Halloween Tips

Some good halloween tips here. http://www.geocities.com/~uncialle/tipspagea.html

The Addams Family

Intro to the original Adams Family at youtube.

This Is Halloween

Opening song from The Nightmare Before Christmas via YouTube

You really must see the whole thing if you haven't already.

Meat Worms

Gross, edible, giant grave worm recipe. There are lots of good recipes on this site.
http://imakeprojects.com/content/view/43/1/

Recycled Tote Bag

Recycled plastic bag shopping tote instructions

Worms

Edible meat worm. Very creepy.

http://imakeprojects.com/content/view/43/1/

More Creepy Food

Some really good, very realistic, creepy food recipes here.
http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/halloween-supper/

Kittly Alarm Clock

Cute little cartoon about cats as alarm clocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh-jSSCB6k

Halloween Hat and scarf

Great Halloween hat and scarf. Some instructions and another link to the crochet eyeballs
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=197692.0

Halloween.net

These are all from http://www.1halloween.net/, a large site with lots of great stuff. I've marked my favorites here for future reference.

Halloween recipes. The eyeballs and the pumpkin balls sound good.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/rsnacks.html

Pumkin cake and spider cake

http://www.1halloween.net/html/rcake.html

I like the tootsie pops and the icecream cone surprises. I think it might work well to use the wafer type pointed cones and make witches hats.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/rcandy.html

I like the bat cookies (of course) and the R.I.P. cupcake

http://www.1halloween.net/html/rcookies.html

Some decorating ideas here. The helium balloon idea might be good behind one of those thin, frosted type bathroom curtains. I like the psycho idea too.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/rcookies.html

More decorations. I love the glowing table with the fan underneath and the masks in jars.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/didinerm.html

Expanding on the R.I.P. doormat it would be fun to make gravestones out of them with names and dates. A bunch of those cheap foam ones might work

http://www.1halloween.net/html/didormat.html

Little glow sticks on helium balloons outside and scary eyes in the bushes

http://www.1halloween.net/html/dilights.html

Cute witch crashed into a tree. I love it that she was reading Harry Potter

http://www.1halloween.net/html/garcrash.html

The jokes are cute and I haven't heard a lot of them.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/jokes.html

Funny photos. The last one's a hoot.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/jokphoto.html

Oh dear.

http://www.1halloween.net/html/jokpumps.html

Ick

Very realistic wounds and instructions on how to make them.http://www.makezine.com/
blog/archive/2006/10/halloween_lacer.html

Random Obituary Generator

Type in a name and the generator will spit out a humerous obituary for you.
http://www.crucifictiongames.com/rogd.html

Ravensblight Toy Shop

Ravensblight Toy Shop.
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
Printale parts and instructions for various creepy paper toys, perfect for Halloween. These are great. I haven't tried any of them yet but they look fantastic. I'm definitely starting with the bat, Bela.

Tim Burton's Vincent

I found this while I was looking at the Christopher Walken cooking video. I'll have to remember it for Halloween. Very cute.

Unfortunately I can't hear the piece of music that is played at the beginning and end with out mentally singing along, the only words I can remember: "There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants!"

Fake Blood Recipes

Fake Blood Recipes at Halloween Web.

http://www.halloween-website.com/fake_blood.htm

Life Masks

Here are directions on how to do life masks. This would be great to do with the girls.
http://www.rondalarue.com/PAGES/MASK%20PAGES/how.html

Squelette Dance

Halloween is coming. Squelette Dance. Very cool. Try checking the different boxes. Mutation-X is especially bizarre. Enjoy and Happy Halloween.

Dog Park Slide Show

Life Just Does Not Get Any Better

I Reeeally Want A Prairie Dog Of My Very Own

Off Leash Open Space

Bosco learned to swim last week so I had to bring my camera today and take pictures. This is the best dog park.
It's like an amusement park for dogs. Prairie dogs, swimming hole, miles of trails, lots of other dogs, friendly people, coyote scat to sniff. Paradise. We saw a coyote there the first day, at least I did, I think Bosco was otherwise occupied.
I took over 400 pictures today. I think I got 20 or 30 good photos out of that. I love my digital camera., the burst feature is the best.

