If you're in the homebuilding industry chances are that you attend a handful of home building trade shows, conferences, seminars, courses or events during the course of any given year just to keep up with the latest trends, techniques and suppliers in your area of expertise.

I've got THE LINK to plan your calendar for all upcoming home building industry events for the foreseeable future.

Rondel glass makes an ordinary window extraordinary. I personally saw some rondel glass beautifully encased in some custom handmade windows at the English cottage-style home that I've been visiting over the past few months.

I recently had the opportunity to meet and talk with homeowner, Julie Bonner. She was gracious enough to share some insight regarding the rondel glass windows in her new home and how it all came about.

Here's a Top 10 Halloween costume list for boys as chosen by a typical 11 year-old boy.

Are there any Halloween haunted houses in my area? A question that will be on the minds of many haunt-seekers preceding the Halloween season.

Are you thinking that you may want to make your own haunted house this year! (see below)

Here's a few great links to Halloween Haunted Houses, Real haunts and Virtual Haunted Houses:

A bounty of Halloween costume ideas can be found at Eddie's Trick Shop.

We occasionally visit the historic Marietta Square here in Georgia and a regular stop (especially for my 10 yr. old son) is Eddie's Trick Shop. You could literally spend an hour or so browsing all of the cool trick props, masks and incredible Halloween costumes. I know because we've done it on many occasions.

What is a Halloween costume post doing on The Fun Times Guide To Homebuilding: a homebuilding blog? Never you mind. The Halloween holiday is responsible for too many Fun Times to let it slip by without a Guide To a great source for Halloween costumes. Besides..Eddie's is on the historic Marietta Square where there are many Homebuilding sites nearby.

Here's why Eddie's is a great source for just about any Halloween costume idea...