I think I'm in love with this trend! Great excuse to go make some lipstick purchases.

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This is my style of pumpkin carving! I love how this metallic pumpkin candle turned out. 

To start, for texture, I made hot glue "beads" in lines around the pumpkin and then covered the whole thing with a coat of gold spray paint. Next, I just carved out the pumpkin like normal and placed the wick inside in the center. The best way I knew to keep the wick in the center was to hold it steady with two knives...weird, I know...but it worked!  I used soy wax for the candle part and did my best to actually follow the directions on the package (go me!). I wanted to melt the wax in a container I could throw away after making the mess so I just found a glass spaghetti sauce jar to use...it also worked great to pour the wax into the pumpkin. I had never done a project with wax before so I really had no idea what I was doing or what to expect...but it went pretty smoothly! Overall, it was the perfect nontraditional pumpkin carving!

Time for some bold, oversized goodies! Here are a few of my go-to items to begin the season:

Cat eye glasses: La Marquise, Bon Look  /// Oversized metal earrings and gold scorpion ring: vintage ///  Teardrop statement necklace: Target (clearance rack! score!)  Stripe socks: Jcrew  /// Nail Polish: Sephora by OPI, IM Beauty (yellow) & Charge It! (metallic gold)

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I'm a sucker for patterns....and painting. Normally I would be 100% against painting over wood floors... BUT, this would be the perfect solution for my attic space. Right now it's partially carpeted (and that wasn't even done well) I was talking with my friend who worked as a contractor for awhile about how I wanted to tear up the carpet and "restore" the wood underneath (sand and stain) He told me it wasn't actual wood flooring it was just the wood baseboards and that wouldn't work out well blah blah blah. (Still don't know what that really means haha) With that being said, simply painting over it will be the most cost effective and visually appealing choice. I have to decided on design, colors and then tear out the carpet, remove the staples and clean up/prep the floor. It'll be a process but hopefully the outcome will be well worth it.