Thread: Help I need ideas!

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My hubby and I are stumped on what we will be this year. I used to be really good at coming up with ideas but for some reason I am having trouble the past 2 years. I focus more on my decorating and not on our costumes but this year I want to blow everyone away. Please help, any suggestions are appreciated.
This is what we have been in the past:

flapper and gangster
Witch and warlock
Morticia and Gomez Adams
cupid and Venus
a midget circus ring master and Tippy the target
Black widow and headless man
vampire and gangster

Lucy and Desi
Cleopatra and Marc Anthony
Ski bunny and Abominable Snow Man (my friend and her hubby did this one year and won lots of best costume prizes!)
Tourists
Bonnie and Clyde
Adam and Eve
Mike and Carol Brady

This website is great too for ideas: www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com

Those are great ideas. I like the Lucy and Desi I have red hair so that might be a good one for us. Ski bunny and Abominable Snow man is cute too.

One year we did The Terminator and Sara Conner

We were going to be fortune teller's but I can't get a handle on how to dress hubby.

I picked up a costume (new in package) today of a Roman or Greek costume with toga---like Caesar. So, now I am thinking other directions. Hubby has never liked wine too much, but during the heat this summer he has taken to drining wine. So, I was thinking about us being the God and Goddess of Wine. He could use the toga.

Okay, I just pulled out the costume I bought yestersday and it is called Hail Caesar. It is the long white garment and a deep purple scarf thing that is attached at the shoulder. It also has the gold writst cuffs and the head laurel leaf thing. It is brand new and is big enough for him to wear (yeah since most of skimpy) I wish it had burgandy instead of the purple. WIll it look funny to have the God of Wine in purple?

Printers, I think purple is the best color.

Here's a few more
Caveman & Woman
The Flintstones
Ginger and the Skipper Or Gilligan

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. My wife and I did that one years ago, it was a big hit. She wore a sexy red dress and I wore a tuxedo along with my makeup.

-Chris

I was in Goodwill today and they had a bunch of dog costumes including one that has a big purple cluster of grapes. I may go back and get one and use it somehow with the God of Wine costume. It would add some humor.

Persephone and Hades.
Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman.
Arwen and Aragorn.
Katrina and Ichabod Crane.
Marge and Homer, in their usual appearances, or one of their many characters from the Treehouse of horror episodes.

i think some very original custumes are ones that are homemade and based on current events - example - casey anthony, libya guerilla, etc etc