I know I said I was done with all the Hallowe'en hooferah, but can I help it if my friends have now been reminded of my passion for this holiday and keep sending me interesting links?

• The leftover Hallowe'en candy pie by cakespy on Serious Eats looks both delicious and disgusting. However, I bet that most children would find this pie fabulous.
  
• Did you know that the Cadbury factory in Toronto has been doing a big Hallowe'en event at its Gladstone factory for the last 20 years? I lived in Toronto when I went to college and somehow I never found out! (Mind you, I've never gone up the CN Tower either, nor have I visited Niagara Falls. Well, once as an infant doesn't count.)
  
• I love this idea for zombie girl scout badges by Craftster user wheezyx (although it'd be on a navy blue Girl Guide sash if the zombie was Canadian). Limb reattachment, arm gnawing, lurking, brain eating... Can you earn them all?

I'm looking forward to this Christmas and what I might make for my friends. I know a lot of Browncoats (Firefly fans) and I don't think that any of them have a Jayne Cobb hat yet. What's a Jayne Cobb hat, you ask? It's the hat that the Jayne character gets in the mail from his mother in the episode The Message. You can find pictures of the hat as well as a pattern here, and another popular version of the hat here. Oh, and here's a video that explains the phenomenon somewhat. In my search for patterns I also found some fun variations on the theme:

• Big damn hooch cozy from The Anticraft
  
• Jayne Cobb hat tea cozy by harveynobum
  
• Jayne Cobb hat brooch by ax174

If you think that the hat would be a perfect gift for someone you know but you're not a knitter yourself, check out Wear With Style where they'll knit you up a Jayne hat to your specs. The queue is at least three weeks long right now so if you want a hat before Christmas you'd better order soon!