Week in Review

I am sad to see October come to a close.  I love how the onset of autumn brings with it a spooky thrill.  The chilly breeze that wraps around you, playfully tossing your hair, the crunch of fallen leaves that make you feel  you are walking in beautiful red, yellow, orange, and brown confetti, and the way the wind and the leaves together rustle with whispers of ghosts and goblins.

Halloween night in a small town is magical with hundreds of children darting about, their giggles ringing in the air like bells.  I was lucky to be part of such a Halloween.  There were people directing traffic on Main Street to keep the Trick or Treaters safe and the churches combined efforts to put on two big trunk or treats and a free meal of hotdogs, chips, chili, and homemade desserts.  The people talked and laughed and if there were a modern day Normal Rockwell, and he had been there, he would have gone home and painted what he saw  for a modern Saturday Evening Post.

I enjoyed a month long horror movie binge and since I finished off all the streaming Korean horror movies on Netflix, I decided to go retro and delved into Giallo movies - Italian horror from the 70's, which, it turns out, are not for the faint of heart.  

Things you should check out if...

...you didn't get a chance to read Eartha's post about a retro Halloween PSA, then run, don't walk, and read it, watch it, and laugh: Childhood: Proceed with Caution - Ranch Dressing with Eartha Kitsch

....you didn't get to see how Danielle Thompson, from Thompson Family-Life, dolled up her vintage portraits for Halloween: making it up to you
 
 ....you love vintage things, because Jenny Mitchell, of the Freckled Wonder BLOG, has some awesome board games.  Kind of spooky, she found the same "Move to the Head of the Class" game I did last week.  collections: mid century board games