• Dark Chocolate Martini via Cook & Eat

• Flayed Skin Cheeseball via Dabbled

• Eyeball Caprese via Evil Mad Scientist

• Nobody does cocktails like Martha. Check out her Ghosts in the Graveyard (and other drinks). Black vodka–does it taste like licorice? If not, I’m in.

Don’t forget! The Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival will be taking over my blog next week! You can join the fun over at Bloggy Giveaways!

• Cute CD Cupcake Stand
• Halloween Cup Labels
• Modern Take on Vintage Halloween Decor
• Spooktastic Halloween Pennants
• Vintage Black Cat Pendant

• Zombie Garden Sculpture via BoingBoing. Is it just me, or does this look a bit like Matt Damon?

• Zombie Boy via Bizarre Magazine. Wow. There is crazy, and then there is the abyss. Beware of Ninja Turtles.

• Retro Halloween Templates via Matthew Mead Style. This guy is the male version of Martha. He has some great ideas.

• Plaster mummy hand tutorial via Daily Danny. Who doesn’t need a few of these lying around the house in October?

• Cool plate craft for Halloween via Design Mom. Gabrielle is the woman. Seriously. She has so much style it floats around her like a silver mist.

• Germ-Free Baby Under Glass via BoingBoing (they’re on a roll, what can I say?). It’s a baby, not a fossil. My favorite quote: "It is partially sound-proof-he can bellow without straining the family nerves."

• WHO Warns Against Use of Electronic Cigarettes via Yahoo! Filed under S for Serious Loser. Really? You need to suck on something toxic so bad you’ll buy these? Darwin called. You’re not the fittest.

• Genealogy Relationship Chart via About.com. I think one of my readers pointed me to this, but I can’t remember who. I had the link and I love it. Now I know what to call my cousin’s two boys: first cousins once removed and they are second cousins to my kids.

• Very cute craft: Paper Fortune Cookies! via For the Love of Paper. This is a great idea that doesn’t look too hard for me.

Kimya Dawson’s children’s album, Alphabutt via BoingBoing. Anyone else LOVE the Juno soundtrack? I’m betting you’ll love this CD too if you have kids. Scattalogical humor at its finest.

• Alzheimer’s patients wait for a bus that’s not coming via Telegraph (UK). Does this fall under "Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind"?

• Time-Warp Wives via MailOnline. OK, I’ll admit that I luh-huv the idea of the 30s and 50s. Maybe even the 20s. But I know it’s my own Romanticized version of those times and it’s not real. It wasn’t necessarily all Charleston and Flappers, malt shops and poodle skirts, or even Our Gang kids. Now if these women were doing it for fashion reasons, I’d be all over it. (Although, I really wanna know: Does that red-head have a bald spot? WHAT IS WITH THE FLOWERS?)

• How to make a pop-up photograph via WikiHOW. You know, in case you have too much time on your hands.

• Cool modular refrigerators via BoingBoing. Now you can keep track of your own orange soda.

• Papercraft Mario Hat via BoingBoing.

• Retro-looking Double Timers via Uncommon Goods. I want one of these!

• Havana: Then and Now. Amazing how much it’s stayed the same.

• StitchMinder App for iPhone via not martha. One more reason I need an iPhone.

• Made In Queens (an independent film). Tunes are important, people.

• BONUS LINK: Squirrel Melts by The Huntress, Heidi Wilson. Now you know what to make for that football party you’re hosting on Sunday.

• Some very cool designs for your computer desktop via PushMePullYou.

• Who says humans aren’t resourceful? Look at these wooden bikes!

• I love towel and sheet sculptures when I’m on vacation (via BoingBoing).

• I want an invisibility cloak. Can you even imagine? Science is so cool.

• Rakku Shoe Wheel via GoodyBlog.com. This is plain cool. I need two for me and one for Chilihead, Jr.

• Sticky Notebooks via greetingarts. My kids love sticky notes. Sticky notes that are personalized in their own little package? SCORE! A craft project to boot. Double SCORE!

• I think I must tour Tokyo Disney NOW. This is the Pirates of the Carribean souvenir I want. Via Boing Boing.

• Wow. We’ve come a long way with our crazy technology–bracelets that identify mom and babe instead of branding the baby. Via ModernMechanix.

• Is it me or does this family seem to act like this is no big deal? Cheating the Claw Game via haha.nu. I would be flipping out: partly because I’d be worried my kid couldn’t get out and partly because I’d be so mad at my kid for getting in.

• For all you breast-feeders out there. Now you can do something with your liquid gold once the babe stops nursing: Jewelry Created from Plasticized Human Milk via Core77.

• This is hilarious. I mean, crying, pee-your-pants hilarious. To me. Which is a huge caveat. A boy-band singing about scientific equipment. That’s hot.

• In the category of Too Much Time On My Hands, Judith G. Klausner wins the gold via Boing Boing.

• These WWI maps are amazing (via Bibliodyssey).

• Body Modification: Elf Ears via Instructables. Ouch. Seriously. OUCH! I think the Dollar Store sells elf ears seasonally. I think I’d rather just stock up there.

• Cake Wrecks. This site is awesome. You won’t believe some of the cakes made. For instance, I love the No Sexual Harrassment cake and couldn’t believe the GTA cake for a 4-year-old. Who does that?

• Re-purposing your old crayons via Daily Danny. Very cool and I think your kids would love it.