Very cute!!! It should make the kids look over their shoulders when they are trick or treating...if they are old enough to read lol....

Very cute, Bermuda. Hope it won't accidentally "creep" off by a trick or treater. :)

So do I...but you never know...when ghouls and goblins start up with their tricks...as for the children who come for candy, they'll have to open the locked glass storm door to get at it....

Ahh, good thinking. I almost bought candy while shopping at Costco the other day. Last year I had over half of the candy left over. I was finally able to persuade my daughter to take it to work in February. It's a tough call every year. I'd hate to run out. It's too sad when kids come knocking and you either don't open the door or break the bad news. I told DH that he was no longer allowed to "card" the kids. He makes comments such as "aren't you a little old to go trick or treating". Who cares. I let them help themselves and treat I don't care if they look like grown men and women. At least this way I don't have leftovers. It's his silly way of making a joke (I hope)!

We don't have as many children come to the door as we did when DH and I were younger. I dressed up as a Gypsy one year, attached some spare wristwatches to inside of one of the "overskirts" I wore and when the kids (mostly 8-10 year group, but some 4-5 year old also) came to the door, I handed them the candy and showed the watches saying, "Hey kid, wanna buy a watch?" There were no takers but I overheard a 5 year old tell her father (who was standing about 6 feet away) "The gypsy woman wants to know if I wanna buy a watch." LOL!

That is hilarious. :)

Bermuda, you mentioned that people in the middle ages only bathed once or twice a year. I read a bit of trivia some years ago that Napoleon actually came up with the idea of having buttons sewn onto men's coat sleeves to keep them from wiping their snotty noses on them! Gross huh?

I'm hoping that's where the term "crusty old men" came from...disgusting, but not as disgusting as my imagination! LOL!!! Can you imagine the sleeves of an old coat? Gives new thought to a "brush up"...always thought it referred to shoulders, front, back...NEVER thought of lower sleeve. Eew!

Bermuda, this is wonderful!!! Researching fabric immediately! Love, love, love it! :)

TEXAS -- I remember that about Napoleon and the buttons on sleeves.

Oh gross! And no such product to 'Shout it out'! Never heard about the runny noses and buttons on the sleeve!
That's why the people in Europe in the
16th/17 century wore powder in their hair: to absorb the oil in their hair from not washing and/or wore powdered wigs to hide their hair. Perfumes were liberally used to cover up the smell of body Oder from not bathing! We've come a long way baby!