Halloween 2009 is over, everything was great, the parties went off without a hitch. And so starts another year of planning for the upcoming Halloween season once again. I don't know about you, but we get all these ideas of stuff that we want to do, things that we want to design and make for our haunt and the like and then forget to write them down. We do our best thinking on long drives so I've stuck a pad of paper and a pen in the glove box just for writing down ideas on the road.

The Halloween & Party trade shows are taking place now and in March. We'll be going and can report back with some of the cool new stuff that's going to be around this year for Halloween and what the costume manufacturers were showing for this year. We have friends that get us in because it's a professional show only. All I can say is that we lust after many things that we see there!