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Fab Freebie: Skulloween

***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries***

We began getting into the Halloween spirit last week (and there’s more where that came from) so we thought we’d use this week’s freebie to give one lucky person to chance to add some serious spook to their space. And we’re doing it thanks to two of our favorite collaborators: Skull-A-Day and Cardboard Safari.

Skull-A-Day is the brainchild of our good friend Noah Scalin. His yearlong project of creating skulls out of ordinary (pencils, rice) and not-so-ordinary (butterflies, vegemite) materials begat a Webby-award winning website, a book, art exhibits, an appearance on Martha Stewart and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. And now this local celeb is offering up two skull-tastic art prints for one lucky reader – the United Skull of America print (it’s a skull made out of US states!) and an Ornamental Skull print (in all of its ornate glory) – which will both bring some eerie style to your home this month (and the other eleven if you’re so inclined).

Skull America Print

Skull Ornamental Print

Plus, this week’s winner will score two great pieces from Cardboard Safari, who you may remember from their rhino / rocket giveaway a few months ago. This time they’re dishing out their Halloween designs – the spooky skull wreath and the tabletop puzzle skull (which was designed by Noah, btw). Both are made from recycled cardboard, in your choice of brown or white (which can also be painted any color you please).

Skull Cardboard Safari

Wanna score this eerily entertaining gift pack? Here’s how:

  • PRIZE: United Skull of America & Ornamental Skull prints from Skull-A-Day, Skull Wreath & Puzzle Skull from Cardboard Safari
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “SKULL ME” and…
  • BONUS QUESTION: …tell us about your best / favorite / weirdest Halloween costume of all time. Links to pictures are encouraged. :)
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, October 14th at 8pm EST
  • PRIZE SHIPS: USA only
  • USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!

Get more info on our freebies at our Giveaway FAQs page. Images courtesy of Cardboard Safari and Skull-A-Day.

Comments

  1. Michele Daggar says

    SKULL ME!!!

    Just very boring costumes growing up …. cheerleader, bunny, ghost. My favorite was when I was Laura Ingalls from Little House On The Prairie. Love that show!

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  4. Sally says

    Skull me!!! These are awesome freebies!

    Best costume as a kid: Ghostbuster. Best Costume as adult: Flower – foot long “petals” surrounded my face, held in place by the green hooded sweatshirt. Actually, that costume got a lot of wear at non-Halloween times too.

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  5. Val says

    SKULL ME!

    My husband will be so stoked if I win this. Now that he’s seen them, he’ll probably be buying them anyway.

    I’m always a pirate, which isn’t all that exciting I guess. But I would like to state for the record that I was dressing up as a pirate way before Johnny Depp. And he doesn’t have a handmade corset in his pirate ensemble. (Actually, knowing him, he probably does…oh, Johnny…)

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  6. LINDZ says

    SKULL ME! I was a mad doctor with a fake head and meat cleaver…scrubs and all. By far the best I was in middle school when I did it though.

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  7. Megan S says

    SKULL ME! I think my favorite costume was the Bride of Frankenstein. I wore my black college choir dress, covered my face, neck and hands in white make up and used an eyeliner pencil to “stitch” my skin. I have a lot of hair which came in handy when creating the lighting strike up-do. Very memorable!

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  9. Deborah Daugherty-Engle says

    When I was about 8, my mom made me a Martha Washington costume, with the wig, buckles on my shoes, and everything! My neighbors Mom made him a George Washington costume, with wig, and all! We won our school Halloween Costume Contest; we were the best looking couple at the carnival, so SKULL ME!!!

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  10. Christina Peterson says

    Skull me! My college roomate and I wore giant muumus, tacky make-up, and sported extra large chests.

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  14. chrissy says

    skull me!

    one year i was a california raisin, i think it was 3rd grade or 4th grade. no one knew who i was. now i look at the costume and think i looked more like dooty.

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  15. Virginia says

    SKULL ME!

    In 6th grade, I made my own refrigerator costume – I did the whole thing myself, all the doors & drawers worked. I won a costume contest with this one.

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  16. Amanda Ray says

    SKULL ME!

    I have a yellow M&M costume that my step mother made me when I was about 10. I wore it again this past year…I was 22.

