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Here’s a final cheap and easy Halloween costume suggestion that I found on the Halloween.com website. You can make it in about a minute with a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, and a piece of tape. Write the words “nudist on strike” on the paper and tape it anywhere on your clothing. You [...]

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Here’s another of those comfortable Halloween costumes that won’t cost you anything.
Wear whatever clothes you want. Pin socks, small towels, maybe even a pair of (clean) underwear to yourself. If you use dryer sheets, add a couple used one…

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If you never had the pleasure of visiting a saltbox, here’s a photo of one. The Evans Road home I wrote about looks a lot like this piece of history, and it  is on some impressive Millcreek acreage. And it includes a barn. I’m a sucker for barns. House to Home is full of great [...]

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For a comfortable Halloween costume that doesn’t cost anything, slip into a favorite pair of your PJs, a pair of pajama pants and a shirt or a nightgown and go as a pajama partyer. Add slippers if you have a pair that you don’t mind possibly ruining by wearing outside. Or maybe slide an old [...]

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Just in time for this Halloween season, here’s a couple pictures of a creepy, abandoned (at least I hope no one lives there) farmhouse.These photos were taking June 22 with my point-and-shoot. Uh. I can’t recall where I was at, but I was between Union …

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Have a favorite TV game show or reality show? Turn yourself into a contestant for Halloween. It could be as simple as making yourself a large and colorful name tag and going around saying, “I’d like to buy a vowel.” Or taping a ball to the top of a toilet paper roll to make yourself [...]

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A few years back, as a sort of family joke, my youngest brother and I both were referring to our mother as a pirate. For a gag gift, we each went to a dollar store and bought her a kid’s pirate play set. She ended up with a pirate hat, hoop earring, eye patch, sword, [...]

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Have any Halloween weekend plans? Join tens of thousands that gather in downtown Meadville to for the Annual Halloween Parade this Saturday, October 29. Sponsored

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Thanks to Amy from A is for Ampersand for posting this super cute nail polish tutorial over at Kate’s Irrelevant. I used: – Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Green with Envy – L.A. Girl Cracked Nail Polish in Erupt (the best crackle nail polish I’ve found!) – L.A. Colors Art [...]

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For the price of a bag of balloons and a garbage bag, you can create a fun and colorful although somewhat challenging to wear Halloween costume. First, blow up a bunch of different colored oblong balloons. Then cut leg holes in the bottom of a clear garbage bag and arm holes in the sides. Dress [...]

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You gotta love Halloween. I do. The top 10 costumes include the Smurfs, Harry Potter, superheroes and pirates, according to TipTop10s.com. But princesses, as we all know, never go out of style. Neither do Star Wars characters or all the heartthrobs from vampire movies. My 23-year-old daughter is going retro this year. She and friends [...]

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Yesterday I gave you an idea for an inexpensive Halloween costume to wear in warm weather. Here’s one for places where it’s cold. Bundle up in a thick sweater and put on warm pants. Then wrap an arm or leg in white gauze, paper or cardboard to resemble a cast. Add a sling or crutches [...]

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As anyone who grew up trick-or-treating in Erie knows, the weather here on Oct. 31 can be hit-or-miss. Some years it’s warm enough to go out in shorts and other years you need to wear a snowsuit under your costume. It’s a little too soon to predict what the temperature will be a week from [...]

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Halloween is just a week away and before you rush out to buy a costume, call a friend or family member. See if someone has a costume you can borrow. Maybe your neighbor next door still has the Spider-Man costume her son wore last year and your son wants this year. Ask your sister if [...]

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An old cardboard box or some poster board, a little paint or markers and some string or ribbon can turn you into a beautiful butterfly for Halloween. Cut your wings out of the cardboard or poster board. Use paint, markers, glitter glue or whatever else you have around the house to decorate your wings. Punch [...]

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for putting together a Halloween costume for the cost of a couple rolls of cheap toilet paper. Wrap the TP around your arms, legs, body and head. Walk with your legs stiff and your arms out in front of you and moan. Just make sure you wear clothes underneath. Cheap toilet paper won’t cost much [...]

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I hope you’ve enjoyed the Halloween costume ideas so far this week. I have more yet to come. Some of them are my own and some are from several Internet sites. If you can’t wait for me to share more or want to get started on another costume this weekend, here are a couple web [...]

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If you’re going to a Halloween party with a group of people you know, it could be fun to dress up as one of them. Have a friend with a distinctive style of dress? Copy it. Or borrow your wife’s favorite dress or the one suit your dad wears everywhere. Adopt their mannerisms and favorite [...]

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Many women have at least one — that less than lovely dress you wore as a bridesmaid and held onto because you were convinced you’d someday wear it again but haven’t yet and never really will. Until now. Pull out that tacky dress and turn it into a free Halloween costume. Frizz your hair. Cover [...]

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One year I dressed up for Halloween as Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” and my costume didn’t cost me a single cent. The reason? I found everything I needed in my closet. (OK, maybe it’s sad that my personal wardrobe at the time resembled that of a girl from Kansas who was deposited in [...]

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The big trick-or-treat holiday is approaching fast. Costumes for you and your kids don’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Unless, of course, your costume requires you to buy a fake arm and a leg. Over the next two weeks leading up to Halloween, I’ll share some costume ideas that will cost [...]

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I don’t like horror movies. And I normally only go along on haunted house tours unless friends are dragging me. But I would gladly return

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It’s been dubbed the Great Pumpkin Shortage of 2011. You can’t say you haven’t wondered whether we have to worry about it here. All of this hype about pumpkin shortages, even though everything I read is coming out of the North East part of this country, prompted me to do some of my own research. I did [...]

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The following is a list of great area attractions to get you in the spirit of Halloween.

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If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. For a complete list of area Halloween and Fall events, see our special coverage. This [...]

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For a list of Erie Halloween events for 2009, please see this year’s Erie Halloween post Trick or Treat! Yes it’s that time of year when kids and adults alike look forward to dressing up in costumes, visit pumpkin farms and cornfields, and haunted houses. We’ve provided you a list of area attractions and events [...]

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