PigPog

PigPog – So creative it’s scary. Bwahhahhaaa….! Er. Yes. Here’s a selection of deliciously spooky ideas for Halloween…

LATEST UPDATE – You know what’s scary? That we’re just a few weeks away from Halloween again. Didn’t we just have summer? Oh well, off we go again with more spooky treats for the darkly inclined. Our first addition for 2007, a selection of spooky origami, comes from the lovely folks at Craftzine.

If you want to know more about Halloween itself, MakeZine have put together a few resources.

Pimp My Pumpkin

• Mechanised Dalek-O-Lantern – Pumpkin daleks I can handle, but if anyone does pumpkin cybermen I will have to hide behind the sofa.
• Rock Star Beer Can Pumpkin Substitute – over on our Recycled Glass Bottles and Drinks Cans page is a lantern suitable for any rock n’ roll themed Halloween party. This Slash-o-Lantern will be shining brightly at GuitarPr0n HQ‘s Halloween bash.
• Pumpkin Preservation – Experiments on how best to keep your jack-o-lantern Halloween Fresh…
• The Ultimate Geek Jack-O-Lantern – Alan Turing, immortalised in squash. And about time too.

Halloween Craft Projects

• Origami Halloween – By day it was an innocent piece of paper, but by night it was transformed into a vampire! Or a bat! Or a witch! Take your pick… via Craftzine
• Make your own costume – a collection of ideas via Lifehacker.
• Halloween Projects – one from the crypt featuring some frighteningly good ideas.
• AT-AT Costume – for those who wish for the force to be with them this Halloween.
• Pumpkin Carving – it wouldn’t be Halloween without one.
• Monster Wreath – monstrously good.
• Ray Villafane’s Carved Pumpkins – carving gruesome features into the outer core of pumpkins. Very cool.
• Pumpkin Carving for Grown-Ups – links for those who might have been inspired by Ray’s example.
• Halloween Melon Carving – for those faced with the terror of a lack of pumpkins, here’s a creepy alternative using a melon. Equally round. Equally scary.

For Your Parties

• Dirt Cups – serve cups of soil and worms to your guests.
• Halloween Recipes from Lifehacker.
• Gruesome Food for Halloween – walking the fine line between “ooh!” and “Ewwww!”.
• Costume Ideas – because putting a sheet over your head and going “woooooo!” just doesn’t cut it anymore.

More will be added as the witching hour draws nearer… but now I must away as this Elvira costume is really starting to chafe.

A full report later today, but for now a couple of photos:

Not much to report this week. Monday night saw a loss of a pound and a half, which takes my total weight loss up to Four stone, 8 and a half pounds or 64 and a half pounds or 29.2kg. I didn’t really have my eye on the ball the previous week, so really I was glad to have lost anything at all. This week has been different, I’ve been paying more attention to the plan, getting more exercise in and generally giving the whole thing the attention it deserves.

So, we’ll see what tomorrow brings. There are a few things happening at tomorrow’s meeting that I don’t want to jinx by talking about them, so I’ll just say that I might have several things to report tomorrow night. So that’s it for now… the journey continues!

Sam is currently working on the same business park as I am, but she only gets half an hour for lunch. That’s not really enough time for us to get home and back and have something to eat, so we’ve started taking packed lunch with us, and eating it in a nicely empty bit of a car park on the same business park. Since I get there half an hour before here, and the car pack backs onto a nice little footpath alongside the River Lowman, I’ve been getting a bit of extra photography time with my new Nikon D40.

There are some pretty flowers, on the left…

…and on the right…

…and even occasionally in the middle…

I’ve spent some time chasing bees, but they’re tricky little critters, and difficult to focus on…

I’ve played Peek-a-Boo with a squirrel…

…but I think the squirrel won.

I even found a grasshopper for Chris Brogan, but I don’t think he was too keen on it (click the pic to see his comment on Flickr)…

Actually, with that big spike at the back, I was glad to be able to keep my distance with the 55-200 VR zoom lens.

It’s a nice way to spend a bit of time in the middle of the day, though, and a great way to relax.