Werewolf Die Cut

Halloween draws near, just 2 more days, and this will be the last die cut of this season.

This one is from Hallmark and dates from 1981.  His fur is flocked.

"I'm Weird But I'm Loveable".  Pretty much sums me up.

White Owl Cigar Box

Today's post may stretch the Halloween category, but it's been one of those years and I use it in one of my displays, so hey, give me a break.

I picked up this White Owl cigar box this past year at a garage sale. The box was a little worse for wear, but I liked the imagery and had a Halloween display in mind.  I've situated it on top of my Æolian-Vocalion along with a vintage owl decoy and a more modern candle (plus a mini Jack O' Lantern and crow thrown in for good measure. Maybe I can do an Old Crow display some day).

Witch's Brew

The sale at Lemp Brewery provided one more Halloween-related item.  I found this ceramic witch for $1.

Lemp Brewery Autumn Painting

I had my own garage sale on Saturday this past weekend, so I couldn't go out saling as usual, however, I saw that there was a continued estate sale on Sunday at the Lemp Brewery in St. Louis and I made my way there the next day.

Halloween Revisited -- You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Blog is About You

 I'm a little late with today's "Halloween Revisited", but here it is with a few hours to spare.  This one is from October 4th, 2019.

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I found this print at an estate sale a couple weeks ago for $1.  I've seen the image before, but never knew much about it. The title is "All is Vanity" and it's by Charles Allan Gilbert.

Halloween Revisited -- ESPecially Yours

It's the weekend, so time for more reruns. This post originally appeared on October 29th, 2018.

I've enhanced this post a little as finally tracked down the Real People episode where Gordon Hoener appears.

 I'm a sucker for paranormal shows. Ghosts, UFO's, Bigfoot, Chupacabras, you name it, I'm in, especially this time of year.  I'm sure it dates back to my childhood spent watching Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of...", Jack Palance's "Believe It or Not!" and Robert Stack's "Unsolved Mysteries". Back then, I fell for everything hook, line and Gellar. I like to believe I'm a little more skeptical these days, but reality aside, it's just fun to believe something undiscovered still exists.

Gordon Hoener did too. So much so that he started St. Louis' first "Ghost Busters" group "Haunt Hunters" in 1965.  This brochure I found oddly blends his two passions: Investments and the paranormal; in this case ESP. 

Jack O' Lanterns Aglow

You may have seen some of these, maybe even all of these, over the years, but I decided to display a selection of my Jack O' Lantern pails I've collected over the years all together.  Every one of these came from a garage or an estate sale.  They're harder to find these days, particularly anything pre-1980.  These all date from the 1960's through the 1980's.

I tried to chose one of each with differing expressions which is one of my favorite things about hunting for them; finding a new expression.