I wouldn't normally do this but since I'm very nearly an aunt I'm finding the Old Navy newborn halloween costumes and hats to be really adorable. If the kid were here in time for Halloween you'd better believe he'd be the proud owner of a monster cap. And um dog costumes aren't bad either.

Yay! Pisces Catalog boooique and Pisces Soap boootique! I like the bat love t shirt and the rag hag undies - and the madame zelda soaps and the satan soaps. know of any super special halloween themed shops?

It would seem so obvious - oilcloth.com. They have nice samples - I like the forks. You can't buy from this site, but it looks like reprodepot fabrics sells this line on their oilcloth page.

Tops Malibu has something new - ice lights which would work well for a halloween punch bowl

Plum Party has up a nifty halloween section, I love this little bat

castles, haunted houses and scary places some reading I've been doing this afternoon

• franklin castle is a haunted castle in my hometown
• squire's castle is now part of the park system my mom works for. the actual history is tame but the stories surrounding it are creepy.
• danvers mental hospital a large structure with a lot of history, the setting of and inspiration for the film session 9, which I highly recommend
• modern ruins photo essays amazing photographs of abandonded buildings and ruins
• links to a variety of castles, structures, tunnels and ruins

Know of sites about castles, haunted houses or creepy spots?

what i'm doing

• turning a pair of perfectly good but slightly too small jeans into a skirt
• making an imitation of this bag out of some lovely red corduroy
• starting a denim picnic blanket from Scott's old jeans - with a snap-on waterproof bottom layer
• actually writing about making salt scrub
• pumpkin gingerbread muffins
• teensy Osgood pies
• new photographs for the surprise ball project
• trying out the Martha small paper mache jack-o-lantern candy balls

pixiechick writes about devil pods at the Autumn Moon Festival and using them for part of a Halloween costume