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We began getting into the Halloween spirit last week (and there’s more where that came from) so we thought we’d use this week’s freebie to give one lucky person to chance to add some serious spook to their space. And we’re doing it thanks to two of our favorite collaborators: Skull-A-Day and Cardboard Safari.
Skull-A-Day is the brainchild of our good friend Noah Scalin. His yearlong project of creating skulls out of ordinary (pencils, rice) and not-so-ordinary (butterflies, vegemite) materials begat a Webby-award winning website, a book, art exhibits, an appearance on Martha Stewart and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. And now this local celeb is offering up two skull-tastic art prints for one lucky reader – the United Skull of America print (it’s a skull made out of US states!) and an Ornamental Skull print (in all of its ornate glory) – which will both bring some eerie style to your home this month (and the other eleven if you’re so inclined).
Plus, this week’s winner will score two great pieces from Cardboard Safari, who you may remember from their rhino / rocket giveaway a few months ago. This time they’re dishing out their Halloween designs – the spooky skull wreath and the tabletop puzzle skull (which was designed by Noah, btw). Both are made from recycled cardboard, in your choice of brown or white (which can also be painted any color you please).
Wanna score this eerily entertaining gift pack? Here’s how:
- PRIZE: United Skull of America & Ornamental Skull prints from Skull-A-Day, Skull Wreath & Puzzle Skull from Cardboard Safari
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “SKULL ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …tell us about your best / favorite / weirdest Halloween costume of all time. Links to pictures are encouraged. :)
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, October 14th at 8pm EST
- PRIZE SHIPS: USA only
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Get more info on our freebies at our Giveaway FAQs page. Images courtesy of Cardboard Safari and Skull-A-Day.
Britiney says
SKULL ME!! When I was about 10 my best friend and I went as bubble bath. We pinned pink balloons all over our pink satin jackets. Fun times. :O)
Heather says
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My favorite halloween costume is my one year old sons spiderman costume!
Lisa in Seattle says
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My weirdest Halloween costume was the year I went to work as a dead person. What’s more appropriate for El Dia de los Muertos, right? I had a body bag (unused, needless to say) and climbed into it, zipped it most of the way up, and wandered around the office in it. (I worked for a gaming company, so this wasn’t as outre as you might imagine.) It was all fun and games until a co-worker zipped it up all the way. Har de har.
jamie says
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When I was around 10 I went as a roller-blading Birthday present! I basically wore a cardboard box with pretty wrapping paper…and I wanted to roller blade so we added that as an after thought :)
Betty says
My college room-mate and I were a spicy addition to the party as Salt and Pepper with colanders on our heads and letters (S&P) on our chests. (Circa 1989) SKULL ME! Thanks!
LCA in RIC says
Skull Me! One year I went as the Hamburglar (Burger better watch out!)
amanda says
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My best friends and I do group costumes every year. My favorite was beauty queens. We even had a Miss Steak (yes she dressed like steak). I was Miss Matched.
Stephanie says
SKULL ME! One year I went as a spider complete with 8 moving arms. So fun and so great!
Lauren says
Skull me! These are all so neat!
I usually went as a cat! Once my friend and I went as mods and that was definitely the weirdest since people didn’t understand us at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(lifestyle)
Linda says
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One year, I was a Christmas present with my best friend. We dressed up in giant wrapped boxes around our waists (held up by suspenders, of course), and bows on our heads. So much fun! :)
Joanne says
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Ilana says
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When I was about 10 years old my best friend and I made tv costuems out of cardboard boxes. Her mom braided our hair with wire to make it stick up like an antenna.
artsy fartsy says
SKULL me! My favorite Halloween costumes are the ones my husband and I have done together…last year I went as a mad scientist and he was my monster. We had a lot of fun!
Jeanette says
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Matilda says
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My best halloween costume was a couple years ago in college when I made costumes for my roommates. We were a six pack of corona! Here’s a link to one of the pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=43320272&id=10208940
Carmen says
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My husband is 14 inches taller than me. A few years ago he went as Dr. Evil, and I went as Mini Me. Huge hit!
Liz says
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Crystal L. says
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My favorite halloween costume was Jackie O, in a black suit, pill box hat, stockings with lines up the back,white gloves, and blood splatters all down the side of me. I tried to convince someone to be my Kennedy but had no luck…maybe next year!
Jenn F says
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probably my best halloween costume was when i was a pregnant 50’s housewife and my husband was the milkman :)
Sara Scott says
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My favorite costume is the one my oldest daughter wore when she was 4. She dressed up as Dumbo and loved the outfit so much she would run around our apartment complex wearing it (with us, of course). My husband loved to chase her and her tiny little Dumbo tail would waggle as she ran. Hee hee! Cutest thing evah!
Hilary says
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I made a great last minute, DIY spider costume when I was a teenager, using black pantyhose and batting for my spider legs. I’ve recently seen similar kids costumes (at Potterybarn for example) for $$$.
Erin says
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My favorite was when my best friend and I dressed as Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in 3rd grade. All we did was wear our hair in pig tails, draw freckles on (they don’t have freckles), and make t-shirts with puff paint that had the name of which sister we were. I mean the shirts were classic with the puff paint, but it was pretty lame. Since it was pre-bage lady image there wasn’t anything that made them definable. Really, we just matched. Oh well, we still love to laugh about it!
Cari says
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Jenni says
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The most-memorable costumes: When I was in 2nd Grade, three boys went as babies. Their mom’s made them huge diapers, and they carried bottles and huge pacifiers. It was hilarious. The other was in middle school–my friend and I dressed up as old men and played a french horn duet at a talent show. How ridiculous!
