I actually have one of these fence thingees for keeping my kids from getting to certain things like my desk.  Of course, these are great for blocking either your kids or yourself but I just found out there a better way to keep your baby/toddler in a safer environment, the Playzo ...

For Halloween, you might want to consider this really cool DIY that shows you how to make skull graveyard fence out of PVC pipes.  Even better, replace the top with something else and you can keep using it as a fence. Our nice, quiet graveyard was already full, so we wanted to ...