Best Baby Halloween Costume Ideas

Best baby Halloween costume ideas are the ones that are the simplest too. We can find a lot of very cute Halloween costumes for babies online with really adorable pictures of babies.

Most of these costumes are not too expensive and we can easily find good quality costumes which are not too hot and too tight for a baby.

 

Image from Public Domain Pictures (Public Domain License)

Dinosaur Head Grabber

We all know different dinosaur toys, but when I heard (well actually read) about dinosaur head grabber, I had no idea what that is, I have to admit it.

And I googled it, took a look at pictures with it and actually it's anything strange at all. It's a grabber with dinosaur head at the top of it. Something like on my sketch, when the jaws of dinosaur are actually grabbing things. Pretty simple.

What is GIMP Software?

What is Gimp software? It's GNU Image Manipulation Program. This project has been going on for about 18 years, since 1995, when Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis started it as a students at University of California, Berkeley.

It is alternative to Adobe Photoshop®, but it is open source and free. And what does that mean? Open source means that anybody can download the source code and improve it, and free means that we can download it for free.

I found GIMP few years ago and I have been using it regularly since then. There are so many things we can do with GIMP, not only complicated stuff with photo, but simple things too. A very interesting option is screen shot of our window or desktop image. There are many online screenshot programs, but they don't capture the whole screen, just the picture in the active window, that this usually the pages we are reading. And of course we can use it for "playing" with our pictures.

And what else can we do with it? There are few things we can do with it:
- change size of a picture (resize it)
- flip and rotate image
- crop photos (cut out only little pieces)
- change background
- change color of our picture
- remove red eyes
- or use different effects and filters to change our photos.

How To Clean A Pearl And Diamond Ring

You probably want to know how to clean a pearl and diamond ring when you buy it or got one as a present.

It's really interesting combination, because pearls are very tender and if they are not properly taken care off their beauty can easily vanish. And diamonds on the other side are one of the hardest things on Earth, only few years ago hardest materials than diamonds were found.

Image by JamesDeMers, Public Domain License, Pixabay

How To Dress Like Pippi Longstocking

If you are wondering how to dress like Pippi Longstocking for Halloween party or costume party, you can find few ideas right here.

Pippi Longstocking is very happy and cheerful girl and very curious girl at the same time. She loves to explore everything around her and her clothes have to be comfortable.

She is not dressed like a little princess, she resembles more to a little rascal. She is usually wearing black shoes or ankle boots and she loves large the to be large, to large for her feet, because she loves to move her fingers.

Her clothes are cozy and loose too. She usually wears short dress or skirt and a shirt. And her stockings are really special, they have to be colorful and sometimes with stripes. And because she doesn't have much time for it, she usually picks two different socks.

How about her hear? She is wearing her well known orange braids.

And if it's winter she puts on a large knitted sweater and a scarf. That's it. Pippi Longstocking is ready for new adventures.

Pictures of Sandy Beaches

Here you can find few pictures of sandy beaches, if you like beach and sand in the summer.
All these pictures are in Public Domain.

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Black Long Elegant Evening Dresses

I have always loved to wear black for special occasions and I'm really fond of black long elegant evening dresses.

They may be without sleeves or have long sleeves and they may have no back at all as long as they are long and black.

And why? Because I'm pretty short and maxi apparel at once make me look taller. And if I add high heel shoes, I have a winner at once.

Photo Red Eye Remover Free

Today I'll tell you more about two photo red eye remover free programs - Gimp and Fast Stone.

You can use Fast Stone just for personal and educational projects, if you want to use it for commercial too, you have to pay license for it. And you can use Gimp for free for personal and commercial projects.

First we'll remove red eyes with Gimp. You just simply import a picture and outline red eye (pupil) with Selection Tool. You can find Selection Tool in Toolbox, where are other useful buttons too.

When your pupil is outlined, go to Filters - Enhance - Red Eye Removal. And that's it. Red eye becomes black. Repeat with the other eye and red eyes completely disappear.

Pictures of Palm Trees on the Beach

It's summer finally and time for vacations. That's why I found few beautiful pictures of palm trees on the beach. All these pictures are in Public Domain.
Enjoy.

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Valentine's Cards for kids

I found a lot of cute Valentine's day cards for kids on zazzle.com and you can find a selection of them here in my lens Valentine's Day Cards for Kids.

Take a look.

Santa Claus With Toys

Today I'll show you how to add background to clip art.

Below is public domain clip art Santa Claus with toys from Clker by OCAL.

 

I added blue background and snowflakes... I used color #9de5ff and Gradient tool.

Then I added color #718ff3. Now it looks like this...

I imported image of Santa (above) and here it is...

I also made Santa Claus coloring page.

 

Santa Claus coloring page

I just replaced all fill colors with white (#fffffff) and outline color is black (#000000).

