CONTEST OVER! WINNERS HERE!

Here’s the scoop on the Dabbled Holiday Contest.

The theme for this season is Holiday (whichever holidays you celebrate, or do them all!) decor and gifts, recycled from something else. So your bag from recycled sweaters or your wreath from plastic bags, or whatever! You can enter as many items as you like (but you can only win with one), and we love tutorials…

HOW TO ENTER: This one will be flickr based, so you’ll need a flickr account to participate (it’s free, and I love flickr!). (This will make it easy for everyone to see all the entries, and easy…

If you missed the winners this weekend, check ‘em out here.
One of the prizes for winning is a nifty little button for your websites or whatever and here it is. And a cute little “So Close” button for those who just missed the top 5.

I’m A Winner! Buttons

For 1st through 4th Place… Snag this button to show off your accomplishments!

For 1st through 4th Place… Snag this BIG! button to show off your accomplishments!

So Close… Honorable Mention! Buttons

For the Honorable Mentions… Snag this button to show off your fabulousness!!!

For the Honorable Mentions… Snag this BIG button to show off your fabulousness!!

Twitter…

Today is the last day to get your entries in for the Halloween Contest! We have some great entries thus far, but there is still room for more! You have until 11:00 pm Eastern US time.

If you’re entering, and you have pictures on flickr, don’t forget to add them to the Dabbled Pool.

A Reminder about our Sponsors and cool Prizes!!

Sponsors for this years Dabbled Halloween have been kind enough to donate an item for a prize in the contest. And they are quite nifty and generous!

Some Art Fabric
Some Art Fabric is a really neat online fabric store. They have a really fun…

Creative Kismet (who we featured earlier with her Monster Towel), has another fabulous design! She used a reverse applique technique to create these incredibly creative and fun “Eye” T-shirts. And they even have a requisite Eye on the back, too! She has full instructions on her blog, so check it out!

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PS: Another thing I’ve been meaning to link to – Samae at A Milf For All Seasons is one of the funniest…

I don’t normally do interviews of our Halloween Contest entries, but when I saw this entry, I just had to find out more! Talk about inspiration! Dave Gugel, of Davenport FL, has one of the most impressive Halloween decorated houses I’ve seen in a long time. Just check out the BEFORE/AFTER pic below. His website has pictures of the finished product for the past several years, and pictures of the construction process and the behind the scenes of how he puts it together. So I interviewed Dave to find out a little more about his house and his passion for…

I haven’t done enough random posts lately.. Everything doesn’t need a purpose, does it?

News/reminders:
- Halloween Contest ends next Wednesday – get those entries in! And check out what’s already been entered for your own halloween inspirations (in the comments)
- Two new Dabbled Interviews in the works, one is Halloween related… watch this space
- Also, much Halloween love will be packed into the next week.
- Making/putting together a halloween costume this year for you or the kiddos? Post it or put it on flickr and email me with the link!

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So, want more Dabbled but I just don’t…

Been lazy today, at least as far as blogging goes (but I am on my 3rd day of Wii Fit!), so here are some links to the Halloween Stuff on the web, and also a roundup of Dabbled Halloween thus far.

Linky Goodness:
SwellDesigner has some really cool vintage inspired Halloween Ornaments, with tutorial. Neato! And lots of other cool halloween links over there too — check out her Terrorific Tuesday…

Superpunch has a great roundup of Halloween Related Food (includes some you’ve seen here, actually, but even more. Including these adorable monster cupcakes by My Little Mochi

Check out these skull knitted tea-cosies on Whip…

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<–Want MORE Creepy Cocktails? New Stuff HERE.

As halloween party time approaches, start thinkin’ about drinkin’! Fancy or scary, halloween cocktails can really jazz up a party.

<– The Brain Hemorage from TangoPango. Looks lovely doesn’t it? Supposedly tastes good though!

Talk of Tomatoes has several yummy sounding halloween drinks, including this Black Widow. –>
Check ‘em out. Added 10/29: Another fun drink from Talk of Tomatoes – The Maggotini!

And wow, this Dark Chocolate Martini sounds decadent from Cook & Eat.

Hostess with the Mostess points us to a great Halloween cocktail…

I’ve been promising more Halloween tutorials, so here’s another one for you! We made this halloween monster wreath for halloween in 2005… It’s pretty easy to make, and is a perennial favorite decoration, so I’ve written up a tutorial on it–since I didn’t have any pictures of the making of it, you get my fabulous hand drawings..sorry!

Click through to flickr to see bigger or download.

Related: A Dabbled Halloween – All this month! and Halloween Contest
… and if you like tutorials like this, check out Henri the Octopuppet!

*note: I don’t remember where I got the idea from, but the idea of a monster…

If you haven’t ever checked out One Pretty Thing, be sure to head over there. Rachel does a fabulous job of searching out great crafty items and tutorials, and presenting them in such a pretty way. The Daily DIY is a great compilation of coolness found on the web – an wonderful source of ideas and inspiration…
And what makes One Pretty Thing EXTRA special is that they have great Holiday roundups… The many Halloween roundups are here.

And she even features Dabbled in her latest halloween roundup!

Other great stuff from Dabbled readers:

Jack Skellington Mosaic by Red Squirrel Mosaics. All her mosaics…