After four wonderful years, it is with great big sniffles and loud boo-hooing that we have waved a fond farewell to our lovely office manager Knotty Sarah and Knotty Brianna, mistress of Wholesale and Distribution. It’s been a blast, and you’ll be very sadly missed, ladies!

Ascending the Throne as Office Manager of the Good Ship Knotty, located waaay up in the crows nest and brandishing her bejeweled saber is our resident pirate-ess Knotty Emma. Yar! And joining her crew is NEW Southern Belle Knotty Kelley all the way from Nashville, Tennessee, to whom you can give a very warm sun-shiney welcome when you call us and hear her lovely Southern accent through the phone in our Knotty Boy Customer Service department. Watch out, you might die a little bit from cuteness!
 

Knotty Boy ‘How to Make Dreadlocks’ Instructional DVD Now Available!

It just wouldn’t be a Knotty eZine without an exciting new product for us to unveil, and we’re super-de-dooper, mega-humungously excited about our new Instructional DVD finally for sale - all for the low, low price of $7 ea. At Knotty Boy, we believe learning should always be free, but sometimes taking a DVD over to your friends’ house is easier than taking your whole computer. Hence the same awesome info now in DVD format! In addition to the convenience of viewing this video from any DVD player, get ready for serious increased video quality, as well as hilarious outtakes of our Knotty Boy stylists that'll make it worth every penny. Or… continue to enjoy our free version of How to Make Dreadlocks video with our compliments, for your viewing and learning pleasure!

Cuter than a box o’ babies, these Knotty Boy Winter Pigtail Pilot Hats are super-popular, cozy winter hats made from the woolliest of wool, edged with a contrasting blanket-stitch and braided ties, and topped with two little pigtail-holes for extra-ridiculous cuteness. Get ‘em quick, because come Spring, they’ll be gone daddy gone!

And don’t forget to check out our awesome, new Super-Stretch DoubleWraps, too. We happy to report we can barely keep them in stock, you Knotty kids love ‘em so much!

Knotty business meeting is officially adjourned! On to unabashed Halloweenie fun! *sniggle*
 

Let’s start with the ‘Don’ts’, shall we? Thou shalt not:
	use food colouring or Kool-Aid to color your locks… big mess and it’ll never come out completely.
	cut off your dreads for the sake of a costume. As if you would – psh!
	put glitter in your locks, unless you want to be a walking glitter-shower for the next six months.
	toilet paper your teachers house… yeah, they always catch ya.
	set off fire-crackers or light bonfires near your dreads. Hellloo flaming ropes of hair right next to your face!
	dye your locks a crazy colour with temporary dyes if you only want it for one day. Colour of any kind rarely comes out completely because your locks are like little sponges. Try synth-dreads instead! Our very own locticians at the Knotty Boy Lock Shop can attach single synth dreads for as little as $10 each.
Now for the ‘Do’s! Thou shalt:
	participate! Old age is no excuse for not dressing up, bobbing for apples or trick-or-treating.
	incorporate your locks into your costume, or dreadlock your hair for the first time and go as a good-fer-nothin’ free-loadin’ hippy - hey, the candy IS free, after all. Hook it up!
	always tell your parents where you’re going… even if they live in New York and you live in Montana.
	keep all candy AWAY from your dreads, especially juicy Double Bubble that one minute tastes really good and the next minute tastes like total crap, or that melted toffee that always tastes like total crap.
	cover up those locks if you are going to get up to any crazy Halloween hijinx, so you’re not easily identifiable - but we’re only supporting HARMLESS knottiness, let that be clear!
	use epoxy costume glue in a ventilated room, and keep your dreads out of it for obvious reasons. The results could be either funny, disastrous or both.
	look into getting some synthetic dreads tied into your locks if you want crazy Halloweenie (*huhuh* weenie.) colour on your head, instead of dyes.
	use wire to make locks stick up instead of gelatin or other scary hair products that will leave serious build-up in your locks.
	have fun!

