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It's November... the lovely autumn is coming to an end. *sniff*

But last weekend was a major, MAJOR highlight for me-

I took these awesome portraits...

But the most amazing thing ever is... I MADE BOKEH!!! WITHOUT REALIZING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOKEH FTW!!! (spaz attack)

Magic.

(None of these photos have been through Photoshop yet)

Look at the pretty bokeh. LOOK AT IT!

Last Minute Chevron Pumpkins

Halloween is fast approaching- which means I'm lagging a bit behind. *Sigh* I guess I'm just not festive enough. A big sparkly featured store display someplace I went to was already selling silver whatnots and 2013!

Anyhoo, I decided to to something simple with my pumpkins this year. Then I found this on marthastewart.com

Leave it to Martha.

Unfortunately, being the procrastinator I am, I wasn't able to get plastic vampire teeth. Thus, I was left with two little sugar pumpkins, no materials.

Like any "creative", I was too stubborn to just carve them.

This is what i came up with:

Behold! My very Sharpie'd pumpkin!

Inspired by the lovely scrapbook paper you see on the right left.

How I did it:

1. Draw chevron stripes all over a pumpkin. This may or may not test your patience. They don't have to be perfect!
2. Color where you want the colors to be!
3. For the black circles stripe, I drew a bunch of circles next to each other inside the stripe. I then filled in the leftover space outside of the circles. See below. (Yes, I made it in paint in under 5 minutes using one color and my computer mouse. Don't judge me!)
4. Your Sharpie may get smudged (onto your hands) during the process. That's fine- just go over the lines again after you're done! Sharpie will come off of your hands using alcohol based hand sanitizer, or just a cotton pad/ball and some rubbing alcohol!

Some more pics of the pumpkin detail. As you can see, it's not perfect (and shouldn't be!). I like the starburst effect from the top view. 

Overall: I'm happier with the results than I expected! It does take a lot of time and Sharpie ink, though. I may need to replace the black one...