At Home with Kim Vallee

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | October 21, 2009

Family-Friendly Pumpkin-Carving Stencils

We never have too many pumpkin carving stencils. These are perfect for a young family. The images should not scare young children. The skull could go with the spooky chic Halloween table I presented yesterday. Download them at HGTV Canada. + photos: HGTV.ca

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | September 23, 2009

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Easy Halloween Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins is great but we do not all have the talent of making complex design. And if you have young kids at home, they will prefer simpler images. What you need our a few printable carving templates and stencils. You do not have to carve the pumpkins, you can simply paint a silhouette or do [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | September 16, 2009

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Halloween Pumpkin-Carving Ideas

I recalled how many of you looked for pumpkin-carving ideas last year. Do not worry, I will bring you more inspirations until Halloween starting with these wonderful pumpkins that I found on Martha Stewart. The key is to decide on a theme. You get an extra WOW when you create a vignette. One thing that Martha taught [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 22, 2008

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Free Jack-O-Lantern Templates at Fantasy Pumpkins

Gladly for us, Nick Dickover is really into pumpkin carving and sculpture. Since 2000, you can admire and learn how to do his Jack-O-Lantern creations online on Fantasy Pumpkins. He gives most of his templates for free. His patterns are not for the novices. With such levels of details, many are in fact extremely difficult to [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 22, 2008

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Death Star Pumpkin and Sci-Fi Jack-O-Lanterns

If you live with teenager boys, a sure way to get them interested in helping you to carve pumpkins is to go with a science fiction theme. Let them reproduce their favorite character, robot or space ship. Wired magazine runs last year a contest. The big winner was a Death Star Pumpkin carved by the super [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 9, 2008

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Cool Decor Ideas for Halloween | Daily Quick Links

I gathered a few cool Halloween ideas that I spotted on the Web today. These are my daily quickly links. + First, I visited Horchow. This shop never ceases to impress me. The Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake would make a stunning effect on your dessert table. I would integrate it within your candy station. If you put [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 6, 2007

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Parents give more design ideas for decorating your pumpkins for Halloween

While reading How about orange (my favorite color by the way), I noticed a post on pumpkin carving. I particularly like the stencils from Parents magazine. These designs may be simpler than other I have shown you earlier but these designs are not less fascinating. To make those drawings more special, I [...]

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY entertaining | October 5, 2007

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WWF asks you to go wild with pumpkin carving

This year, why not show your support to a cause when making your Halloween decorations? For more than 45 years, World Wildlife Fund has protected our environment and ecosystems, making Earth a home where humans and animals can coexist. WWF came up with an artistic way to get their message across. They partner [...]