FRIGHTFULLY FUN...enter if you dare~

I love it when Halloween rolls around...I still remember the thrill of being out trick-or-treating with my friends, waxing an occasional window(hee hee) running and screaming for our lives! The cold crisp October air...sometimes freezing because it was snowing, all kids should have such memories! We have had some wonderful times with our kids, and now with the grands...I just love Halloween!

Yes, come on in "deary"...we're having a bit of a problem with spiders, but they won't hurt you!

...Unless you run into this big boy!

~My three favorite witches~

I just love to get these little ladies out at Halloween time, they have the cutest faces ever!

I LOVE these witches...they are "good witches" every one! Their faces remind me of people I know. Now please don't take this wrong, but they remind me of my sweet mother-in-law. She is 96 years old..pure angel, with the sweetest face ever!

This little pumpkin is one of 6 on a leather string, they all are different, they dangle under my mantle

I should have bought this....I saw it at T.J.Maxx the other day, my loss..it is so cute!

This cute little trio of ghosts make me smile... Aren't they just bootiful?!

I've had this sweet witch for 28 years...can't believe she's been hanging around so long!

These pumpkins (there are 6 all connected) are fun, with small candles in them, they really glow at night

I love this little old witch with a mouse in her pocket and her big round nose!

A cute book to share with your loved ones....Once upon a time there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, she heard...CLOMP..SHAKE..CLAP.

" I have an idea," said the little old lady...

I'm not afraid of you said the little old lady bravely.

This is a darling little book to share with children ages 3-7...I think it helps them not to be afraid of things they might look at as scary! "

It's a slendiferous Halloween story. A sure-fire winner gloriously noisy actions for storytelling and just shivery enough."(The Horn Book)

The author, Linda Williams and illustrator Megan Lloyd , have done a great job with this little book. Linda is the director of a child development center, working with young children everyday.

It's a fun book for reading or telling aloud...make sure you add the drama, for the fun of it!

I took this picture of the moon the other night as I was coming home over the mountain...it was only 8:30 in the evening..it kept playing peek-a-boo with me through the clouds. I thought it looked like a good Halloween moon!
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I LOVE Halloween! Sometimes I hear adults complain about it but I must be a kid at heart because I really get into it. I'm usually dress up as a witch, I love to go to the schools and tell scary stories, or gather my grandchildren around tell them scary stories.
Maybe it's because we had 8 children and Halloween was a ton of fun for them, so we really did it up big each year. One year we had a spook alley in our garage and even our teenagers loved it. Now with our grandchildren around, I love to have a party with all kinds of Halloween treats, scary music, games , scary stories , I love to have the house all decorated too. They love it..I thought about not doing it this year but then yesterday when some of them were here, I asked them if they thought we should do it again...the answer was YES!!! ( as if to say,well grandma, what were you thinking!)

I hope you'll have fun with it this year, I think the world is getting a little too serious, children need to have fun and they need the most important people in their lives to have a little fun with them.

~HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU ALL~