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Googley-Eyed Pumpkins // diy

We’re heading into the final weekend before Halloween. This is the first year that Sunny has been super super excited about the holiday. She keeps demanding that I take her to Halloween. And I keep explaining that Halloween is a day, not a place.

So we’ve been doing arts and crafts and planning our costumes to pass the time until the big event. I will do a post devoted to the kids costumes next week, but the decision was based solely on Addison’s love of a red fleece cape that my mother gave her. There were only so many options – any guesses? And Courtland has a coordinating character to go along with big sister.

In the meantime, they’re getting their glow-in-the-dark skeleton on.

Since I tackled this DIY while solo parenting, I wanted to keep mess and skill to a minimum. All we needed was some glue and some googley eyes, and BOOM! A creepy, googley-eyed pumpkin was made!

Materials:
Pumpkin
Glue (we used Mod Podge)
Brush
Googley-eyes

Directions:
1. Paint pumpkin with glue.

2. Stick googley-eyes on pumpkin in the arrangement you desire.

3. Let dry.

Crazy easy, eh? These little guys are sure to give Trick-or-Treaters the heebie jeebies! It would be cool to do this project on a larger pumpkin and try completely coating the surface in eyes. Much like theseĀ Louboutin heels, but $1,590 less expensive.

And don’t forget to check out this round-up of DIYs of Halloweens’ past.

Make ’em: 1. Pumpkin Vases; 2. Lace Pumpkins; 3. Button Spiders; 4. Glitter Pumpkins ; 5. Yarn Spiderweb ; 6. Embroidered Pumpkins

Lisa & Seth

In an effort to expand my photography skills, I did this engagement shoot for a fellow Eph/Eph couple that is slated to be married in 2013. I thought I’d share my favorites from the morning with all of you. We had a wonderful time running all around snapping photographs at some of the couple’s favorite places on campus. What’s your favorite image? It’d be really helpful to know what’s resonating with you!

Also, I have a much better appreciation for how difficult and TIRING it is to be a photographer. I only took pictures for two hours, and I came home completely exhausted. Inspired. But exhausted. It’s not easy, friends. Not at all. A very important lesson indeed.

That being said, I still have so SO much to learn, so hey, if you’re willing to let me use your images publicly (like so) and are willing to risk working with a amateur and are located in (or near) the Berkshires, shoot me an email. Let me take your picture (for a stupidly inexpensive rate) and James can even compile it into one of his amazing slideshows (like so).