to wear very easy. and K was a cutey pa-tutey ladybug

2010- No party= No costume

2011- Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton

Where do I come up with this shtuff? They were a singing duo so that was enough for me.  I put on my Playboy bunny wig  and made it look  big hair-ish and borrowed a much bigger bra than mine and stuffed it with pantyhose stuffed with pillow fluff. Yep....that's all fluff..trust me. I got felt up all night  by our friends.  I tried to not be offended  because it really wasn't ME they were grabbing.

Went to Goodwill thrift store to  get J some  plaid and  used the vest from his three piece suit. His hat was mine that was too small but  you got the idea. The beard was actually was very long  but it was the only white beard we could find so we cut it to  semi- normal looking length. K had to get into the picture as well.


2012= ???

I kinda  don;t think we're doing one this year but I'm ok with that because it's so much more fun now to see the kids dress up and take them out.

What are you or your kids going to be for Halloween?

Monday
What is the Gunny Sack -Making the world Cuter -Debbie Doo -DIY Show Off
-I should be mopping the Floor
Great Fun 4 Kids

Tuesday
 Tip Junkie - My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia -The Kurtz Corner
Sugar Bee - Romance On A Dime -The Winthrop Chronicles
Lil Mrs Tori Wednesday
 Someday Crafts - Sew Much Ado
 -SNAP

Thursday
Beyond the Picket Fence - Somewhat Simple - Live Laugh Rowe
- The Shabby Cottage The Taylor House- House of Hepworths 
Two In Diapers-Mommy Brain Mixer


Friday
Naptime Crafters - Stay At Home Nation
Young and Crafty -  My Turn(ForUs)
Delicate Construction
Serenity Now


Saturday

Six Sister's Stuff
Cheerios and Lattes

How to make Bunsen and Beaker Costumes

(This is a flashback blog post. We did these costumes back in 2007. I was WAY preggo with K and having issues so that's why I'm not doing much in the pictures and why there aren't as many pictures as my normal DIY stuff.)

At the time we were trying to think of an idea for costumes for our friends' annual Halloween party. We had awesome  ideas in the past and didn't want to disappoint. Heck we had even won a few contests.

Being that I was preggo,  I wanted something comfortable and warm. Halloween here in Saint Louis is usually very cold.  We went online looking and found that someone had done a Bunsen and Beaker costume.

You remember...from the Muppets? Meep Meep and explosions? That's some funny shiz-nit. So we looked at the picture we found and got started.

For Beaker we got:

- a white poster board
- 1 yard of  pink felt
- two round Styrofoam balls
- one egg shaped Styrofoam ball
- One orange feather boa for the hair
- a doctor coat from the Halloween store
- can of orange spray paint

For Bunsen we got:

- 1 yard of green fleece
- one of those hold-in-your-hand-and-bounce-it ball from Target
- pair of goofy glasses from Target ( popped out the silly eyes)
-a doctor coat from the Halloween store


We started with Bunsen since we knew we were going to paper mache his head and it would take a while to dry.  We blew up the bouncy-boppy ball and then started to make and apply the paper mache.  I don't remember ever doing it before and  it was easy but messy.

After it was dry, we  cut a smiley mouth so that I could see out. We figured I would be Bunsen since  he's kinda shorter than Beaker.

Then I started to apply the green fleece and stretch it around his head. I had have my mom help and cut it around the top of his head so it would lay flat and just have a small seem up on top.

 I then took some smaller pieces of felt and hot glued it to the sides of his head for his ears. Super easy and looked good. His nose was a little harder. We just had to sew a triangle, glue it on three sides to the head and then stuff it with some old pillow stuffing. It didn't take much. then we glued down the other end.  I got out the crazy-eyes glasses , popped out the crazy eyes and then glued them on the head as well.


With Beaker, We started by taking the poster board and wrapping it around J's head.

We drew him a mouth to see out of and cut it out as well. Then we hot glued the  fleece onto the poster board making sure to leave a bunch at the bottom of the head so J could tuck it into his shirt.

 As we were gluing the felt on we had to cut and then push it into the mouth opening and then glue it again so you couldn't see the poster board.

 I used a sharpie maker and a toilet paper roll (yep) to make the pupils on the Styrofoam eyeballs. The toilet paper rolls kept them the same size.  We took the egg shaped Styrofoam  and sprayed it orange outside.  We may have been able to paint it but it just seemed easier.

We wanted his hair to look like it did on the show so we bough the orange boa and then looped it around the outside of the poster board and then also attached it to the inside of the poster board, looping it back and forth so  that would sit right above J's head. See below.

Our heads were finally done. All and all it took two nights with all of the drying involved but it wasn't hard at all.

 We also decided that we didn't want to see our own hands , So we hand sewed ( very primitively since the they only needed to last one night) some four fingered gloves out of the green fleece  and the pink felt.  We put on our doctor coats ( we bought at the costumes store for about $15 a piece), jeans and some ties  voila!  There we were in all of our  Muppet glory.

We actually ended up selling them  in 2010 for $20 at a garage sale.  It was a shame but they took up so much room in our storage area. We saw the kids that bought them  in our neighborhood that same year.  Sniff Sniff.  They lookd good though.  I'm going to post all of other costumes coming up soon. Like I said... we were good at coming up with the couple costumes :)

What costumes have you made

Monday
What is the Gunny Sack -Making the world Cuter -Debbie Doo -DIY Show Off
-I should be mopping the Floor
Great Fun 4 Kids

Tuesday
 Tip Junkie - My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia -The Kurtz Corner
Sugar Bee - Romance On A Dime -The Winthrop Chronicles

Wednesday
 Someday Crafts - Sew Much Ado
 - Southern Lovely  -SNAP

Thursday
Beyond the Picket Fence - Somewhat Simple - Live Laugh Rowe
Loving this Crazy Life - The Shabby Cottage
The Taylor House- House of Hepworths 
Two In Diapers-Mommy Brain Mixer


Friday
Naptime Crafters - Stay At Home Nation
Young and Crafty -  My Turn(ForUs)
Delicate Construction
Serenity Now
Here Comes the Sun

Saturday

Six Sister's Stuff
Cheerios and Lattes
Natasha in Oz -Say G'Day