Have a safe and fun Halloween, everyone! And, if you need any last minute decorations, tags, or treat boxes, don’t forget to check out the Paper Crave Halloween printables. Here’s to many treats…and maybe a few tricks, too!

The lovely photo above is from Flickr user Super*Junk. Check out more of this amazing (and miniature!) vintage Halloween display here.

Update: You can download the fantastic mini vintage decorations featured in Super*Junk’s Halloween photos here. Yay for printables!

Oh. My. Wow. It’s pretty well established here that I love papercuts (a.k.a. scherenschnitte), and I’m simply blown away by the work of Elsa Mora, whose work can be seen on her blog, The Heart of Papercuts.

In addition to being a showcase for her gorgeous paper creations, the blog also serves as a treasure of papercutting resources, including links to other artists, organizations, tutorials, shops, supplies. If you enjoy scherenschnitte, then this is the place to go!

images from Elsa Mora

Check out this super clever tutorial from Cheeky Magpie about creating a pumpkin decoration from a book. What a great way to recycle old books, and what a fun seasonal decoration. Just think of all of the possibilities for other holidays! via Craftzine

Psst…while you’re visiting, you’ll want to check out the jointed Scaredy Cat Halloween decoration, too.

image from Cheeky Magpie

The Small Object really has it going on with clever recipe-related creations! I mentioned the cute recipe writing stamp set back in August, and I just spotted these nifty recipe review post-it notes over on her blog. As someone who has cookbooks and recipes all over, I can really appreciate the need for a review system like this to keep track of what you tried and liked and what you tried and never want to try again.

images from The Small Object

I’m completely taken with these Magical Notebooks from Genova, Italy based Celestefrittata that I spotted over on Poppytalk today. Each handbound book is the size of a moleskine, and the covers feature original drawings by Elena Torre, screen printed with a Gocco. The edges of the notebook pages are actually torn by hand, and the covers are “aged” with a black inkpad. Amazing…and magical, indeed!

images from Celestefrittata

I’m a big fan of anything from The Black Apple, and I’m squeeing over The Ordinary Forest postcard sampler set, which features 11 reproductions of Black Apple paintings. This set would make a wonderful stocking stuffer, but be sure that you know your limitations and buy two sets if you know that you’ll be too tempted to play keepsies if you only buy one set. Hey, we all need to regularly add to our paper stashes, right?

Speaking of adding to our paper stashes, you’ll want to head over to the Inside A Black Apple blog and download the free printable Halloween card that Emily has so generously shared with all of us. So cute!

images from The Black Apple

I still can’t get over how many fantastic calendars are being created for 2009. Here’s some calendar link love:

* decor8 has a 2009 calendar roundup to end all calendar roundups…I’ve featured a few of these, but there are so many wonderful new to me calendars, too.

* design*sponge has recently featured gorgeous calendars from Satsuma Letterpress (lovely illustrations!) and Orange Beautiful (shown above, and the perfect gift for the typophile in your life, I might add).

image from Orange Beautiful

We have a small, somewhat awkward corner niche in our new apartment. Since we moved in about three months ago, I’ve been searching for something that will look great in this space, but I haven’t found anything that I love yet for year ’round display. However, after I saw the October issue of Martha Stewart Living, I had my inspiration for Halloween. I talk more about my pumpkin obsession and show the pictures that inspired me on my personal blog, Domestifluff.

In order to create the display, I purchased a butterfly paper punch, made a quick butterfly template in a few sizes, and got to punching and cutting out cardstock. I used Zots to attach the butterflies to the wall and the pumpkin, and I really like how it came out! This small project has definitely gotten the wheels turning, and I can’t wait to work on my next holiday display!

images from Paper Crave