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Just thought I'd let you know how the treat-bags turned out. I decided to use brown paper sacks, I loaded them with candy, folded down the sack top and then stapled on the Halloween Treat Labels.

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If you feel you 've decorated as much as possible for Halloween, but you need just a little something to give your house that extra "oomph" that will scare the pants off your visitors, take a tip from Mortica Addams and don't forget the houseplants!

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Today is a grey and blustery day where I live. The winds have been howling and the trees are quivering in fear. Leaves are whirling and skittering madly - it feels like Halloween is nearing! Today, I am posting a dancing skeleton halloween decoration that came out of a 1970 children's magazine (Jack and Jill). If you click on each of the images you can download a pdf of each page. As the instructions say, print them out on cardstock, punch holes where indicated and attach all the body parts with brass brads or tabs so that the joints move and you can position your skeleton any way you like!  While you are doing this you must sing,

"Dem bones, Dem bones, Dem dry bones!
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This weekend we bought a coupla pumpkins. I tried to limit myself this year because I would go crazy if left unchecked, then I feel bad when the pumkins get all soft and rotten after Halloween is over. Throwing them away sucks - it's like cleaning up on New Year's Day with a hangover . . . you know the party's over. Sigh.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves right? If you're planning to carve a pumpkin or two this Halloween you must check out Extreme Pumpkins! They have galleries of carving ideas, videos on how to do it, templates available, using power tools and pyrotechnics . . . they've got it all!

Here are a few of my favorite designs from the site (it's hard to choose a few, they're all pretty clever!)

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As a kid some of my favorite Halloween decorations were these little orange jackolanterns my mom made from construction paper. I didn't know for a long time that they were homemade - yet they were just simple paper jackolanterns with faces drawn on with magic markers.

If you have similar talents for constructing Halloween decorations, here are some great links to templates that you can print out and construct.

Cannon's website has lots of cool masks and decor. [More]

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