DIY Bold Halloween headpiece: Dead by scissors

If you still have no idea on how to dress up for halloween maybe i can help you.
I went to an halloween party last night and i had to prepare a scary outfit in just one day!
I went to this party with my friends and instead of picking everyone a costume we dressed as a group. We have been "the crime scene" being keen on investigations tv series. I was the victim found dead, two of my friends were the cop, another the pathologist. I characterised the costumes with just some accessories. My costume had two pieces: the crime scene band wrapped around a little black dress and around arms and a bold headpiece: the scissors headpiece.
For the police band just take a yellow plastic roll used to cover books and slice it in stripes. Now with a permanent black marker write: "Police line do not cross" and "crime scene do not cross" or something similar like we have seen a lot of times in detective tv series!

I'm going to tell you how to make the bold headpiece in no time:
you will need:

• plastic salad tongs

• silver spray paint

• black permanent marker

• red permanent marker

• a plastic transparent paper

• an headband

• transparent multi purpose glue
  

buy a pair of plastic salad tongs (every kitchen tool with handles similar to scissors will work, this is what i found) and cut away the fork and spoon part with a hacksaw.

Now refine the borders you have just cut cutting them between 30° and 45° these will allow you to place the scissors over your headband.

Now we want the scissors look real so we need to paint the handle part in black and the cutting part in silver.
Now cover up the handle part with some paper scotch and then spray the cutting part with the silver paint on both sides. It dries pretty quick then unfold the scotch and with the permanent marker color the handles in black.

Now it's time for blood. Take your transparent piece of paper and the red permanent marker and draw the contour of a water stain, how you imagine that fluid would spread on a surface, something like this. Draw a form that will cover most of the headband

fill it with red and then cut this form.
Now take your headband and glue the blood form over it. Put 2 or 3 points of glue and press the red piece over the headband.

Now take your scissors and place them just a little bit opened over the headband. Place them a little far from the center of the headband. Start opening the scissors and at some point the angled part of the border you've cut will match the curvied headband. Now with some patience glue the scissors over the headband.Wait a couple of hours and then when the glue is dried add other glue at the base of scissors.
And you're done!
Now you have your bold horror headpiece!
It made itself noticed in the party,absolutely!
Hope you enjoyed it!

Nina's Afraid, Very Afraid and That's Good

NPR's Nina Totenberg is afraid, very afraid, of this years elections. Evan Thomas less so. But you've got love his line about Paul Krugman being a "professional doomsayer."

The Nobel Laureate is becoming something of a joke even among the liberal elite.

What Nina Totenberg should be afraid of is that her corporate masters at taxpayer-funded NPR will end the double standard that allows her to express all manner of stupid opinion because she's a reliable Republican hater and not Juan Williams.



Trick or treat.

Eggheads Against Obama/Sestak

Even some Harvard Econ professors understand why the Obama/Sestak stimulus plan failed:

The Administration should have endorsed a stimulus package
based on a repeal of the corporate income tax and reductions in
employment taxes. This policy would have accomplished its
stated goals, and the budgetary implications would have been
less negative than those of the package ultimately adopted be‐
cause this alternative plan would have enhanced rather than de‐
tracted from economic efficiency. This approach would also
have been difficult for Republicans to oppose.

Yet the Administration did not take this approach, presuma‐
bly because its true goals were not just economic stimulus. In‐
stead, the Administration wanted to reward its constituencies
(unions, environmentalists, public education) and increase the
size and scope of government. This tactic is consistent with the
Administration’s policies in general. Across the board, it has
taken a big government, redistributionist approach, whether re‐
garding housing, unions, health, the auto industry, trade, anti‐
trust, or financial regulation. The Administration’s view appears
to be that government is better than individuals at deciding how
taxpayers get to spend their money and that government should
engineer large transfers from richer to poorer.

Pat Toomey couldn't have said it any better himself.

Take My Quiz

Sample question:

Joe Sestak’s cute little dog Belle actually poops in the state of Virginia because ...

a. Virginia is for Poopers

b. She doesn’t have a license to poop in Pennsylvania

c. That’s where Joe and his family actually live

d. Joe likes to take Belle on really, really, really long walks.

My print column is up.

Rigging Elections the Old Fashioned Way

Reason TV explains Gerrymandering, how it works for politicians but doesn't for good government.

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Romantic Getaway Blogger Template

Romantic Getaway Blogger template is two column blogger template with sidebar to its right and post section to its left.The theme is very beautiful and you would be going to like it for sure.Many widgets have been built inside it.Like social bookmarking icons are ready below the posts and rss button for the blog also ready at left of header in shape of heart.Also have an small welcome section at top of sidebar to write about your blog or yourself above sidebar in layout.Seo for tile has already been done for you.Top menu links are also ready for you.Search bar is also at top of header ready for you to use and is an perfect blog for romance.

