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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.