Halloween Costumes!

lol omg

Did you make that? D:

yar

Good joerb!

The half-transparency of his cap is awesome.

Great job.

Awsome bic!

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wife and son!

Truly amazing Bic.

I sang your praises on my superb blog http://www.ryansgoblog.com/2006/11/01/h ... o-pumpkin/ (soon to be assimilated D:!!!!!).

jackpot.

i made meatwad last year and a few years ago i made a crazy ehadless horseman thing. there are websites taht ahve free stencils and stuff. i saw the mario one but the guy wanted to charge, so i went to the nintendo website and found a mario wallpaper and traced it and made the pattern myself in photoshop. printed it and then took a pin and went over the lines with 100000s of tiny holes. connected the dots with a pen and started carving. someone made the same thing and i saw it on college humor a few days ago.

Since Tata didn't post.

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Oh and I have to post this, so you all know where Halloween actually came from originally:

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Halloween, known as Samhain (or "Sow-en" for the Gaelic-minded) to the ancient Celts of northern Europe, was a time when the boundaries between this world and the next were weakened and beings could cross over to this world. Bonfires were lit on hilltops to keep evil spirits at bay and hideously distorted masks were worn to protect its wearer from the mischief of these otherworldly travelers.This is one of the oldest observed holidays we have, even if it has been stripped of its original sentiments. The symbolic gestures are still there and enacted and therefore the ancient custom of Halloween is still very much alive, if however in another sense.

The modern form of Halloween comes more or less directly from Ireland, one of the last refuges of the Celtic people. Samhain, however, was once observed from Switzerland to Spain to Ireland when the Celts roamed these areas nearly 3,000 years ago.

Samhain was the time of the harvest and the beginning of the new year for the Celts. It was the end of the old year and the beginning of winter when the nights started to grow longer. At this time, the crops were harvested and stored, the cattle not needed for milking or breeding were slaughtered, and the apprentices, travelers, warriors, and bards either returned home or took lodgings to sit out the winter.

The long nights were spent recounting tales of heroes, lovers, ghosts and fairies. Outside it was believed that the "fairy folk" whom once driven into underground exile by the Celts went abroad again as did other less savory beings.

As one of the in-between days that was neither part of the old or new year, Samhain was seen as one of those especially powerful times when the boundaries of this world and the otherworld were weakened allowing the fairy folk and the spirits of the departed easier passage to this one.

Not all of these otherworldly travelers were harmless and steps had to be taken to either placate them or frighten them off. Great fires were made on hilltops to drive these malignant spirits away. Into these fires were thrown sacrificial items of personal possessions. Also thrown in were the bones of the cattle slaughtered at harvest time.

This tradition held long after the origins of this practice were forgotten. In later years, these fires were called "bone-fires" in English and later simply "bonfires."

Frightening masks were worn to either scare off harmful spirits or confuse them into mistaking the wearer for a fellow spirit. In staying with the theme of light keeping the forces of darkness at bay, the Celts would carry hollowed-out turnips carved into fearful shapes lit with a candle or coal.

This was the origin of the Jack-o-Lantern. The pumpkin, a plucky native plant of North America, was found to be a perfect Jack-o-Lantern by Irish immigrants in the 19th century.

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I love history

mojo wins

cant wait for the last book..

the winner

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Why are the nipples pushed?

Bic Ball, Very good job, care for a tutorial? btw please send a pic of meatwad, I'would love that!!!

print picture, tape to pumpkin, trace pattern with pins, cut holes.

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i really need to find a pic of the pumpkin i carved a few years ago, you'd be really impressed.

Mojo's Shaun of the dead is brilliant

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i really need to find a pic of the pumpkin i carved a few years ago, you'd be really impressed.

meatwad?

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please send a pic of meatwad