Brandy says
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Pamela says
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Picture this: Two grown men sporting kilts with gigantic furry sporrans, huge polka dot ties, clown noses, and blue mohawks runniing from vineyard to vineyard in the Medoc marathon.
Jill W. says
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Shannon R. says
SKULL ME! I had a lot of great costumes as a kid and I think my 2 favorites were when I dressed up as a witch one year and a clown another year. It was pretty fun and my mom helped me go all out!
Stephanie says
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And my weirdest Halloween costume was when I was 3. My parents dressed me as a lamp by cutting armholes in a giant 70s lampshade. They also attached a plug. The things parents do to their kids… :)
Katie G says
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When I was about 12 I went as an alien princess! I had a silver wig and face and I wore a long white dress.
Lauren says
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My sister gets the prize for weirdest Halloween costume in my family. When she was 3 she desperately wanted to be the mailman. My dad (an amazing DIY’er!) made her a cardboard mailtruck that attached to her body with seatbelt suspenders. Then he talked our real mailman into lending us one of his uniform shirts for her to wear.
Chase says
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I’ll send/link pics after Halloween. Expecting a good one!
Jessica J. says
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Diana says
SKULL ME! My favorite costume was when I was about 7 or 8 and I dressed as a “movie star,” complete with my mom’s midnight blue nightie cut short, hair in an updo, lots of glammy make-up and a mascara dot mole ala Marilyn Monroe!
susan says
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my weirdest halloween costume had to be when we had NO extra money for costumes one year, so my mom took three black pairs of tights (maybe they were nylons, I don’t remember anymore), a giant black sweatshirt my dad had, and transformed me into a giant black spider. She even drew spiders’ webs all over my hands and face. Actually, it was pretty cool, considering :O) But I was used to being dressed up as a princess most years, so this was totally out of the ordinary.
Christian T says
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My husband’s family is really into theme parties so the funniest costume we ever wore were 80’s outfits for a 40th Birthday Party! They were really funny!!
nancy says
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best costume ever? Even though no one knew who I was, I dressed up as the Ranch Tooth from those Wendy’s (I think?) commercials, and I loved it. I thought the commercials were so hilarious, and when the ONE PERSON recognized me as the Ranch Tooth screamed out “Ah! Ranch Tooth!” in delight, it was all worth it.
Lauri says
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Charlotte says
SKULL ME! In college, I went two years in a row as a Freudian slip: taped Freudian vocabulary terms on a black silk slip and tried not to freeze!
Heather D. says
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My most memorable costume of all time was when my cousin and I dressed up as siamese twins. We were around 10 years old and bought a huge jumper thing from the thrift store. My hair is brown and hers is blonde so we sprayed our hair pink with that colored hairspray. Here in Colorado, Halloweens are almost always really cold so this costume was ideal becuase of the body heat and we were able to bundle up underneath the jumper. Sorry, I don’t have a picture.
Laurel says
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denise @ little ant design says
SKULL ME – seriously, SKULL ME!
This giveaway is fantastic.
As for costumes…my favorites that I have made for myself or others are – an original Oompa Loompa, gotta go old school with the Oompa, Dobby from Harry Potter – you can see a picture here…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lights/879279479/in/set-72157600971696527/
It was a last minute, super easy costume that turned out to be a first place winner – yippee!
Another easy costume and a favorite of mine because it’s hard not to fall in love with a 7 yr old punker can be found here
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5dVS8T7dCE/SROObOxPNZI/AAAAAAAACGo/ISeaas1fezI/s1600-h/IMG_2226_2.JPG
Love these costumes that a friend and I worked on
http://thebakerfam.blogspot.com/2008/04/im-peanut-butter-and-you-are-jelly.html
And the costume I made that I love the most can be found here
http://thebakerfam.blogspot.com/2007/04/finished-product.html
This took some time and effort but I am most proud of how it turned out.
After that big comment I’d just like to remind you…SKULL ME – I want this prize, pretty please!
Christen says
Skull me! My husband and I are all about the pun costumes. Last year, he was a “cereal” killer (little boxes of cereal on him with plastic knives sticking out), and I dressed as a spelling bee (bee costume with words glued everyone) to school. I reach 8th grade English, so the students loved it!
Sarah G says
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My favorite Halloween costume was when I was about 15, I dressed up as a “Haunted Doctor” with lab coat, etc, and tiny spiders crawling out of scars on my face and hands! Ewww!
Kristin EM says
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My weirdest and most uncomfortable Halloween costume was definitely not my idea. My mom dressed me up as a gift box when i was really young. She put me in a large gift-wrapped box with holes for my arms and legs and head and then stuck a huge ribbon on my head. It was absolutely miserable because when i got tired i couldn’t sit down or be carried because the box was a lot bigger than i was and was really unwieldy. I remember crying hysterically and begging to go home rather than continue trick or treating.
Kendra says
Skull Me: One year my Dad made me stilts that I learned to walk on without using my hands. There were velcro straps that wrapped around my legs. Then I dressed as a clown. The costume was very cool and prepared me to run away and join the circus in case my first career path failed!
Joy Hester says
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Sarah Bast says
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My favorite costume ever was when I was about 7. I was Jem from Jem and the Holograms. I looked hidious! It was pretty much a pink plastic bag with holes for the head and arms. I was awesome!
Debbie S. says
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A few years ago, my husband wore a soldiers uniform waist down and I wore the uniform waist up and we were “Upper and Lower GI’s” HA! :)
Tiers of Joy says
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The best Halloween costume I ever had was homemade by my very talented mother … A satin dress made in the exact fashion of Aurora’s Sleeping Beauty ball gown. She used the perfect shades of pink, and even created a beautiful sequined crown to go with it! My little sister was Cinderella that year — I just know all the other little girls in the neighborhood were jealous!