A search at Williams Sonoma for "chocolate egg" turned up a bunch of tempting candy (but, alas, not what I was looking for). My favorites are the Italian hard candies (colorful! shiny!), these gorgeous marshmallows, and sugarplums! And licorice scottie dogs and pretty lollipops (some are clove flavored!) and good old fashioned candy. You can even get monogrammed candy boxes, wow.

i troll martha stewart so you don't have to

• picnic tablecloth
• cat hammock
• kitchen laundry bag

(did a search for grommets and found these) and I really like martha's halloween marshmallow kit so:

• make your own marshmallows
• make marshmallow chicks (or ghosts perhaps? or mice? rats? spiders? pumpkins?)
• s'mores gift basket!
• s'mores square cookies

recipe! Miss Vicki's Spicy Thai Noodle Recipe from unoccupied's mom (thank you)

a while back girlwonder wrote about not being able to take her knitting needles on her flight, today she points us to this article about the troubles people are having taking their hobby with them - my favorite part: "Look! The woman in 3B has knitting needles! Let's get her!"

tea 101 for those of us who always wanted to know but were too intimidated to ask (those tea lovers can get hyper) - over at digs magazine

how lovely! Loobylu writes about plans for her garden plot including an herb spiral - which is terrific and something completely new to me

look! new graphic header! and look! I actually got some holiday favors made before the holiday they are intended for - crepe paper pumpkin favors - I took a lot of pictures because I love orange!

something to keep around for winter holidays: very beautifully detailed Christmas histories by Maria Hubert warning: I'm getting an incredibly annoying "plugin did not initialize" message, I'm assuming there is some mini christmas music in the page or some such nonsense, you have been fairly told

picked from the get crafty boards - really cool container store: binz containers

halloween costume anxiety over at digs magazine

one for the bacon log - news from all day brekkie: A secret report from The Worldwide Fund for Vegetarians was leaked today, and stated that "Bacon is the overwhelming factor in the demise of vegetarianism worldwide." Take a lookie at all day brekkie, you can make a breakfastlicious desktop! link graciously stolen from unnoccupied

I bought some Mr. Bubble the other day and perhaps I'm using more than I'm supposed to, but wow! bubblicious! And they didn't all pop after a few minutes, even when you pile them on your head and forget they are there. It also didn't irritate my oh-so-sensitive skin, which I was very happy about. I wish this Mr. Bubble Bath Powder were unscented so I could use it in making solid bubble bath with yummy scents. Now, if only Mr. Bubble made scents like Lush. Or Lush made tremendous bubbles.