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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)

I Got A Rock, from Crafting with Cat Hair. A Charlie Brown Halloween homage!

List of Halloween themed beers at The Art of Darkness.

No-effort kids costumes ideas at Parent Hacks

Giant Head Horror Mask, with instructable.

LED Ghosties from The Evil Mad Scientist Labs – How To!

Monogrammed Pumpkins via Whip Up

Funky Finds has another Roundup!

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

And she even features Dabbled in her latest halloween roundup!

Other great stuff from Dabbled readers:

Jack Skellington Mosaic by Red Squirrel Mosaics. All her mosaics are really pretty, but who couldn’t love Jack!?

Jenna Z has a great flickr set of halloween costumes (including dog costumes) she’s made for past halloweens…

Oh, and check out collection of halloween projects discovered by Funky Finds. I especially love the typewriter key jewelry by Webby Sue and Jack the Undead Monkey by The Cuddle Shop

Remember, if you have pictures of cool artsy craftsy stuff you’ve done that’s on flickr, be sure to add it to the newly revived (and I promise will be no longer neglected!) Dabbled flickr pool :)

Featured on the Dabbled Halloween Extravaganza? Don’t forget to grab a nifty button! Just cut and paste the text below (you can also modify the link to go directly to where you were featured, if ya like):

More buttons for linking to the Halloween Contest are here! Don’t forget, if you link to the halloween contest, and the winner comes from your readers, you’ll win a prize too — so tell them to say they found us through you!

Chica & Jo, one of the sponsors of the Dabbled Halloween Contest, have a clever idea around making eerie eyeball snacks using a paint pallet as a mold. (And they’ve also featured Dabbled’s Ele-purse as their friday feature today–thanks, guys!)

More great stuff from Resurrection Fern! A tutorial on making a cool lantern out of a rutabaga! I wouldn’t EAT one, so this would be a good thing to do with one…

Instructables is having a DIY Halloween contest. So, if you’re entering the Dabbled Halloween Contest, make your entry an Instructable and enter their contest too! Instructables is in general a great place for halloween inspirations, so check it out.

Tip Junkie has a nice roundup of various halloween tutorials & DIY ideas.

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Featured on the Dabbled Halloween Extravaganza? Show your pride with a nifty button! Just cut and paste the text below (you can also modify the link to go directly to where you were featured, if ya like):

A tutorial on this making this Cinderella Pumpkin is at Resurrection Fern. Cute!

Martha, of course

Paper Pumpkins from Hostess with the Mostest

Crafting with Cat Hair — Halloween Tea Set

Tooth Earrings! via Craft

Halloween Bottle Brush Trees spotted on Whip Up. Here’s the original with the tutorial.

From Make: Instructable: Cast your face in plaster… This has definite decoration possibilities!

For Karen: Yes! It’s a Bacon Tiara. via Craft

From the Instructables Blog: Instructables on Halloween Costumes – Wow!

Pom Pom Pumpkins – Tutorial Tuesday on Indie Fixx

oh, and if you missed it, check out the interview with Hello Naomi, the latest in the Interviews series.

Get your halloween buttons here, including I WAS FEATURED if you’re featured as part of the halloween series.

Related: All Halloween Topics

Enter the Halloween Contest:

The lovely ladies at They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara have some of the creepiest cakes ever. This Thorax Cavity Cake really ‘takes the cake’! The rib cage is white chocolate, and each of the organs is a goo filled yummy cake–all different gourmet flavors. Full instructions on how to make this ultimate in “gross your dinner guests out” halloween cakes can be found on their site. Also, even if you’re not into “gruesome” as a theme, their techniques can be used on various sorts of cakes. I found several useful tips.

I actually think i like it better without the blood:

Also, check out the Zombie Cake (the second page has some great white chocolate covered cherry eyeballs with instructions, on our previous eyeball theme); and for the less cooking inclined, check out some nice pumpkin carving ideas!

Thanks to:
Inspired by yesterday’s Eyeball Soup cake, Heather recommended a link to this site!

Get your halloween buttons here, including I WAS FEATURED if you’re featured as part of the halloween series.

Related: All Halloween Topics

Enter the Halloween Contest:

Says Robyn: “Wanting an adorable hat to donate to my local NICU ward, I came up with this most basic of patterns. Sized for preemies and babes, you can make it even smaller by using tinier needles. There’s no real gauge, because as the NICU nurses I love so dearly have said over and over, these gorgeous babes come in all sizes!” What a sweet idea for anytime of the year! Go knitters!

Head over to Craft & Found for a free pattern!

Thanks for sharing, Robyn! So sweet of you to make to give away, and to share with us! Don’t forget to pick up your I WAS FEATURED button!

The rest of you… Don’t forget:

…Spread the word, because if the winner found the contest via you/your blog, you’ll win a prize too! Get your Halloween button here!

First off… the Halloween Jack! Fabulous design and execution.. love him!

Next up, check this out! Now you know creating great art or craft out of recycled materials is one of my passions… This is a great example of that, created out of paper towel rolls. She’s got all the instructions on her post. Check out the full post for nifty luminaries and candy containers too!

Several of her other posts to check out for halloween inspiration ideas:
– Candy Bottles
– All kinds of containers, decorated with stamps. Love the votive idea :)

Finally… this was just too cute…
Inspired by the very talented Creative Kismet, a monster towel… perfect your little monster for halloween or all year long! This is Heather’s version:

And here is the original Rock Monster inspiration:

Thanks for sharing, Heather!! This is some great inspiring stuff…
and don’t forget to pick up your I WAS FEATURED button! Oh, and you too Creative Kismet!

The rest of you… Don’t forget: