Reliving Halloween

Today is Day 2 of AEDM, although it's posted on November 1.  Here's the deal.  Leah, of Creative Every Day lives somewhere on the east coast.  If unlike me, you can see the clocks (I wrote about here) on my right sidebar, her time zone is "Washington."   She posts each morning at midnight her time, which means if I want to participate, I need to post before 11 pm the evening before (just like I must post early with WOYWW). So for the remainder of this month, I will be posting at night, rather than the following morning as I normally do.  As with yesterday (and the past week), I still can't leave comments on any Blogger embedded comment box.

Yesterday I visited a shop in my neighborhood that collected clothing for Breast Cancer survivors.  Since it was the last day to bring these in, I knew I had to visit, or forget it.  I went through my things and found a few of my own clothes, and several my friend Sally has given me.  Granted, Sally weighs about 2 1/2 times more than me, but I use some of her old clothes in my art.  Rather than tear good clothing up (and Sally has some very nice clothing) to make art, I decided to bag everything up and take it to Connie's.

This is a great shop, and I love all the Halloween goodies she had on display.  I'll let you see all this eye candy unobstructed by my chatter.

I can't believe I didn't take a photo of the basket (barely showing) on the end of the table set up to add clothes for the drive.  I had not added my bag when I took this photo.

Again, you can barely see the green container the store manager told me they emptied every day.  What an awesome turnout they must have had.

Speaking of turnout, this is all that was left of nearly 100 Tootsie Pops

I blogged about on Tuesday and started with when the night began.  I had never seen so many children, but it was fitting, since I stepped outside around 7ish, during one of the lulls, and saw only one other light on in the neighborhood for as far as I could see.  After the first batch of children arrived, I remembered why I didn't pass out candy anymore.  It's been a long time and when I did give out candy in the past, it was usually those mini candy bars.  The kids would grab three or four before I could stop them.  The children who came this year were polite and only took one each, although originally I was telling them to take two of their choice.  What a difference this year.  Maybe it was the stems that did the trick, or maybe they were just more polite children.  I know I'll be doing this again next year, because I sure had fun seeing all the costumes and watching the children's faces light up.  One little girl tried to give me a piece of candy from her bag.  Her mother and I both laughed!

How did you spend YOUR Halloween?  Giving is so much fun (and very rewarding), whether it's candy to small children or clothes to cancer survivors.