Jumping Toaster Productions

Well folks, we just finished updating our online store! Please feel free to take a quick look around and see if there’s anything you’d like to purchase. Our staff worked pretty hard to work out all the kinks and links, but if we missed anything please drop us an email at: jumpingtoaster@hotmail.com and let us know where we goofed! Don’t forget to keep periodically checking in ‘The Store’ as we’ll be posting more artwork that you can purchase!
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Halloween originates from the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (from the Old Irish samain). The festival is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the mystic boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved and that the dead become dangerous, causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown in as an offering to the spirits. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

With that being said, what are your plans for All Hallow’s Eve? My close friends and I will probably dress up, watch a couple scary movies, carve a few pumpkins, eat a ton of candy and of course scare the ‘Normal’s’. I’ll try to upload a few pics of our pumpkins and costumes for those of you unable to attend!

He was crowned at age eleven

For his father went to heaven.

He was left alone and sad

But he the boy, certainly was not mad.

He used to swing on the Royal Playground

Back and forth not making a sound.

Then one day as he swung by himself

He said “What’s the point of having so much wealth!?”

“I’ll jump off the swing and end this cruel life.

Being alone with no kids, nor wife.”

And as he begun to pick up the pace

His heart beated faster, as if in a marathon race.

And at the very last push he leaped from his seat

And who would have guess a fairy he would meet.

The fairy shocked and surprised,

Saved the poor boy from an early demise.

She said to the boy “Why end your life, there’s too much to do!”

“Life is too short, to end up like glue.”

The boy then told the tale of his sad state of life

The fairy smiled and said “Boy, I’ll gladly be your wife”

“Together we’ll fly through the clouds in the sky!”

“We’ll be together forever, this I cannot lie.”

So if you are sad, and cannot go on

Jump off of a swing and see if you touch the lawn.