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Romantic Getaway Blogger Template

Romantic Getaway Blogger template is two column blogger template with sidebar to its right and post section to its left.The theme is very beautiful and you would be going to like it for sure.Many widgets have been built inside it.Like social bookmarking icons are ready below the posts and rss button for the blog also ready at left of header in shape of heart.Also have an small welcome section at top of sidebar to write about your blog or yourself above sidebar in layout.Seo for tile has already been done for you.Top menu links are also ready for you.Search bar is also at top of header ready for you to use and is an perfect blog for romance.

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Best celebrities halloween costumes

Michael Kors as Elton John

Audrina Patridge as Madonna




Bette Midler

Kelly Ripa as Sara Palin

As Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn

Marie Antoinette

Heidi Klum has the best costumes ever seen, she unleashes her creativity on Halloween. I posted these pics to give you some ideas for your Halloween costume. Where i live we don't celebrate this holiday as a tradition, it's an imported habit to host a party, but why not?

The Fall of the American Empire

Turns out Joe Sestak isn't the only one who can use fear of China to political advantage. Come to think of it, if there is an ad that better indicts Democrats like Sestak for their votes to spend, spend, spend, I haven't seen.

Hi, Jonathan!

A little boy hears for the first time, thanks to a cochlear implant. If you haven't seen this, you should. It will do your heart good. If you have seen it, watch it again. Because it works every time.

Watch Your Fanny... and Freddie

A timely trip down memory lane on the role that Fanny and Freddie played in the mortgage meltdown and just who defended the quasi-government giants from stricter oversight and regulation.

Hint: It wasn't Republicans.



Oops, I guess the screen shot gives it away. But watch the video anyway its quite revealing.

Sestak Campaign Catches Toomey Actually Praising Tea Partiers

The Sestak campaign just sent out this devasting quote from Pat Toomey concerning the Tea Party movement:

"In my experience, the Tea Party has been just an amazing organization - not an organization, that wouldn't be their way to describe it. It's just a movement, it's a group of folks who come from all walks of life, in my experience mostly middle class people who love this country. They're concerned about its future, they're very concerned about the debt that their kids are going to have to pay back and they decided to do something about it. They're justifiably skeptical about both parties and I understand that. But I think it's a very constructive movement, because what they can do is they can force politicians to get spending under control, to remember that opportunity really comes from the private sector, that politicians work for the public, not the other way around. These folks in my experience have been a very constructive force in this cycle."

Oh, well, maybe on second thought, it would have been smarter for Sestak not to have drawn attention to such a humble, grateful and common sense statement.

Better to stick with the Chinese gong and the whole Pat Toomey would make a better Senator from China thing. That Sestak's people didn't just complete the caricature and give Toomey a set of buck teeth and slanty eyes, just shows they want to keep their campaign on the high road.

Frack, Baby, Frack

The WSJ reports that Ed Rendell and fellow Democrats are holding drilling land on the Marcellus hostage to a whopping severance tax. Twice what neighboring West Virginia extracts from the industry.

Researchers at Penn State estimated in a May report that this gas boom will boost the economy by $8 billion and provide 88,500 jobs this year, and $14.4 billion and 160,000 jobs by 2015. They also noted, ahem, that this higher economic activity will generate almost $1.8 billion in additional state and local revenues in 2010 and 2011. Mr. Rendell said in a statement that "The moratorium is important to the state's economy because it protects some of our most valuable assets." Really, he said that.

Shale production holds vast potential for depressed regions like rural Pennsylvania and upstate New York, but naturally this has made it a target of the environmental lobby. Albany also imposed a moratorium earlier this year because the greens hate hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which involves high-pressure underground injections to break up bedrock formations and release gas deposits.

Tough time to holding back one of the few job-creating industries in the state. We'll see how the voters in Marcellus region react. Are they more concerned about the government getting its "fair share," environmental worries, or jobs. Tuesday will tell.

Friday Funnies

Searching for the perfect wedding dress accessory - Jeweled necklaces and crystal belts, oh my!

Ok, so before buying a totally jeweled up wedding dress think about your accessories. Sometimes the accessories make the dress work! That is what happened to me. If you choose a wedding dress with tons of beautiful crystals and beaded work than you may not want to do any accessories or just a small pair of earrings. BUT, if you are looking at this years beautiful ruffled dresses with beautiful gathering and fabrics you may want to finish your look with a beautiful statement necklace and a beautiful crystal belt.

