Earth smart

Halloween clean-up: If the goblins pay you a visit for Halloween, you may wake up Saturday to toilet paper cascading from your trees, eggs dripping down the windows, garbage cans in your lawn and pumpkins smashed on the sidewalk. Put the hot chocolate on hold and get to work, says The Money Pit News Bureau, a syndicated radio show.

• Eggs can damage painted surfaces and wood siding. Use ammonia (to neutralize the egg's acid) and water to scrub doors, windows, siding and trim.

• Use a long-handled branch trimmer on the toilet paper in the trees. Use the hose's power spray to wash scraps down.

• Pumpkins can make for slippery sidewalks. Pick up the large pieces and hose off with detergent like Pine Sol.

To prevent damage, leave floodlights on and lights in the house Halloween night and make sure bikes, cars, toys and garbage cans are indoors. And put your jack-o'-lantern inside when trick-or-treating is over. Information: www.888moneypit.com.

Shop talk

Flower Framers featured: Curb Appeal, the HGTV show that shows how to make the most of a home's all-important first impression, recently put a local biz, Flower Framers window boxes, in the spotlight. The home, a San Francisco suburban ranch, received a landscaper's facelift with an Asian-inspired theme that included five custom-painted window boxes from Flower Framers in Linwood. The self-watering fiberglass boxes come in lengths from 2 to 5 feet (or custom sizes) with built-in drainage systems and hanging brackets fitted to the box. They also come with stainless steel hanging brackets for railings, balconies, fences, decks and porches. $93 and up.

Information: 321-7001 or www.flowerframers.com.

On the block

Auctionn pair: If Rookwood pottery and Cincinnati's masters Frank Duveneck and E.T. Hurley make your heart go pitter-pat, you'll want to take note of two auctions coming up.

• Stuart Holman's Fall Select Auction 4 p.m. Friday at the Business Club of Montgomery offers furniture from the school of Cincinnati Art Carvers from the late 19th century whose works are showcased in the Cincinnati Wing of the Art Museum as well as work by Duveneck and Hurley, Paul Ashbrook, Emma Mendenhall and Victor Casnelli plus Rookwood pieces and formal portraits of Louis and Mary Hudepohl. Previews start at 2:30 p.m. Information: 531-5100 or www.stuartholman.com.

• The Cincinnati Art Galleries' sale next weekend of art glass, pottery and American and European ceramics is for you, at 225 E. Sixth St., downtown. The sale marks the first time for online bidding through eBay via

LiveAuctioneers.com. The 310 lots of American and European ceramics that go on sale at 10 a.m. next Saturday will include more than 70 Roseville items. Tiffany, Steuben, Durand and Lalique pieces are part of the art glass collection scheduled for 3 p.m. next Saturday, and more than 350 pieces of Rookwood will be featured Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. Previews 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today and Monday-Friday. Information: 381-2128 or www.cincinnatiartgalleries.com.

Contact Joy Kraft by phone: 768-8467; fax: 768-8330; e-mail: jkraft@enquirer.com.