Happy Halloween!
Posted By AmyD. on October 31, 2006
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The story of the Jack o’Lantern comes from Irish folklore. Jack was a crafty farmer who tricked the Devil into climbing a tall tree. When the Devil reached the highest branch, Jack carved a large cross in the trunk, making it impossible for the Devil to climb down. In exchange for help getting out of the tree, the Devil promised never to tempt Jack with evil again. When Jack died, he was turned away from Heaven for his sins and turned away from Hell because of his trickery. |
| Condemned to wander the Earth without rest, Jack carved out one of his turnips, took an ember from the devil, and used it for a lantern to light his way. He became known as “Jack of the Lantern.” – AllRecipes.Com |
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I love good Halloween stories and this I think is probably the coolest I’ve heard of how Jack O’Lanterns got their start.
Well, the house is all decorated for Halloween and we’re all pretty excited to be passing out candy this year. I’ve got a CD of spooky sounds to burn to play on the front porch but other than that all the important stuff is taken care of.
Maggie is going as Tinker Bell and Kate is going as Wendy. I think they’ll look pretty cute.
Check out our Masterpiece:
Our front porch
The tombstones Ethan and I made
The front door (and yes, Britt, I made the freaking wreath, ok?)
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Holy crap woman! Your house looks awesome! We only have two punkin’s and a stupid dangly witch thing *chuckle* Thanks a bunch for the ecard, it made me giggle
Happy Halloween!
those tombstones are fabulous!
Holy shit that looks AWESOME!!! And that wreath? Gorgeous (and BTW, I make my own autumn AND Christmas wreaths so simmer down m’kay?
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Wendy and Tinkerbell… how perfect. I expect pictures!!!
A very spoooooky front yard. We had spiderwebs and tombstones, until the 40 mile an hour winds last week. now my garbage has the spiderwebs (full of leaves) and the tombstones are somewhere in Timbuctu.
Oh very festive!!! Great job!