Merry Christmas Images Free Download

Where to find Merry Christmas images free download?

Well, Pixabay is just one of the great sites with a lot of beautiful images. And guess what, all of them are free because they are in Public Domain.

The image below, A Very Merry Christmas is just one of them. If you like it, check out the others too.

 

A Very Merry Christmas, Public Domain Image, Pixabay

Beyonce

Beyonce is very interesting artist, so I made an article about her.

In my lens “Beyonce” you can find a lot of Beyonce and Destiny’s Child music, videos from Youtube, something about her fashion “House of Dereon” and her perfumes “Beyonce Parfumes” and so on.
You are welcome to visit it right here: www.squidoo.com/_beyonce.

Beyonce, Public Domain Image, Pixabay

Thanksgiving Turkey and harvest

Here you can find another public domain clipart I changed a little bit and uploaded to openclipart.org as remix.

Originally this was turkey and harvest, uploaded by johnny_automatic and drawn by Marie Abrams.

 It looks like this.

 

Turkey and harvest

At first I made it a bit lighter with Inkscape.
I used Extensions - Color and then mostly Brighter (about five times), Less Light and More Saturation. Actually I just tried few options and if I didn't like it, I used Undo.

Here is brighter turkey.

 

 Thanksgiving turkey and harvest

Then I tried how it would look like with orange background, where I used color #f26011 and Gradient tool.

Here is my last version with orange background.

 

Thanksgiving turkey and harvest with orange background

It is public domain, you can find it on openclipart.org.

Thanksgiving Turkey

I often use clip art from openclipart.org or clker.com. These clip art are free and public domain.

I found Thanksgiving turkey on clker.com, Thanksgiving Turkey by Kara78.

I changed background with Inkscape, orange color #f26011.

Then I used Gradient tool to create a color gradient.

I also made coloring page. I changed all colors to white, except stroke paint of course, which stays black.

Fall Photos

Wow. I'm on Squidoo home page for the fourth time in a row. This time my first page lens is Fall Photos, http://www.squidoo.com/fall-photos .

I took few photos last Autumn, and they looked a bit boring and grayish. So I made a few tricks with Gimp and photos looked prettier at once. It is really easy and it doesn't take much time.

Try it yourself.

Postage stamp with Autumn leaves

Postage stamp with Autumn leaves on Zazzle.com

Halloween party songs

Are you going to Halloween party this year? Will you throw a Halloween party? Did you pick music for your party yet? 

In my lens Songs for Halloween party, http://www.squidoo.com/halloween_songs, you can find a lot of Halloween songs, suitable for Halloween party.

Take a look and listen to Halloween music.

Astronaut for Halloween

Image by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAldrin_Apollo_11.jpg

My lens Astronaut for Halloween got on the first page on Squidoo (www.squidoo.com). 

It was made for Squid-Zone SquidQuest where we had to use Squidoo's new Sci-Fi theme. We were able to write about anything we wanted. 

So I thought why not Halloween costumes? Astronaut Halloween costume is really nice costume and kids can also use it for pretend games too.

I found few astronaut suits on Amazon.com. Take a look if you would like to be an astronaut. Are you ready? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. 

 

In my Astronaut for Halloween lens you can find astronaut suits, helmet, boots, back pack, everything you need to be an astronaut.

So here is my Astronaut for Halloween lens: http://www.squidoo.com/astronaut-for-halloween.

What do you think about the costumes? And what do you think about new Sci-Fi theme?

Happy Halloween! Purple Pillow

 

Happy Halloween Purple Pillow, Zazzle

Ice cream

Vanilla and chocolate ice cream for a hot summer day...

How to crop and resize photo

Today we'll take a look at another useful tutorial. It is step by step Gimp tutorial how to crop and resize photo.

www.squidoo.com/how-to-crop-and-resize-photo

Check it out.

Mousepad with clouds

Mousepad with couds

Tux Paint Video

Colored pencils

Colored pencils for everyone who likes to draw...

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers...

How to draw grass and flowers with Tux Paint

This is my second Tux Paint tutorial, How to draw grass and flowers. 

 

The title actually says it all, you'll learn how to draw grass and colorful flowers with Tux Paint.

It's easy and fun. Let's start.

Colorful flowers and green grass

Few colorful flowers and green grass...

How to draw bubbles with Tux Paint

Here is my first Tux Paint tutorial. We'll learn how to make bubbles with Tux Paint.

After we download it (by the way, we can also download portable version for Windows here: Tux Paint Portable ), we can start right away.

Now we just open new document and...

And here is tutorial: How to draw bubbles with Tux Paint.

I hope you and especially your kids will enjoy it as much as I did.

Purple bubbles

Here are bubbles on a purple background...