Halloween themes from KateR? and Lynne

Smash Maybe KateR? above and Lynne below with some fun Halloween dingbats. Have you all heard the word dingbat used for little line drawings? Printers used the term for little line bits and pieces they could use in addition to type and borders. Later, when everything turned to photo images, the term was maintained and you can buy entire *fonts* that are all dingbats and no actual letters. I've always wondered how the term originated.

Here is the first description that popped up.

It is from something longer.

I did not follow the trail because it is March as I write this and I need to stay on task and not get sidetracked.

This sense of “dingbat” first appeared in print (as far as we know) in 1915. ... To begin at the shallow end of the pool, the element “ding” in “dingbat” is probably the Dutch word “ding,” meaning “thing.” This “ding” is also the source of our English slang word “dingus,” meaning “gadget, contraption, thingamabob.

Smash left a comment noting that the top envelope was misattributed to her. Seattle usually means KateR. We'll have to wait for the Seattlillians to wake up and confirm or not.