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For Gladimhere, Garden Artist, Hope, Pamzimmit, and everyone else who wants to turn October into a harvest celebration! Carve a pumpkin, take a picture, post it in AC forum as your Avatar. Have fun! Creative types welcome. Istock photo helped me.
Lost, she got lost in a pumpkin patch, after the technical lessons, her brain exploded, just like an exploding pumpkin, so there she goes, after another piece of pie....
Send it is an eagle. Head and beak at about 10 o'clock. Wing at 2 o'clock. Book's trick when she cannot tell what an image is? Copy it into a word document, then she can see it.
No, yard still looks awful! Maybe in the spring, early...
OK, Sendme.....I'm in, but for the moment, best I can do are my jack-o-lantern lights bracing the front door (and my lovely little pumpkins in the wreath, which I know aren't visible in this photo....sorry)....give me a moment.....or 2 or 3 or.....
Glad, "siggies" (sort for signatures) are graphics popular a dozen or so years ago on the now defunct Better Homes & Gardens and Midwest Living forums. Some of the posters were very skilled with photographic and artwork manipulation.
If I recall correctly, there were some websites that posted the basic graphics for free downloading. Delphi used to be one. Posters with Photoshop or other high end graphics software downloaded them, added vector images, manipulated and created specific siggies for other posters, sometimes adding names or seasonal greetings.
I had hundreds of them. They may still be used in forums which accommodate graphics, but I haven't seen any in years. Some of the ones made for me were cute, others were beautiful. I still add them to e-mails occasionally.
It was always fun to add a specific siggie to a relevant post, linking the subject matter to the graphics. We used to have a lot of fun with them.
Just P'M'ed Glad with a link to some Halloween siggies. PM me if you want that link; it would be deleted if I posted in one of the messages boxes because of its dot com URL.
I can't take credit, but this pumpkin was carved by my Very talented Eldest Son last year. One of his many interests, besides being a Super Dad to my Beautiful Grandson's, is Salt Water Aquariums, and he has a huge one in his livingroom, filled with amazing and colorfulplants and fish, its Gorgeous! So, he found just the perfect round pumpkin, that would hold a fish bowl,added a spooky Skull, and other Haloweeny stuff, and even bubbles and lighting. The kids loved it, and Rob won 1st prize at his work place Pumpkin Carving Contest! These days, my Pumpkin for Halloween consists of plugging a craft store pumpkin into the wall, lol, but I have 4 grown kids, so I've carved a few hundred pumpkins in my life, and those days are over, too bloody much messy work! Unless one of my Grandies wants to, that is! I'll do anything for kisses from them!
Gladimhere, I Love Your Pumpkin, very original! GARDENARTIST, Is that an eyeball in your Avatar? ? I'll try enlarging to see it better! I love this thread too! Wish the images could be better or we could post actual pix! Good luck everyone, Is ther going to be prizes awarded? Lol!
Stacey, that's such a cute observation, and so appropriate for Halloween! No, it's not an eyeball, but rather a Heavenly Blue morning glory with a happy little bee gathering pollen for his or her beehive.
Stacey, prizes? The pumpkin carving ideas came from glad and garden artist, and hope agreed. We should ask them, because I am really not the pumpkin lady, I am the turkey ghost.
Okay, what's a turkey ghost? Am I missing something here? I never was very up-to-date on contemporary ideas!
Stacey, one of the gardening forums I used to visit had a harvest contest in which other members voted for photos of best, worst, and other categories of produce. I honestly don't even remember at this point contributing to the idea of pumpkin avatars here, so I certainly wouldn't have any objections one way or the other to a contest. Competitors might also want to set up a PhotoBucket or other offsite photo storage site to post competitive photos since we can't post them here.
I would like to change direction a bit and share information on some interesting Halloween displays I saw yesterday.
One was at a house in which a giant spider web, anchored to the roof, was spread out about 30' from the roof in both directions (straight out to the front as well as to the side), taking up about half the lawn. It really was quite lovely and graceful. Once the giant spider comes though, it could be very frightful.
I was thinking of doing that but instead make a smiling pink Breast Cancer spider, with big eyes and sweet smiling lips. Who says a spider has to be menacing?
Another was a house with the most beautiful and lovely ghosts. They were actually dreamy, like ballerinas moving effortlessly and so gracefully across a stage. The ghosts were made of some white frothy material, perhaps nylon or some type of wedding fabric, with I'm guessing at least about 6 yards of material in all.
The material was anchored to the center "body" in such a way that it moved gently with the wind, just as if it were in fact a dancer. One ghost was on each side of the front sidewalk up to the house.
If you've ever watched flags flutter in a strong breeze, the effect was the same.
There was a good wind last night, so watching them was like watching an impromptu dance.
They're going to be my models. I might use old sheets instead of bridal material, a foam head covered with sheets with a few features, and stick the base of the long center "bodies" in the ground and watch them dance with the wind.
Since we have a mayoral election this November, just for the heck of it I might add a political support sign for the mayoral candidate for whom I probably will vote.
GardenArtist, I just googled turkey ghost and up came this cartoon character pointing to 'a turkey ghost' Maybe it is the ghost of the turkey that they justckilled off so they could eat turkey.
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Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
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You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
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Did you get the yard, plants fixed, or is that for later?
No, yard still looks awful! Maybe in the spring, early...
If I recall correctly, there were some websites that posted the basic graphics for free downloading. Delphi used to be one. Posters with Photoshop or other high end graphics software downloaded them, added vector images, manipulated and created specific siggies for other posters, sometimes adding names or seasonal greetings.
I had hundreds of them. They may still be used in forums which accommodate graphics, but I haven't seen any in years. Some of the ones made for me were cute, others were beautiful. I still add them to e-mails occasionally.
It was always fun to add a specific siggie to a relevant post, linking the subject matter to the graphics. We used to have a lot of fun with them.
Stacey, one of the gardening forums I used to visit had a harvest contest in which other members voted for photos of best, worst, and other categories of produce. I honestly don't even remember at this point contributing to the idea of pumpkin avatars here, so I certainly wouldn't have any objections one way or the other to a contest. Competitors might also want to set up a PhotoBucket or other offsite photo storage site to post competitive photos since we can't post them here.
I would like to change direction a bit and share information on some interesting Halloween displays I saw yesterday.
One was at a house in which a giant spider web, anchored to the roof, was spread out about 30' from the roof in both directions (straight out to the front as well as to the side), taking up about half the lawn. It really was quite lovely and graceful. Once the giant spider comes though, it could be very frightful.
I was thinking of doing that but instead make a smiling pink Breast Cancer spider, with big eyes and sweet smiling lips. Who says a spider has to be menacing?
Another was a house with the most beautiful and lovely ghosts. They were actually dreamy, like ballerinas moving effortlessly and so gracefully across a stage. The ghosts were made of some white frothy material, perhaps nylon or some type of wedding fabric, with I'm guessing at least about 6 yards of material in all.
The material was anchored to the center "body" in such a way that it moved gently with the wind, just as if it were in fact a dancer. One ghost was on each side of the front sidewalk up to the house.
If you've ever watched flags flutter in a strong breeze, the effect was the same.
There was a good wind last night, so watching them was like watching an impromptu dance.
They're going to be my models. I might use old sheets instead of bridal material, a foam head covered with sheets with a few features, and stick the base of the long center "bodies" in the ground and watch them dance with the wind.
Since we have a mayoral election this November, just for the heck of it I might add a political support sign for the mayoral candidate for whom I probably will vote.