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Monday, Monday on Tuesday (again) or more links to help get you through Halloween

Photo courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens.

Photo courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens (bhg.com).

Take a break from the traditional leering Jack O’Lantern and check out these alternatives for the pumpkin you are about to pluck from the patch and plop on your doorstep (or table, or shelf…)

Planning on making your kid’s costume? Martha Stewart has some ideas for you (of course). She’s got some plans for your own costume as well…

Or there’s always this eagle mask (hat?) I saw on Pinterest…

Looking for an alternative to that plastic pumpkin basket? A ghost bag could work, or this embroidered one, or this little black-cat-on-burlap number…

If anyone is interested in being a Native American, or Robin Hood, or an elf, this is the bow and arrow for you.

Kids like their candy, but the adults need a little something else to survive this holiday. The people over at Saveur have gathered up these 13 cocktails that should fit the bill perfectly.

Last but not least, give your kids a non-candy alternative with these 13 healthy Halloween treats. And if that ain’t enough, here are 64 more!

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  1. Brooke Williams Admin

    Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Emily. As an American women whose family hails from both Native American (Yemasee in South Carolina) and African origins, I am very sensitive to your viewpoint and agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of that costume company’s ignorant description of an entire culture. That said, I don’t think that it is wrong for kids to dress up as Native people of any kind, be they North American, Australian, Kenyan, Indian or Japanese, as long as they have an age appropriate understanding of who they are pretending to be. In fact, I’d rather they begin to try to walk in the shoes of other, actual cultures and people than dress as Cinderella or the cowboy from Toy Story. Just something for us parents to think about as we try to raise conscious and respectful human beings.