This cool little pumpkin house is located at the Dallas Arboretum. They’ve got all sorts of Halloween activities going on, so if you happen to be in the neighborhood, you might want to check them out.

To see my other pumpkin house efforts during the Offbeat Halloween season you can visit:

• Offbeat Pumpkin Architecture
• Pumpkin Architecture Take Two

If you and the family are headed out for some trick-or-treating tonight, be sure to take your camera. Then head over to Simply Thrifty and enter the Little Monsters Costume Contest! You could win a Seagate FreeAgent Go.

[image via Dallas Arboretum]

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Pumpkin House

For this post, the Blogtoberfest prize was:

EcoSMART Flying Insect Killer from EcoSMART. EcoSMART is a company that develops organic insecticides that kill bugs and pests fast. However, besides being organic, EcoSMART’s products are 100% safe around children & pets and smell fresh & minty, not all gross and chemical-like.

We had a ton of entries, which was kind of odd, considering how silent Offbeat readers tend to be. I think everyone must just like pixels. The randomly drawn winner is…

#98 – better known as Leslie D., who said, “Pixels. That is one, busy couch. I don’t know if I could stand it! It makes me remember the first time we went to Atlantic City. The carpet patterns and colors are wild- made my head spin! Thanks!”

Congratulations to Leslie, I’ll email you soon for your contact info.

Thanks to everyone else who played this season of Blogtoberfest. Thanks as well to, EcoSMART our Flying Insect Killer prize sponsor.

If you didn’t win, no worries, there are some other blog contests around you can enter…

• At Inhabitots, there’s a stupendous Green Halloween contest happening. It’s easy to enter – simply leave a comment with one brilliant green Halloween idea. The prizes in this contest are so adorable too – great green goods for the kiddos.
• SheKnows has 2 great contests happening. The first is a cute kids costume contest and then there’s an even more adorable pregnant Halloween belly painting contest. Entering one of these contests will make you eligible for a very nice prize pack – a Philips Lifestyle Prize Pack, which includes a Norelco Shaver, Digital Photo Frame, Electric Toothbrush, Bikini Perfect Shaver & Headphones! Not bad. Click here to learn more and enter. 

Or you can…

Post from: Blisstree

Final Blogtoberfest Winner

For this post, the Blogtoberfest prize was a:

Scan-on-the-Go Secure card from Network Intercept.

The Scan-on-the-Go Secure card is a portable identity theft protection & virus scanning solution that will protect you online no matter where you are. Small enough to fit in your wallet but powerful enough to stop malicious threats in a single bound. Scan-on-the-Go will help you practice safe computing on any and every PC you use and works on any Windows PC world-wide.

This is a great prize if you’re a frequent (or even occasional) on-the-go computer user. If you’re not, this makes a great stocking stuffer for anyone with a computer.

We had 31 entries, and our randomly drawn winner is…
#29 – better known as Diana Corlett, who said, “Surprisingly, I kind of like the look. A fairytale house…using paint instead of gingerbread and candy decorations. Love to win too!”

Congratulations to Diana, I’ll email you soon for your contact info.

Thanks to everyone else who played this round of Blogtoberfest. A big thanks as well to Network Intercept, our Scan-on-the-Go Secure card prize sponsor.

What if you didn’t win? No worries, there are more blog contests around you can enter…  Such as:

• First up, at Inhabitots, there’s a stupendous Green Halloween contest happening. It’s so easy to enter – simply leave a comment with one brilliant green Halloween idea.
• SheKnows has 2 great contests happening. The first is a cute kids costume contest and then there’s an even more adorable pregnant Halloween belly painting contest. Entering one of these contests will make you eligible for a very nice prize pack – a Philips Lifestyle Prize Pack, which includes a Norelco Shaver, Digital Photo Frame, Electric Toothbrush, Bikini Perfect Shaver & Headphones! Not bad. Click here to learn more and enter. 
• For the gift wrapping challenged, there’s a National Search for the Worst Gift Wrapper in America at Bowdabra. By submitting your entry you are guaranteed to receive a free gift wrapping e-book valued at $19.99 along with the chance to win many other cool prizes.
• For crafty folks, there’s the DIY Halloween Contest with so many cool prizes you won’t believe your eyes.
• AND don’t forget to hunt around the Lifestyles Channel for that little Blogtoberfest icon, there’s still a mass of prizes available, but Blogtoberfest is all over soon, so hurry up and get hunting.

Have fun! 

[images via Network Intercept]

Post from: Blisstree

Offbeat Home’s First Blogtoberfest Winner!