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  18. methetree says

    SKULL ME C:=

    I once was a bunch of grapes. The costume was bright green tights and leotard, an extra large extra long burgundy t-shirt, and a ton of balloons, burgundy of course. It was great…
    When the evening was finished, we got to pop all the balloons…

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  19. Annette S says

    SKULL ME!
    I have to say, I’m not much of a Halloween person, and I’ve only worn maybe two costumes since I was in junior high. However, my signifiant other LOVES skull imagery, and these items would add to his collection.

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  23. erin b says

    SKULL ME!

    remember that “this is your brain on drugs” campaign? i was an egg in a frying pan. envision the face as a yoke with the white made out of a foam. i wore all black and my dad helped build a large black “pan” from cardboard. i won a gift cert for $25 at the local mall. sa-weet!

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  24. heather freckle says

    skull me:

    I have never actually been invited to a Halloween party and at work we aren’t allowed to dress up. I have giant frizzy red hair, so I suppose I could do a pretty good pippi longstocking or better yet woody wood pecker!

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  25. Amber says

    ???SKULL ME???

    For Halloween in the third grade I was Glenda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz. We went to the thrift store and got a pink bridesmaid dress which my mom took in to my size. I also had the tall crown with the stars and a wand. I won prettiest costume in our Halloween parade that year. I was pretty proud of myself.

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  27. Rebecca says

    SKULL ME!

    One year my husband and I were the painting ‘American Gothic’, with our own frame that was cut in half so we could walk around seperately but when we stood next to each other, our frames lined up.

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  29. Christa says

    SKULL ME!
    I think my favorite costume was as a cat when I was little – I got to wear feety pajamas out of the house…it was great! And props to my parents for being resourceful and creating a costume out of something we already owned!

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  31. Elizabeth says

    SKULL ME!

    In the 9th grade I sewed a medieval costume. Some background is required: I went to Waldorf schools but had been homeschooling for the past year. My regular-school friend invited me to a Halloween party. My mom suggested I dress up my costume with garlic and wear fake warts on my face and go as a victim of the plague. “It’s scarier that way” my mom ever-so=innocently suggested. So I did and it was just like in Mean Girls: All the public school girls were scantily clad and there I was with my fake warts peeling off and 15 garlic bulbs strung around my neck. Amazingly, I still got hit on and was actually asked out on a date by a kid nicknamed Ferris.

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  33. alex d. says

    SKULL ME!!

    I went as what I defined as Incaic Superman. I had a red cape, underwear over my pants, a wool incaic hat, and a cane.

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  35. Lisa Ovesen says

    SKULL ME!!

    I don’t know what my best costume was but I’ve had some good ones. I went as Dolly Parton twice when I was a little girl..big, stuffed bra, Dolly wig & a twang. :) That was the era of the movie “9 to 5” so it wasn’t THAT weird..

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  37. Savannah Kirsche says

    SKULL ME!

    Best costume was Wonder Woman a few years ago, had a theme party “superheros”…it was great!

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  38. linny says

    SKULL ME

    all time favorite costume was me as at 7 as a tyrannosaurus – a costume my grandmother made me out of a green sweat suit completed with reflector spikes. as a kid, i resented never having the plastic drugstore masks, but my halloween pictures are the coolest!

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  39. carrie price says

    skull me please!
    i love dressing up for halloween! my favorite was the year i went as wonder woman, and i got my husband to dress as superman. it was the first and last time we wore matching costumes, but it was adorable while it lasted.

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  40. maegan says

    SKULL ME!!

    best costume, thats easy las year I was a devied egg, so easy to DIY, wear all white add felt yolk to your belly and then devil horns/tail.. an viola a deviled egg!

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  41. Steffanie M. says

    “SKULL ME” I would say last year was my best costume. We went as a couple of “Mavericks.” I went as Sarah Palin and my husband went as “Maverick” from top gun. It was a huge hit.

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  45. kristy says

    Three years ago, my hubby and I dressed up like Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife, Beth. Hubs rocked the costume, and I was a little, well, uncomfortable. So, last year, we dug out Dog again, but this time I went as one of the junkies he is so great at capturing. That costume was way more fun!

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  47. erin says

    Skull me!

    My best costume as an adult was probably the year I was a gypsy. That one was really fun, with the coins all draped around my waist and gobs of crazy makeup and jangly bracelets.

    But, the best ever was when I was… a year and a half? old and I was a devil for Halloween. The pictures show me all decked out in horns and a cape, with a pacifier firmly wedged in my mouth. Scary, huh? :)

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