Hell Hole

Hell Hole
A small hole in the ground that looks like it's surrounded by lava. The hole emits red light & smoke. It can also be rigged with screams.
http://softlyspokenmagicspells.com/halloween/hellmouth.html

Light Up Dog Collars

Cool led light up collars for dogs.
http://www.visiglo.com/vglowcollars.htm

Skeletal Flamingos

Here's a site that sells skeletal flamigos for your lawn.
http://www.flamingopinkinc.com/consumers.htm

Halloween Prop How-Tos

Tons and tons of links to halloween projects. Most are over my head but still fun to look at.
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/

Swim meet

I got some great pictures of Sarah at her swim meet yesterday, then I stayed up till 4 in the morning playing around with the google picasa program. Sweet stuff. They were swimming the short lengths in the pool so I could get some good photos across the pool with my telephoto.

Witches Fingers and Eyeballs

Britta.com has some really great looking Halloween recipes. Edible, gelatin eyeballs that really look creepy and Witches Fingers (also very creepy).
Also 2 recipes for Harry Potter Butter Beer, one alcoholic and one not.
http://www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html

Creepy Ladies/Witches Fingers

Here is another recipe for Halloween ladies fingers from Martha Stewart via Not Martha. These are more like pretzels than cookies & look even creepier than the cookie ones.

Cute Jeep Commercial

I'm not sure why but I love this Jeep commercial. It kind of gets hung up and jerky but if you double click on it TWICE, it will take you to the youtube display and it's better quality there.

This one from last year is way cute too.

Murals

Site with lots of hints and information on painting murals
http://www.littlemonkeymurals.com/indexLMM.htm

Don't Be Buried Alive

Very creepy real life grave.
http://www.vermonter.com/evergreen.asp

Ghost Droppings

Halloween stuff. Love the name.
http://www.ghostdroppings.com/

AskMeFi Recipes

Here is a AskMeFi thread with a bunch of recipes I'd like to try.
http://ask.metafilter.com/73283/Help-me-find-a-recipe-to-knock-peoples-socks-off

Bleeding Halloween Portrait

How to make a continuously bleeding portrait.

http://usersites.horrorfind.com
/home/halloween/chrisscrypt/bleed_portrait.html

Halloween Vacancy Tombstone

Directions for a tombstone that flashes "Vacancy" on and off like a motel sign. Another one I could probably do and when you go to the site the cursor is a little flock of flying bats. Perfect.

http://brunell.hostrocket.com/halloween/vacancy.htm

Mechanical Bat Toy

I found this very, very cool mechanical paper bat toy via The Automata / Automaton Blog, www.dugnorth.com.

A whole printable kit for a flapping bat on a tombstone at ravensblight.com. 2 files, one for the parts, that you print out on card stock, and one for the directions. The bat's name is Bela.
There is also a video of his wonderful Halloween hat on his blog. Looks like there is a lot of great stuff here. I can tell I'll be exploring this site for awhile. Will report back later.

Goblinville

Goblinville is a great Halloween website.
Goblinville.
I found it while searching for the words and tune to The Worm Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out.... They have them there along with lots of animated clip art and other good things too.
I know there is, somewhere out there, a good recipe for witches fingers. Those candy skulls would be fun too. I'll post those when I have a link for them.

Extreme Pumpkins

I'm trying to post something Halloween related every day in October. I've already missed the first 2 days. Oh well, here goes.
Extreme Pumpkins. Taking Pumpkin carving to a whole new level.

Spanish Language Soap Opera

I've read about this before and it sounded interesting. It's a soap opera designed to help you learn Spanish. I just found a website for it with videos of the program to watch, small format but free, always an attractive feature.
It's called Destinos. I'm going to try to watch one a week or one a day or whatever seems productive once I start. There are 52 of them and they are 1/2 an hour long. I'm hoping this way I will at least begin to understand Spanish somewhat which should help the problem I had with trying to learn it off of tapes. I could speak some but I really couldn't understand it. This won't give me any practice speaking it but, hey, one step at a time.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html?pop=yes&vodid=392886&pid=366#

The Myers-Briggs Personality Survey Updated

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The Myers-Briggs Personality Survey Updated.
http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html
Tongue in cheek descriptions of the 16 personality typers.

Not For Children Picture Books

Deanna Molinaro's Not For Children Books.

http://www.deannamolinaro.com/Stuff_That_I_Made/Books/BookTitles.html
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These remind me a bit of Edward Gorey's books. I love the last page on the Sea Monster book.