They dress themselves. This year, Charley dressed up as a piece of clean laundry, and Sami dressed up as an idiot.

(YouTube link)

Otto Dieffenbach says,

I was asked to build a Man on a Broom for a British TV show so I started cutting Depron. He is a great flyer but a difficult build. I will be posting a build log in rcgroups.com.

Read how he built it at RC Groups. Link -via Tastefully Offensive

Olivia Mears was invited to an internet-themed costume party, so she dressed as Imgur, the image hosting website. Upvote!

What would a Neatorama dress look like?

Link -via Ian Brooks

How do you turn cake mix into a tasty Halloween treat? Add in some cream cheese and butter along with green food coloring and eyeball candies and Bam! Now you have delicious Ooey Gooey Monster Eye Cookies.

Link

These kicks are some of the sweetest Nightmare Before Christmas shoes I've ever seen. That's even more the case because they are totally custom painted by DeviantArt user 13LeeLee.

Link

Want to be a hobbit for Halloween this year? Then you'll need to learn how to make your own hobbit feet since you can't just just run around barefoot all night. DeviantArt user deeed uploaded this great tutorial to make your own out of funny feet and slip on shoes.

Link

Visual Anatomy Limited offers medical illustrations and chocolate. While those two businesses don't appear to really mesh, the chocolates come in the shapes of bodily organs. You can get chocolates brains, hearts, livers, colons, ears, eyes, skulls, pelvis bones, pancreas, kidneys, or other organs, in small or large sizes, or in assorted gift boxes. Some are even available on a stick! Link -via Laughing Squid

No, the slime-tini isn't really poison. In fact, with tripel sec, vodka, sour apple Pucker and grenadine, it's probably pretty tasty. But a few too many of these bad boys will certainly leave you feeling like you drank poison when you wake up the next morning.

Link

Now for something truly scary, from Carl theWAREHOUSE guy: Spam-O-Lantern - Thanks Carl!

How much candy can you get in a pillowcase? The short answer is: almost 48 pounds. This post also explains the measurement, and lays out a strategy for actually getting that much candy during trick-or-treat. According to the conclusions, everyone who reads this article will be showing up at my house Friday evening. Link -Thanks, ebez!

Looking to do something a little different with your pumpkin this year? Consider following the instructions on the Better Homes and Gardens website to make a great mummy pumpkin like this. Be sure to include eyes like the black marbles used in the picture though or else it might just look like it's been sliced up one too many times.

Link

Photo: penner42 [Flickr]

Now here's a truly scary Halloween pumpkin - at least for all you geeky Xbox 360 gamers anyhow. Behold the Red Ring of Death pumpkin, made by Alan Penner of Geek and Proud blog! Notice the winking emoticon mocking your hardware failure ...

Link - via Apartment Therapy Unplugged

I love to see ever narrower and narrower examples of niche blogging. Here is a timely one: Sweet Candy Corn, a blog about nothing but the Halloween candy everyone either loves or hates. Remember, National Candy Corn Day is October 30th! Link -Thanks, Rob Williams!

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making simple ghost decorations with cool LED eyes!

You can make these simple LED ghosties (based on LED throwies) from a soda bottle, a couple of LEDs and batteries, string, and a scrap of fabric. Hang them in your trees, your haunted house, or in your porch for Halloween. They look especially excellent because the eyes seem to float in mid-air behind the fabric.

Link

We're almost to autumn, and this year is the 75th anniversary of the movie The Wizard of Oz, so let's celebrate with scarecrows! Learn to draw a cute little scarecrow with a simple tutorial from mark Anderson at Andertoons. Link