Halloween

  • family, family historian

    Beggars’ Night

    On October 30, 1926, my Grandma was born on Beggars’ night. She was the first child of Raymond F. Durbin and Ula Mae Akin Durbin.  She told me that Beggars Night was the “treat” portion of Trick or Treat years ago. From the research I have done, it is mainly a midwest tradition. My Great Grandfather Raymond F. Durbin was originally from Illinois.  The children would dress in their costumes and make evening rounds to homes and sometimes businesses. Gathering treats and sometimes they would receive things like buttons, and old jewelry. She collected these two jars for decades, full of little treasures and gave them to me years ago.

     

    She would joke about not knowing exactly was in there, she had collected these as a child and young adult and maybe there might be a $20.00 in one. Tonight I dusted off these old jars and just took out a couple things from the top. Found a beautiful beaded ribbon with the letters BS on it, two fabric cats and a gold broach with red dangling beads in great condition. I placed all these lovely memories back in the jars. Things she had collected from Beggars’ night, her birthday, her own little time capsule.

    Grandma as a young girl in a Clown Costume

    I always find family traditions fascinating, we went Trunk and Treat with our 4 kids this last weekend. It was something completely new for us. Where people gathered on Base and decorated their cars, passing out candy for the kids. What are some traditions you share with your family?

  • My memories

    Cute Halloween Masks-Freebies

    The past few weeks have been busy weeks getting my boys settled with school. I can hardly believe that in another month we will be dressing our little ones up and taking them to trick or treat. Our oldest is 16 and has little interest in dressing up, however our younger children still enjoy it. Today, I received a new freebie from My Memories, a cute little Halloween Mask. There a total of 4 different masks in this weeks freebies. And another feature that is available with these freebies, is that now you won’t have to worry about losing these if you change computers or a computer crash. My Memories now stores these under your account forever. Whenever you need them, you will be able to download them. The only thing you need to do with these are download and print. Then cut out to fit your face, and you will havea  cute mask for Halloween.

     

     

    Don’t forget to check out Touched by a Butterfly my memories store, lots of new sales and freebies. Such as this cute new quick page, Apple Picking, created using Touched by a Butterfly kit Apple Picking.  And don’t forget you can use discount code  STMMMS36408 for a total savings of $20.00, $10.00 towards the software and $10.00 for the kits. You can’t get those savings unless you use the discount code  STMMMS36408.