Post your coolest Halloween decorations!
5I lost a lot of my Halloween stuff and all my Halloween cooking stuff the summer before last (I will never stop mourning the black coffin-shaped candle with a skeleton on the front, which smelled like crayons and that I’d had for 32 years). I’ve been having some luck this year finding cool, vintage and vintage-y pieces in thrift shops, which has been nice. I want to show off a little bit. But I want to see your stuff too!
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I bought this little girl last week at Goodwill for $2.99. Someone hid her among the lamps. She is latex, from 2001 and meant to be hung from a hook that is no longer on the back of her hat. I’m pretty sure the design inspiration was Lisa Simpson. I love her.
Looks like what my old GF looks like now…Bahahaha
@foxwholesaleltd Look, we all become kitchen witches eventually.
Love these eyes bought at a flea market for two bucks.
we’re pretty basic…couple lit plastic pumpkins out front, put an orange bulb above the front door, and found an old dummy my brother made 30 yrs ago in a box in the attic. back then he sat on the porch swing at our old house. this house doesn’t have a front porch, so when we moved in, the swing went on an A-Frame in the back of the yard.(sadly doesn’t get NEARLY the use it did at the old house…) anyway…
@earlyre That’s a friendly dummy! Many, many years ago the across-the-street neighbors suspended a dummy directly in front of their front door and put a ring of candles around it on the ground. I don’t think they wanted trick-or-treaters. I like yours better.
@mossygreen sounds a but like a lady i work with. she lives next to a cemetery, and went overboard with tombstone and zombie etc decorations(including fog machines), to the point the Pizza boy won’t get out of his car at their house… he stops in the drive and calls them to come out to him…
@earlyre sounds like my kind of people.
This is my very mediocre pumpkin thingy:
@Trillian very cute!
@Trillian I like it! I’d like it better with a dangerous candle inside, but I guess it’s your own business if you don’t want to burn your house down. [shrugs]
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@mtb002 So, the earlier ones are your yard and the last one is your spooky, magical swamp? I like them all, but I love your magical swamp.
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Yes, the koi pond is right next to the front door, so we put in a fogger and a bunch of piranha, gator, frog, lizard skeletons and light them up. I have a mermaid skeleton for this year as well. It’s a very popular attraction.
I need to take better pictures. I can’t put the really good stuff out this year until I know it’s not going to rain. I have a clutch of dragons to put out.
@mtb002 I will patiently await your dragon clutch.
Poo Witch poops candy and makes noise. Poo Witch.
@Starblind POO. WITCH.
No cool decor but at least this year we get to have decor! And be available for trick-or-treaters! Day off FTW!
All our cool decorations from kidhood went to my siblings who actually have kids; they still use them.
@duodec Lucky! As a single, childless woman working in retail I’m always scheduled for Halloween.
@mossygreen Yep, kid-free but with perpetually late workdays so no trick or treat except when Halloween ended up on a weekend, and work didn’t claim same weekend.
My flame bulbs from Amazon have reportedly arrived at home. I hope they look as good as they did online.
@mossygreen Just found a pic of one of our old decorations when we were kids; probably came from the drug and discount store my Dad was the manager of (employee discount!). There’s one up at the Goodwill auction site. I’m not bidding on it…
@duodec Oh, I love those! Have a couple that went through the flood relatively unscathed but need new light cords. Do your siblings live nearby? They really should let the pieces cycle through the family.
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Nah, its ok; better that their kids get to enjoy. Maybe the pieces will survive to another generation that way too; one of the kids might be nostalgic enough to keep them whereas a piece they have no memories of bequeathed from a remote uncle would just be stuff they have to deal with.
Pretty sure you can check a reasonable size art or hobby store to find the snap-in/plug-in light cords for these things.
My wife and I bought a flying ghost at Cracker Barrel. It was too cute to pass up. It’s sound activated so it still catches me off guard 1-2 times a day.
https://shop.crackerbarrel.com/home-furniture/home-decor/accents/animated-flying-ghost/627895
We hung it in front of our large picture window in the living room. I’m sure between that and the Window Wonderland projector blasting the window with zombies trying to claw their way out the upstairs window, our neighbors are WTF
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Shower-Wonderland-Projector-Bulbhead/dp/B075F6CKLP
@capguncowboy That thing is HUGE. Two feet tall? On a string? Does it really go across a whole room?
@mossygreen it can travel the full distance of the string, but you can adjust the stops so it doesn’t travel as far if you want. We have it set so it travels across the picture window and back
I traditionally put out my Halloween decorations around the 30th and leave them up past Thanksgiving. It’s totally not because I’m a procrastinator. Not at all.
Here’s my plasma ball skull:
And my zombie gnome which made it past Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter and actually is still sitting on the mantle. I love my zombie gnome.
@sammydog01 So what you’re saying is that the zombie gnome is year-round decor and isn’t a Halloween decoration at all.
Ok bear with me while I try to post the pictures. It rained this afternoon and wrecked my lunging dog/zombie,so they weren’t as cool as they could have been, but the winter dragon made up for it.
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Still not getting the hang of multiple pics in a post.
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@mtb002 OH MY GOD. THAT’S A DRAGON!
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With fishing line, fake spiderwebs, colored glow sticks (preferably blue), and clear glass ornaments you can make will o’ wisps.
@ThomasF Intriguing…
@mossygreen cut segments of the fake spiderwebs and wrap them around the ornaments so that it still has a mostly spherical shape but obvious puffs. Remove the ornament cap and push two or three lit spaghetti/necklace style blue snap glowsticks inside. Recap and add the line to the cap.
@mossygreen @ThomasF Remind me next year please?
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@mossygreen @sammydog01 Difficult to picture
My kids.
@bootsmonday now I’m really bummed that I didn’t get to make those this year. Nice job!
@bootsmonday Wow!
I found this great ceramic cat lantern last month. It has a wonky eye you can only see when it’s lit. Just like a real cat!
I take back what I said, you can totally see the wonky eye in this photo.
@mossygreen you talking about the marble they glued in sideways? Oops.
Love the cat!
@RiotDemon Yes indeed!
@mossygreen I wonder if you could carefully scrape out the glue and realign it.
@RiotDemon Hmm, I’d be worried about damaging it. It’s probably mid '60’s or so, though, so it’s possible the glue is brittle. Dare I take the chance?
@mossygreen I would just try a little bit with a dental tool or something similar.
Alternate thought, take a piece of electrical tape and cut it to make a new pupil. Less chance of breaking anything. If you like the way it looks, paint it?
@RiotDemon I have a large ceramic toad with marbles glued onto holes on its back (it lights up) that’s probably a similar age and at least one of the marbles has fallen off (I hope I still have it somewhere, well, I’m sure I do, I hope I can find it one day). I’ll probably take a look at it to get a sense of possibilities before I take a whack at my precious complementary colored cat.