Homemade Halloween Costumes--Even for Celebrities

As an adult, I love homemade Halloween costumes.  When I was a kid, not so much.  I was horrified that we couldn't go buy a costume like my friends did, but my mom was pretty emphatic that we were going the homemade route every year, and looking back, I'm so glad we did.  Now, I do the same with my children.  Sure, I'll buy a mask or a sword as an accessory, but the costume itself is so much cooler when it's made by hand.  And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.  Statistics show 50% of parents make costumes for their children.  Maybe that's because money is tight or maybe they are just last minute and need to throw together a ghost costume hours before trick-or-treating.  Or maybe they are like me and believe that it means more when it's made by hand.  I still remember my father making "Three Little Pig" costumes for me and my two sisters, complete with huge, round pig heads made weeks in advance, custom-fit for our heads.  And I remember the next year when I was Sylvester the cat, my older sister was Granny and my younger sister was Tweety Bird.  We even pushed her around in a cage made from my brother's skate boards.  My dad went all out and we won costume awards because of it (do they still have costume contests?).  My youngest was a life size football for her first Halloween and has since been a mermaid, a cowgirl and this year will be a cat.  I talked recently with some celebrities about their favorite costumes of the past and they had fond memories of costumes ranging from Santa to a Ladybug (see video below).  The best response I heard was from Lonni Paul (design star and partners with Tiffani Amber Thiessen on nursery furniture line PetitNest).  Lonnie tells me she remembers being Wonder Woman and instantly feeling all-powerful as a little girl.  Now that's a costume I'm all for every day of the year!