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Jack-O-Lantern Lantern

February 28th, 2009 by John Wolfe

The title for this entry is a tad redundant. Here, around Albuquerque, New Mexico, we call a lantern like this a luminaria – either way, it’s a metallic sack with a grinning jack-o-lantern face on it. I’m always joking around on Twitter about doing “inappropriate” Halloween things in February to freak people out, for example: digging a really deep hole in the yard at midnight or rattling chains in the attic at 2 AM. It’s my way of fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming Gomez Addams. The mustache is coming in nicely, by the way. :D

If I had just a few more of these lanterns, I would seriously decorate the yard, right now, eight months out from Halloween.

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Kitchen Witches

February 27th, 2009 by John Wolfe

I remember being intrigued by these cackling characters during several 1980′s visits to my grandmother’s house. She always kept one witch hanging directly over the bar stools and the other near the sink. The witches in the image have much more benign looking faces than the mugs on my grandmother’s witches. Those things could have given any kid nightmares. It was around this same time that a couple of neighbor kids (both in middle school, while I was elementary age) started telling me stories about possessed dolls coming to life in the middle of the night. :) I was certain if any dolls could do it, it would have to be those two witches!

I think the witches were supposed to represent good luck or good flavor for your food. Honestly, I’m not sure if I ever heard for certain. If anybody knows, please leave a comment.

I wish I knew what she did with those things. Now, I’d hang them in my house in a heartbeat.

Photo source: Flickr user – nooner.

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