Ideas For Couple Costumes

If you are going out with your date or spouse this Halloween, you are probably looking for ideas for couple costumes. You can buy your costumes because most of these costumes are available in local supermarkets and online or you can make them yourself - just use your imagination and creativity.

Here are some of them and I hope they are helpful too. Let's see.

Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf

You can dress as little gentle and naive girl in red and big scary Wolf. And if you are looking for funny idea - how about changing the roles and lady can be the wolf and man Little Red Riding hood?

Smurf Halloween Costumes Kids

Smurf Halloween costumes - kids absolutely love them. And how to dress like a Smurf is probably a question that appears often around Halloween.

Smurfs have been with us for so long that almost all of us watched them as a kid and fortunately they haven't changed much in all these years.

Their main color combination is white and blue, except Papa Smurf is dressed in white and red. And that's basically it.

Easy Superhero Costumes For Men To Make

How about easy superhero costumes for men to make for Halloween party? Is it really easy or not? Is it easier to just buy them or to make them at home?

Sometimes superhero costumes can be quite expensive if you want good quality costume and you want to wear it next year too.

But if you want something inexpensive, you can buy cheaper costume or make one at home - and it will be unique too. So how to make them?

Image by OCAL, Public Domain License, Clker

Pippi Longstocking Costumes For Kids

Pippi Longstocking costumes for kids are really cute Halloween costumes. Below you can see pictures of girls dressed in Pippi costume.

This is actually very simple costume. You'll need an orange wig (it can be made out yarn too), too large shoes or boots, too large shirt and dress and stockings, if possible in two different colors. She can also wear little blue shorts with little dots under her dress. And put few freckle on girl's cheeks too.

Easy Funny Homemade Halloween Costumes

Do you like easy funny homemade Halloween costumes? Would you like to make one this year for Halloween, to have a unique costume?

Let's take a look at few ideas for costumes and simple instructions how to make them. And I hope you'll have as much fun making them as wearing them at Halloween party.

Cat costume

This costume can be really funny if men are wearing it, especially if it's sexy cat.

Dress in black shirt with long sleeves, black tights, add cat tail (sew it on tights) and cat ears - they v+can be bought for very low price. And at the end just add cat make-up - black nose, whiskers and eyes and you are done.

Kiss Rock Band Makeup - Gene Simmons Makeup Stencil and Paul Stanley Face Paint

Are you looking for Kiss Rock band makeup? On this page you can find Gene Simmons makeup stencil and Paul Stanley face paint.

I made two articles with Kiss costumes for Halloween - Gene Simmons Costumes For Adults and Kiss Costumes For Women. On both pages there are pictures with Kiss make-up. I found this pictures on Wikimedia Commons page, they were made by Willtron.

Baby Costume Ideas For Adults

If you decided to wear baby costume for Halloween this year, you can find some baby costume ideas for adults on this page.

Baby costume can be very comfortable, you can wear just a jumpsuit and that's it. You can choose pink or blue costume and add for instance a bottle for babies and a pacifier - you can use enlarged toy or regular pacifier.

In some baby costume sets you'll get just large (fake) diaper instead of jumpsuit and a bib and sometimes baby cap is added too.

Baby boy by papapishu (Public Domain License), Openclipart

Kiss Costume Ideas

If you are looking for Kiss costume ideas for Halloween, you can find quite a lot of them. In article Gene Simmons Costume there are just few of them, but you can find costumes of other Kiss members too. There are Kiss costumes for men, for women, for kids, different wigs, Kiss boots and even Kiss axe guitar.

Image by FrehleyKISS, Public Domain License, Wikimedia Commons

And if you need Kiss make-up ideas you can find a lot of them too. You can check out The Demon makeup stencil and The Starchild makeup stencil and watch how Gene Simmons puts on his black and white make-up.

Halloween drawings for kids

Kids love drawing and coloring. And they can draw so many drawings for any holiday. On this page you can find easy Halloween drawings for kids - I made simple drawings of pumpkin, ghost, witch hat and bats.

Soon kids will find new ideas what to draw or even make a simple mask. You can use their drawings for party invitations or to decorate kids room or your house.

And the most important is that you can spend some quality time with your kids and have a lot of fun.

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

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