halloween pumpkin carving stencils for college students [ok, and little kids too ;)]

When you get to be in college, you start to feel a little more creative when it is coming to pumpkin carving. Last year my pumpkin was Bettie Page:


and I haven't picked out a stencil for this year. I'm going to share some links with you guys on the best places to find stencils on the net for that last minute pumpkin carving needs.

- SprayPaintStencils.com carries free printable stencils with letters, unicorns, President Bush, cassette tape, sports, transportation, even DINOSAURS, you name it, they have it. All kinds of unconventional stencils that are for spray painting, but would be even better for pumpkin carving.

- About.com has free stencils of a ghost, spider, claw hand, raven, headless ghost, wand, skeleton, and the devil.

- About.com also has these stencils which contain a bat, a swarm of bats, jack o lantern faces, a witch on a broom, cat, lightning bolt, and a moon face.

- Stencil Punks has band stencils and awesome punk stencils that would make some really unique pumpkins.

- And here you can find pumpkin stencils for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Hilary Clinton, Oprah, David Letterman, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Michael Phelps celebrity pumpkin stencils... and also they carry some basics such as an owl, bat, and a garden scene.

- For those of you who are REALLY trying to get into pumpkin carving this year, MarthaStewart.com has 36 pumpkin ideas for you. Some of them are a lot of work, but for the most part, they are going to be way above and beyond what your friends are trying to do with their pumpkins. If you're looking to be a superstar at the pumpkin carving contest this year, check out Martha, she will take good care of you.

Hopefully I've given you some ideas on great pumpkins for this Halloween. Please, whatever you do, be careful with those sharp objects when you are carving your pumpkins! Trips to the hospital are no fun and think of how many drunk people will be in that waiting room with you.

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- Zenobia Hikes... gone but never forgotten. She was one amazing person.

- Tegan and Sara - They remind me of my trip to Washington DC back in May with some amazing friends.




- Halloween. This has always been my favorite holiday. Tomorrow, tomorrow, holy crap, it couldn't possibly be tomorrow. I'm as excited about tomorrow as kids get on Christmas morning. Since I already posted a couple of YouTube videos, I'll throw one in there from our Halloween party last year. Do you know who he is supposed to be?


- Charlie The Unicorn. Now I'm just getting insane with this whole YouTube thing, but really, I can't quit with just one. I just saw Part 2 for the first time a couple of days ago and it was just as rediculous as the original. They remind me of the stories that I used to write back in high school when my brain would go numb in math class.




- JPG Photo Contests... And I love even more than that when people vote for me so please spare a minute or two of your time:

...more to come :)

random musings

I love playing on Polyvore so much. Sometimes I put together some really random things such as:


blue moon

and


code pink

Really, I'm not sure where I was going with either one of those.

And some inspiration via Flickr:

1. Farmer's Market Raspberries, 2. WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME, 3. the south pole as it should be, 4. TINNA, 5. Again & again, 6. Goethes poem, 7. hansel and gretel, 8. Untitled, 9. alice's pumpkin.

linkin logs

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Okay, a few days ago I promised you great things in the form of links. I seemed to have so many in mind then and I should have wrote them down because it didn't end up looking like a very impressive list... But I did promise you folks a list and I'll share all the ones I can remember for today.

Been Booed rocks my world. You print out these pages and attach a sweet treat and give it to someone, but it's a secret who did it. They are supposed to turn around and do it to two more people and so on and so on. Great activity to bring you and your neighbors and friends closer together this Halloween.

Pinup Girl Clothing Blog has amazing pinup outfits and now that it's close to Halloween they have adorable costumes. Their photography is pretty good also.

Creature Comforts - "designs for all creatures great and small"

Design Freebies is a great blog that posts links to where you can download some pretty amazing graphic design stuff for free.

Debauchette... okay I really stole this one from Gala Darling, but it was so amazing I decided to mention it. Extremely poronographic so don't check it out when you are at work or school.

Girl Savage is the Etsy shop where you can buy the feltidermy that I mentioned on my last post.

Spratters and Jayne sells these really amazing "Chunky 'n' Cozy, Cowl/NeckWarmer/Scarflette/Scarf". I want one so bad, but I'd like to learn to make them myself. It's given me more motivation to craft.

And how could I ever fortget fd's Flickr Toys which is what I used to make the Flickr favorites mosaic at the beginning of this post.

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Sorry, but my list is going to be a bit short this week because it is getting late and I have a lot of homework left to do... but what is more important than homework? Being grateful for what I've got going on in my life so I felt like I really needed to bust out a TILT list this week because I've been feeling a little down in the dumps.

-Obama. I'm not a super political person and usually I keep that stuff to myself, but it is hard to avoid politics and what I feel is right. In this situation it was a real no brainer for me. No more McSame. And on that political note, while I'm on my tangent here I want to share this photo that I saw today that really cracked me up [check out the scarf if you didn't get where I was going with this]

photo from MediaBistro

-Climbing trees... It's highly likely that this will be on my list next week too as I plan on doing a lot of tree climbing over the next week. I got off the bus after work today and there was my old roommate outside of Rite Aid. I told him I had been sad and all I wanted to do that would make me feel better would be to climb a tree. So we found a tree and by god we climbed it and it was amazing. I professed my undying love for him accordingly.

-Field trips with my photography club. Last week we went to Cascades in Pembroke, VA. Sunday we are going to Pandapas Pond. I love being the president of something :) A couple pictures from the trip:










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-Martha Stewart. I'm not sure why I always assumed that Martha was for old folks. I guess that's why they say assuming makes an ass out of you and me huh? Her Halloween crafts are to die for. Like I really want that stuff around my house 24/7.

-Feltidermy. I love Etsy and boy do I love feltidermy. You really have to check it out. I want a huge deer mounted on wood to put up on my wall because I've always wanted a deer head mounted, but I am positive that I would cry every time I saw it.


-Friends who will do laundry with you. I always have to do my laundry and my boyfriends laundry. This task frequently falls on Thursdays and leaves me without the opportunity to watch my favorite show, The Office. This week it happened to be worth it because my dear friend came out to the laundry mat with me to gossip and it was AMAZING. I will never look at laundry the same way again.

-The Internet. I have a million links to share, so I'm just going to save them till later on, but be prepared because on Monday, there will be a great list of amazing shops, blogs, crafts, and more.

-My mom. Not that she isn't always the most amazing person in my life, but today she created a Facebook account. My friends couldn't believe that I was excited about it because they would die if their parents had Facebook. Not I. My mom is my best friend. There are things that I don't tell her because I respect her and I don't want her to worry about me, but if it is something that I would post on the Internet, it isn't something that I would keep from her.

That's all for now folks ;)