These jeweled and embellished necklaces are from Ranjana Khan and are just stunning! Some of them can be worn as a crystal belt accessory too!

Embellished crystal belts were all over the runway this bridal market and just add that special finishing touch to the perfect wedding dress. These are some of my favorites!

These Badgley Mischka Crystal Belts are fab!

This Romona Keveza Crystal Belt is so elegant!

Paul the Prognosticator

NYT's Paul Krugman predicts the coming Republican majority in Congress will be a disaster for the country, turning America into hellish place unfit for human habitation.

In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness.

That's some prediction. So how good is Paul at making predictions about the economy.

Well, two years ago, he was urging the President of the United States not to lowball a stimulus package. What the country needed was a stimulus package that was "twice the size" of anything being contemplated by Congress. A bold and muscular spending spree that would get the economy humming again. So this is what he wrote on Nov. 10, 2008:

So we need a fiscal stimulus big enough to close a 7% output gap. Remember, if the stimulus is too big, it does much less harm than if it’s too small. What’s the multiplier? Better, we hope, than on the early-2008 package. But you’d be hard pressed to argue for an overall multiplier as high as 2.

When I put all this together, I conclude that the stimulus package should be at least 4% of GDP, or $600 billion.

Some voters might recall the president and Democratic Congress took Paul's advice and not only didn't "lowball" the stimulus, they went "big" and threw in an extra $200 billion in spending just to be on the safe side.

And the result? 9.5 percent unemployment, slug, slug, sluggish growth and deficits for as far as the eye can see. That Paul Krugman is really good a predicting things isn't he?

UPDATE: Makes you wonder whether Pat Toomey's idea of a 3-year payroll tax holiday for employers and employees might have made for better results.

How About a Nice Cup of Tea?

Tea Partiers have been misunderstood, mocked, insulted and smeared by liberal commentators far and wide. They are about to have the first of possibly many last laughs. My print column is up.

Whatever Means Necessary

Breaking from ABC News:

Democratic Closing Argument: Personal Attacks
Democrats Attack Over Personal Issues, Republicans Over Policy

Whatever it takes, right?

In one typical example, Democratic ads have transformed Kentucky Republican House candidate Andy Barr into "a convicted criminal" -- complete with images yellow police tape and fuzzy video of crime scenes. Not mentioned is his crime: As a college student 19 years ago, he was caught using a fake ID during spring break.

The old law school saw comes to mind: If you've got the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you've got the law on your side, argue the law. If you've got neither, pound the table.... and accuse the other side of worshipping the Aqua Buddha.

Know Your Enemies

Chucky the K wonders whatever happened to our Uniter in Chief:

In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who "sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.' " Quite a uniter, urging Hispanics to go to the polls to exact political revenge on their enemies - presumably, for example, the near-60 percent of Americans who support the new Arizona immigration law.

This from a president who won't even use "enemies" to describe an Iranian regime that is helping kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. This from a man who rose to prominence thunderously declaring that we were not blue states or red states, not black America or white America or Latino America - but the United States of America.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

Charles goes on to predict: "The Dems lose 60 House seats, eight in the Senate. Rangers in seven." That was written obviously before last night's contest. I say, Rangers in eight.

Clinton's Folly

Headline:

Former President Clinton stumps for Dems at Cheyney.

And there is no truth to the rumor that Mr. Clinton attempted to persuade Bryan Lentz to drop out of his congressional race so that his running mate Jim Schneller would have a better shot at winning.

Highlights:

Clinton said he understands the concerns of Americans.

“People don’t feel fixed,” Clinton said. “OK, we didn’t get out of the hole, at least we didn’t stop digging.”

Yes. We were in a hole. So the Democrats kept digging and digging and digging. Making the hole bigger and bigger and bigger. The lesson is supposed to be when you're in a hole, quit digging. Not in Washington. In Washington, if you've spent yourself into a deficit hole, you're supposed to keep spending and spending and spending until the hole is so big it swallows your Democratic majority.

During the Clinton presidency it was only after the voters handed him a Republican Congress the budget was ultimately balanced. Voters appear ready to do the same favor for Mr. Obama.

The masquerade Ball

After the big Vogue masquerade ball even Grazia hosted a similar party and with the upcoming Halloween it's time to grab the opportunity to play with fashion and mystere and wear a mask!
Look at some ideas i found surfing:

Mask sunglasses, even with added nose

Leather butterfly mask buy it here


Marie Antoinette, here

The leather cat mask


Lace bat, here


Lace mask, here

here
Would it be cool do it on our own?