When you see more die cuts posted, you know I'm running behind on posts and needed something quick. I'm having trouble keeping up this year, despite taking several days off this past week. But anyway, here you go. While these aren't classic die cuts, they are Beistle and they date from the 1980's, so they have a little creep cred.
First up is a classic Dracula.
Today's post again has potential to raise the objection that it's not Halloween related. And I acknowledge there's nothing directly Halloween-y here, but there are some nice Autumnal scenes and a couple of those feature pumpkins, so there's that. I do expect, however, that some readers will have flashbacks to their own childhood home walls when they see this. It seems to be a trigger object for many, including myself.
Continuing from yesterday's blog about disguises, here are some rubber/vinyl masks I found this summer at various garage and estate sales. When I was a kid, rubber masks were for the wealthy.
First up is this vampire mask with "lifelike" hair. The odd thing is, he had sculpted hair already. I guess it didn't do well, so they thought adding additional hair might help. I'm not sure of the maker of this.
When I was deciding on a Halloween costume as a kid, it was always my goal to not be recognized, whether it was through the use of mask or makeup. I generally didn't have the scratch for a costume, so many times, it was makeup. I've written previously about some of my failed attempts at using makeup to disguise myself.
Imagineering and other companies sold kits aimed at making kids think they could successfully disguise themselves without the need for makeup. I recently found the remnants of some of those kits.
Normally each season I try to limit the same kind of object to one per week, particularly die cuts. But this year, I've come into a goodly number of them, many from the same sale, so I thought I'd start posting these a little more frequently.
First up is this Beistle Witch. I'm not sure if she's supposed to be a child witch or just a short witch, but I like her and her frightened Jack O' Lantern. It's one I've never seen before, and I found 2 at the same sale.
Now, I know some of you may argue that today's entry may not qualify as Halloween or horror related. I would counter, first of all, that Snoopy is very Halloween related, given "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" in which he makes a memorable appearance as a World War I flying ace battling the Red Baron. I would then add, that not only is today's entry Snoopy, it's a Hitler-mustachioed, Iron cross-bearing, masked, alternate universe Snoopy in which he was born in Germany under the Kaiser's watch and now fights for the other side. How's that for horror?
