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Here’s lookin’ at you kid, originally uploaded by Creative Kismet.

PS: Another thing I’ve been meaning to link to – Samae at A Milf For All Seasons is one of the funniest mommy-blog true life writers I know… this one on basement renovation is particular fun!

All Halloween Here

More Halloween Features

Don’t forget…
a Dabbled Halloween Contest ends next Wednesday! Just a few more days…
All crafts, art, food Halloween related is eligible… And bloggers, if the winner finds us from your blog, you’ll win a prize too! Enter the contest or see the current entries HERE:

And Thanks to Tip Junkie for featuring some of my Halloween Food (Flayed Skin Cheeseball & Creepy Eyeball Apps and Desserts)

Linky Goodness:
SwellDesigner has some really cool vintage inspired Halloween Ornaments, with tutorial. Neato! And lots of other cool halloween links over there too — check out her Terrorific Tuesday…

Superpunch has a great roundup of Halloween Related Food (includes some you’ve seen here, actually, but even more. Including these adorable monster cupcakes by My Little Mochi

Check out these skull knitted tea-cosies on Whip Up.

Stollaween has some very cool looking papier mache pumpkins, incredible looking, and they have instructions to make your own.. (via craft)

Parenthacks has their Best of Halloween hacks. good stuff.

Oh, and One Pretty Thing has 2 new Halloween Roundups!

And the Evil Mad Scientists have a roundup of projects from halloweens past. check out the bat costume from an umbrella and the many cool geeky pumpkins.

A Dabbled Halloween, Thus Far

The Halloween Contest:

Go check out the items entered thus far in the comments. Great Stuff! Think you can do better? Get to work, just 2 more weeks! Have you been featured, or are you entering the contest? Or do you just want to get the word out? Get your Halloween button here!

Oh, and check out our cool sponsors and the prizes they are offering…

Dabbled Tutorial: Making a Monster Wreath

All Halloween Food, including:
Halloween Eyeballs
Halloween Flayed Skin Cheeseball
and more!

Check out the very creative Halloween Features.

I might have missed something, including inspirational links like these above, so for All Halloween Posts: Click Here

Halloween Extravaganza update:
Will post the Sponsors & Prizes for the halloween contest later today. If anyone else is interested in donating a prize for the contest, let me know asap so I can include your site in the initial writeup.

I’m looking for Costume Creations for a Halloween Feature next week. If you have pics of past costumes you created that we might want to feature, email me dot [at] dabbled {dot} org.

If you missed the 2 this week, you can view our “Halloween Feature” Dabblers here… Check out the cool & spooky creativity!

Entering the Contest? Show your pride with a nifty button! Just cut and paste the text below:

Randomness:
Because life and Dabbled can’t be all about Halloween.

It’s been a pretty productive week. Bought all next season’s clothes for the Boy at one of those huge consignment sales last night. And little tiny Keens. And a $6 scooter that he’s already in love with. Thrift store shopping yesterday yielded the required elements for my halloween costume (planning ahead!) and several other interesting items. Several new bags of fiberfill (maybe i’ll get around to the stuffed robot next week), an interesting old tray, a turquoise wool sweater to shrink, some metal decorative wall art that the hubby has decided to turn into a fireplace screen, and more stuff. Anyone ever used those bread mold tubes? I got two Pampered Chef ones for $3. Not really sure how they work! A pretty good haul of loot.

Made a lot of progress on the sketches for my book project this week too. It’s funny how inspiration comes in spurts. Now if i can just get inspired with this week’s Illo Friday theme.. “Clique”. Hmmmm… What should I do with that?

And at some point our snake has escaped her cage, so I guess I’d better go look for her again..

Here’s the official rules for the Halloween Extravaganza Contest:

The Rules: Your entry can be art, craft, or food. For Halloween, this includes Costume and Decoration ideas as well.

Post a link to your entry preferably IN THIS THREAD (or you can email it to me). Entry should include a link to the item. You can link to a blog, website or etsy, or flickr pictures. Post pictures, and extra credit for instructions or recipes

Judges are still in the works, i’ll update this post with the info. If you’re a past winner, and are not participating this time, you’re eligible to be a Judge – email me. Also Sponsors are eligible.

Deadline: WED OCT 29!

Prizes: Fame! Fortune! Well, a tad of fame, anyway! There will be prizes, including a link over to your blog for the coolest submissions. Prizes will include several donated prizes by our Sponsors, plus custom artwork. Also you’ll receive a nifty “I Won” button for your site!

Other details:
– you can enter as many items as you want, but you can only win with one entry.
– post each entry in a different comment, please.
– If you’re featured during the Halloween Features, you’ll still need to enter on this post with whichever items you are entering.
– I’ll update this more later with the Sponsor info.
– If you use flickr, please add your item to the Dabbled flickr pool too! (The pool is http://www.flickr.com/groups/dabbled/ , but still link it here if you want it counted.)

Happy Halloweening!

PS: Check out here for all the other ways to participate in the Halloween Extravaganza.
– Be a Sponsor by donating a prize! Thanks to our sponsors: Some Art Fabric, Erin K Creations, & Chica and Jo. Read all about them here!
– Link over to the contest on your blog and if the winner found us through your site, you’ll win a prize too!
– Be a Halloween Featured guest! Like these Dabblers!

Get your Halloween button here!

Related:
Prizes and Sponsors, check ’em out!