div style="text-align: justify;"Halloween is the absolutenbsp;strongbest/strong time of year to take your DIY skills to another level -nbsp; because everyone knows thatnbsp;crazy handmadenbsp;digs always take the cake in thenbsp;costume stakes.nbsp;On that note,nbsp;I'm excited to announce thatnbsp;mega fashion community a href="http://www.chictopia.com/"Chictopia /ais kicking off Halloween with its first everb a href="https://www.chictopia.com/contest/I-Die-for-DIY-Costume-Contest"I DIE FOR DIY/a /bcostume contest. And guess what? They've asked me to help judge the best entries, along with my girl Jenni of a href="http://ispy-diy.blogspot.com/"I Spy DIY/a and Chictopia's own DIY experts. The best news? The grand prize includes b$300/b in cash (ummm as in actual money!), 500 Chic Points, a feature on the Chictopia homepage, and a profile on the Chictopia blog.br /br /So if you plan on throwing together a crazy cool Halloween outfitnbsp;make sure you document it early in the evening and upload it at Chictopia once your party headache has worn off.br /br /To enter, upload your outfit over at a href="https://www.chictopia.com/contest/I-Die-for-DIY-Costume-Contest"Chictopia/a and tag the 'Style' asnbsp; iI Die for DIY./i In the entry, write about how your costume came about and if you made it yourself. Your costume doesn't strictly have to be DIY, but you know me -nbsp;I'll be drawn to those that are! A handful of the most voted, favorited, commented and retweeted entries will be contenders as the winning entries. I hope you'll get involved,nbsp;because Inbsp;absolutely can't wait to see everyone's entries and work with Chictopia to pick a winner!nbsp;Click a href="https://www.chictopia.com/contest/I-Die-for-DIY-Costume-Contest"here/a to read more about the contest.nbsp;br /br /Lacking in costume inspiration? Check back here this week because I have some lined up for you.../divbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtasCqj6zU0/TqLWyTkhxtI/AAAAAAAAEwU/Xebv4DmWL1M/s1600/ddiymainimage2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="260px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtasCqj6zU0/TqLWyTkhxtI/AAAAAAAAEwU/Xebv4DmWL1M/s640/ddiymainimage2.jpg" width="640px" //a/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8784775234411105189-224194400519101136?l=apair-andaspare.blogspot.com' alt='' //div