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It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween.  Have you checked out our Halloween Ideas page yet?  Loaded with tips & tricks for everything from pumpkin carving to table settings, its all you need to get ready for even the spookiest of parties.

We’ve also got a Halloween Photo Contest going on.  Each week, our favorite photo will get placed on the main page of our Halloween area, as well as receive a prize pack of items from Grandin Road, including a $50 gift certificate.  Check out some of our favorite photos so far.

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I hope everyone enjoyed our live coverage from the Route 127 sale last week.  Of course, it happened to be the same day that Twitter went down, so we weren’t able to tweet out our findings like planned, but we did take lots of notes and pictures.  Hopefully everyone else had as much fun on their adventures as we did.  Here are a few tips we picked up a long the way.

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Earlier this week, our friends over at FrontDoor.com announced a partnership with 250 newspaper across the country. Along with enhancing their current listings, newspapers will eventually be able to take advantage of FrontDoor’s offerings of articles and video content from real estate experts.

The first site to launch with enhanced FrontDoor content is San Francisco’s own SFGate.com.  The deal covers listing with newspapers owned by Cox Newspapers, Freedom Newspapers, Journal Register Co. and Southern Newspaper Group.

Keep en eye out for FrontDoor coming to a newspaper near you!

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This Thursday kicks off the 127 Corridor Sale, otherwise known as The World’s Longest Yard Sale. What started in 1987 as a way to get people off the highways and onto the back roads of Tennessee and Kentucky is now a 654 mile phenomenon. Starting in Gadsden, Alabama the yard sale winds its way up to Chattanooga, TN (with a brief trip through Georgia) up to Jamestown, TN (the Headquarters of the 127 sale) and continues up through Kentucky, onto Cincinnati, OH and ending in Northwest Ohio. With so much to see and buy, its impossible to cover the entire route over the 4 days of the sale. And even worse, the blog team only has ONE DAY to see as much as we can!

Update 2: We’ll be live blogging over here all day.

Update 1: The blog team just posted our wishlists for the roadtrip this morning.

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One of the best things about working for HGTV is knowing that we inspire people everyday.  It gets even better when we see what happens when people get inspired to create their own masterpieces.  Check out this great weekend project from a mom of 4 kids who goes by Jennwa, that was inspired after watching an episode of Color Splash with David Bromstad.

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We love it when we see stuff like this! Check out this exclusive video from HGTV’s $250k Challenge where David shows you how to make your own original painting.

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Sadly, this is the last week of our Friday Freebies. I want to thank everyone who’s commented over the past 4 weeks. I also want to congratulate Jennifer Perez who won last week’s set of Blue Wave candle holders with a very touching moment she shared with us about her father. I also want to thank the folks at PartyLite for hooking us up with some great stuff for the past month, and boy did we save the best for the last.

This week we’re going back outside to go out with a bang! Check out PartyLite’s Linear Lites Collection. The new Linear Lites 3-wick holder, a dazzling centerpiece with a glass cylinder insert to protect candle flame when used outside. Along with that, we’ve got 3 Linear Lites Pillar Holders in three sizes (14 ½” short, 16 ¼” medium and 18″ tall) and a Linear Lites Votive Pair for votives and tealights. And of course, don’t forget the candles: one Petite 3-Wick 3×5″ , one dozen votives , and another dozen tealights! All in Citrus Bloom Citronella scent, a tangy and surprising Citronella oil from fragrant Asian grasses combined with the tangy scent of citrus blossoms. A great fragrance for outdoor entertaining.

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Total package Worth: $270

All you have to do is answer this week’s question in the comments below with a valid email address before Monday Night @ Midnight Eastern. We’ll pick a random winner from all of our comments. Its that simple!

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We’re down to our 2nd to last Giveaway from our friends at PartyLite.  Last week’s Coast Lights set went out to Kelly G. with her answer:

The things in my house I am most proud of are the ultrasound photos I had framed after having my children. I was able to pick out some pretty, stylish mats and frames, and they are very cool, personal, and fun conversation starters!

This week we’ve got a set of 3 PartyLite Blue Waves Candle Holder with a box of tealights to go with them.

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Its Friday Freebies time!  This week we move indoors and the crew at Partylite came to us with another awesome set.  Check out their Coast Lights collection featuring the PartyLite Coastal Lights Hurricane.  This new twist on the nautical look will add a sophisticated flair to any home. Craftsmanship and style take center stage and define this one-of-a-kind, hand-blown glass hurricane.  Inside the Hurrican is Partylite’s Round Mottled Layered Pillar in Seaside Mist.  But that’s not all! Partylite has been just as excited as our blog readers over Friday Freebies they’re also providing one lucky winner with the Coast Lights Oyster Shell, Coastal Lights Nautilus Shell, and a dozen Calm Waters tealights to go with it all.

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All you have to do is comment on this week’s question with a valid email address before Monday Night @ Midnight Eastern.  We’ll pick a random winner from all of our comments. Its that simple!

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