And, of course, to successfully steal candy from children, you need to be heartless, ill-tempered, and totally confident in your child-robbing abilities. Mostly ill-tempered.
Having said that, let’s move on to...
 

Get ready for the results of some serious DreadQuarter brainstorming for your pure dressing-up pleasure!

The Knotty Boy himself, of course!
Get some patchy jeans, a little t’shirt with a 7 on it and bare feet and go as our own beloved Knotty Boy. Aw!

Medusa
Borrow a stuffed unicorn (because yours is, uh, in a box in the attic and totally not on your bed *shifty eyes*), wrap up in a sheet for a toga, and thread some wire into those dreads. Ta da! Instant snake-headed goddess with stuffed unicorn.

Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons
Come to think of it, Otto the Bus Driver would be an easy one, too! Hm…

Spider Head
Black turtleneck pulled up over your face (cut holes to see through), then add huge googley spider eyes fixed to the front of your head o’ locks, and a piece of wire sticking up from the middle like a spider thread. Creepy!

Pippi Longstocking
The Pipster rules. All you need is red dreads (or not), braiding ability, sturdy wire, freckles, stripy socks and a mischievous twinkle in your eye. Oh, and a horse. And a monkey called Mr. Nilsson! You can’t forget Mr. Nilsson.

Cleopatra
Fashion yourself a dishdasha (that’s an Egyptian robe- ooooh, aren’t we clever!) out of a sheet, add mountains of eyeliner, a beaded head-dress and Bob (Marley)’s your uncle. (Actually, no. No, he’s not. And he never will be. *sigh* Bet he’d sure be a nice uncle, though. Not to mention another good dread-related costume!)

Poison Ivy
More hot red dreads, a slinky green catsuit, mask and urm… lots and lots of plastic ivy.

Goldie Dread Locks
Oversized bowl of porridge, a tiny chair, and golden dreads to adorn your head, as you hop from bed to bed (wow – we’re poetic, witty AND full of great ideas!).

Rob Zombie
‘E-e-e-lectric head – it’s in your head… ’ Go crazy with this super fun costume!

A pineapple
Put your dreads up in a high, sprouty ponytail and fashion a kind of pineapple suit out of egg cartons… maybe? OK, fine, fine, we’ll try a little harder here…

Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Long dreads down your back, huge fake eyes and eyelashes, stitches on face and mouth, and rag dress is all you need to complete this excellent costume!

Pirate
Arrange your hot pirate locks with braids, beads, yarn, feathers and other dangly bits (as described in our previous pirate-themed eZine, remember?), then accessorize with an eye patch, hook, parrot, compass- the list is endless!

Voodoo Priest/Priestess
Similar to the Pirate costume, just with more feathers, sticks and grasses wound into your locks, along with goat bone pipes, silver sparkly beads and lots of face paint!

Anime character
You know they love the locks!

Cave man/Cave woman
The original sporters of dreadlocks? Hey, there’s no costume easier than being hairy and mostly naked.

Others Costumes (still in development)
Trees (use wire to make dread branches), mermaids, upside-down mops, Raggedy Ann and Andys, Rainbow Brights, rockstars (ie. members of Korn, GWAR, Lenny Kravitz, etc.), My Little Ponies, fairies, witches - *pant pant pant* Your turn!

Hope these ideas have helped to give you a little head-start on your costumes this year! Have a great time, no matter what you do, and please SEND US PICS of your dreadlock-incorporating costumes! We’d love to add them to the website and future eZines!

That’s all the time we have for the Knotty Halloweenie (*khehe*) Mini-eZine of Horror, but stay tuned for more sheer Knottiness coming in our Winter eZine, just around the corner. Oh! And a warm Happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians out there - Tofurkey all around! Mm, Tofurrrrrkey…

Lots of love to you Knotty kids!

The Knotty Crew