Watercooler: Halloween Hot Links Edition

Halloween Links

• Free Halloween Recipes Cookbook
• Free Halloween Crafts, Coloring Pages & Projects
• Scary Halloween Treats from Nessa’s Kitchen
• Creepy Halloween food recipes are some of our favorites, and here’s a new recipe:  Apple Bites.
• More scary Halloween food recipes.
• Kid friendly Halloween decorations that are fun to make and look at!
• Free printable pumpkin carving stencils.
• How to decorate a pumpkin in less than 30 minutes.
• A good way to move Halloween costumes out of your house so they don’t become clutter is to use eBay, Kijiji, your local consignment shop, newspaper classifieds, or Craigslist to sell or trade them.  You can even donate old costumes to your church for their plays or trunk or treat event next year.
• Facebook users can play the Trick or Treat Me app that allows users to send cute trick or treat gifts to friends and family.
• Cellufun has downloadable Halloween games for cell phones.  You can  gives dress up your avatar, go trick-or-treating, pick pumpkins, or carve jack-o-lanterns. Check out their Hallofun games here. 

Hot Blogs & Websites This Week

•  The Green Team from eBay offers green tips for reusing and repurposing items.

Contests

• Care.com has a contest going in November to celebrate National Family Caregiver Month. They need stories about people who go above and beyond to care for the people they love or work for.  You can nominate your hero on their Facebook page for their chance to win a $500 prize pack!

Twitter Parties

• Pete Bils is hosting a Twitter party on Monday, 11-2-09 from 4:00-6:00 CT to talk about sleep, immunity, and swine flu. Tweet @SleepGeekPete to ask questions or use the #SleepGeek hashtag.

News

• October is National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) awareness month.  While there are many tips thought to reduce the risk factors of SIDS, a study last fall by the Archives of Pediatrics found that the use of a fan might help lower the risk by 72%.  Thanks to Hunter Fans for sending us the heads up on this potentially life-saving survey.

Do you have something new or noteworthy that you’d like mentioned in The Watercooler? Let us know at tips(at)HomeEverAfter.com.

Danelle

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