Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Join me for Terrorific Tuesdays!

terrorific tuesday banner

If you haven’t already guessed I just love Halloween! I would call myself the queen, but I’ll settle for princess (I do have the tiara after all). And I have my own black cat too! That's my cat Pixie in the banner above, the official mascot of Terrorific Tuesdays. She's actually more of a scaredy cat than a scary cat!

If you have been reading my blog for a couple of months, you may have noticed that I've been posting a project each Tuesday and titling it my Terrorific Tuesday project. Well, I wanted to expand upon this idea and open it up to all my blog friends out on the "web"! I wanted to create a blog circle for October focusing on Halloween crafts and ideas. Tons of people are looking for clever ideas during this season in every shape and form and I wanted to create a positive, happy network of crafters for that!

You can choose as little or as much as you want to participate. I don’t want this to be something you stress over! Halloween is supposed to be FUN after all!

All I ask is that you please contact me and atleast let me know that you are interested so that I won't be surprised last minute by someone I don't know.

Guidelines:

1. Project can be a new or old idea. There will be no set theme from week to week. You can choose to include or not include instructions in your post, but I do ask that you post a photo and a brief description or explanation as to why you were inspired to make that particular project.

Consider one of the following ideas for your post:
- home décor
- jewelry/accessories
- spooky food and drink recipes
- party and table decor
- clever costumes
- cards and paper crafts
- invitations
- outdoor décor
- pumpkin carving/painting

2. I want to keep this simple for everyone. I don’t want there to have to be a set day of the week that you post your project. For example, if you want to post your project on the Friday prior to October 6th, that’s fine, just send me the URL to that post via direct message on twitter (swelldesigner) or e-mail (swelldesigner@yahoo.com). If you want to be included in the Terrorific Tuesday Halloween Crafts and Ideas Roundup for that week, the absolute deadline is 6pm (Eastern time) on each Monday of October 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. I will send a reminder on Monday morning on Twitter. Please get it to me each Monday by 6pm, or expect to have your project left off the roundup until the following week.

On that Monday evening, I will compile all the links and create a cute photo mosaic of all the featured projects and write up copy for everyone to use on their blogs. I will e-mail you back late Monday evening this info for you to be able to post in your blogs on Tuesday.

As you probably already know, I like promotion, so I’ll try to stir up some interest on the “web” after our first post! Hopefully it will generate excitement, while also generating us some positive traffic.

Here's a little button I made for you to be able to promote this fun roundup on your web site. Click on it and it will take you to the HTML code and the Hot link information that you can then copy and paste into your own web site.

terrorific web banner for promotion

I can't wait to see what you guys "brew" up!

Until next time Swellions!

Alexa

14 comments:

Melissa J. Lee said...

Thanks, Alexa. This will be fun. I love the button (and the photo of Pixie - black cats are the best!) - have posted it on my blog.

Phyllis Dobbs said...

Back cats are definitely the best! (except for last night when mine would not go to sleep and was quite vocal).

The Terrorific Tuesday is a fabulous idea and I am looking forward to it. Thanks for the button, and code, I will post it to my blog and website.

CC5 said...

I would love to join in! Count me in if you don't mind... I already have a few things in mind. Woo hoo!

Lori-Lyn said...

I wanna play! I love the button!

Rachel@oneprettything.com said...

How exciting! I *LOVE* your Halloween projects!!! I'll be linking to all your Halloween posts!

Amy from Texas said...

Count me in! I have a black cat too. His name is Rocky Balboa. Looking forward to the fun Halloween ideas:-)

Amy from Texas said...

Hey Alexa,

I have a post for you...
http://livinglocurto.com/2008/09/29/witchy-porch/

I also linked to your Terrorific Tuesdays!! Have a great day:-)
Amy

Dot said...

very cool--i'll be linking over to this! I'm doing a whole halloween month on Dabbled. Check it out, and see if there's anything you want to use. You might like this one: http://www.dabbled.org/2008/09/halloween-food-flayed-skin-cheeseball.html

Dot

Contessa Kris said...

Everyone's creations this first week are beautiful! I want to try a few.

Paula Clare said...

I wanna play! I have a few creations already brewing...urls to come!

Huggles,
Paula Clare

Paula Clare said...

Here is a recent url...plus my url for my Art In Season shoppe...it's ALL Halloween!

http://pclouse.blogspot.com/2008/10/its-flippin-disaaaaahstuhand-more.html

Skeletina: 1 balsa wood skeleton from Michael's, paint, glitter, tulle netting. An easy, peasy project!

http://www.artinseason.com

I can write up directions for any of the projects on the page...

mermaid musings said...

I came via L-L
I want to play! I will send you my url when ready. Thank YOU!

Michelle McGee said...

Gosh, I LOVE this, Alexa!!!!!

mary beth said...

How Fun! I have a pumpkin craft/decoration on my blog using tin cans and paint...super simple and you can use it to hold candy, etc. The good thing is it does not take a lot of time to make, it's cheap and it is something even kids could do. http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/?p=112

 
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