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Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week back after Thanksgiving break! I had a fairly laid-back week including taking an Excel Expert certification test for work (I passed yay!) and grabbing drinks with some friends last night. Tonight my friend Lauren and I are headed down to Maryland after work to visit our friend Alex's hometown. I love visiting Alex because not only is she one of my best friends who I don't get to see enough, but her family is so sweet and they have three adorable dogs (here's the dog's Instagram if you're a fellow bulldog lover). Follow along on snapchat @lauraaimevous for lots of puppy snaps! 

I wanted to keep it brief today and post a seasonally appropriate link post rather than my typical Friday links. I have some gifts ordered for the holidays (how is it ALREADY December?!?!) and so now I'm starting to turn to some inspiration for fun wrapping paper ideas! I feel like half the fun of giving gifts is making them look beautiful and surprising your friends and family with the festive packages. I rounded up ten of my favorite wrapping DIY ideas from around the internet which would be fun to try this Christmas/Holiday season, or even for birthdays or other occasions! 

How was your week? Do you have any fun wrapping paper ideas? I hope you have a great weekend!

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10 No-Carve DIY Pumpkin Ideas

Image Credit: Studio DIY

Decorating pumpkins is a fall right of passage. I remember trying to come up with interesting carving ideas every year and inevitably messing them up. Always halfway through carving the pumpkin I would get so annoyed with the entire process of scooping out the insides of the pumpkin that I would lose focus on the end goal (is this just me?) Well, this year I wanted to do something a little different. Luckily my friend Lauren has just moved to Philly and she is more than willing to help me DIY some fun, and different pumpkins. To decide what we wanted to make I put together this list of 10 DIY pumpkins that involve NO CARVING! Not only are they more unique that your classic pumpkin, I think they're much chicer and won't go bad as quickly! Hopefully some of these can provide you some DIY inspiration as well!

1. Donut Pumpkins by Studio DIY

2. Crackle Pumpkins by A Week from Thursday

3. Pastel Pun-kins from Studio DIY

 4. Gilded Ombre Pumpkin by Style me Pretty

5. Easy Glam Crystal Pumpkins from Setting for Four

6. Nail-Polish Marbled Pumpkins by Say Yes

7. Bling Pumpkin by The Swell Designer

8. Sharpie Skull Pumpkin by Brit Co (my favorite!)

9. Glitter Pumpkins by Martha Stewart

10. Confetti Pumpkin by Madigan Made

Which one is your favorite? Place your votes for which ones Lauren and I should re-create, we'll be posting pictures on Instagram of the finished products (hopefully, unless its a fail and then we will just pretend this never happened) 

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