Boos on Booze

 I was scanning this season's decorations around my home and came across this tray. Surely, I thought, surely I've posted this tray before.  I hadn't.

I found this tray several years ago at an estate sale for $5.  I loved the design and artwork.  Two martini-drinking ghosts? Why not?  Those owls have seen things.

Halloween Revisited -- Halloween Hang Up

I never did find a definitive date on this.  I ended up selling it on eBay years ago.

I found this Halloween door hanger in a box lot I bought at an estate sale about a month ago.  

Halloween Revisited -- Beistle Halloween Pirate Die Cuts

As with last year, I'll be reposting some past favorites (of mine) throughout the month on the weekends.  These diecuts are still a favorite of mine and at the time I thought I overspent on them (they were $10 each), but I'm glad I picked them up because I haven't seen them since.  Here they are in this year's display.

***Originally posted October 3, 2016

 These early Beistle die cuts are probably my favorite ones found this year.

Tiny Blow Molded Witch

My content seems to be very witch-centric this year.  Here's another one.

I don't recall where I found this little blow-molded and flocked witch, but it reminds me of the Christmas ornaments from Hong Kong in the 1970s.

I've placed it here among my blow-molded Jack O' Lanterns (more on those in a later post).

I'm not sure if she originally had some kind of broom tuft sticking out the back of her broomstick. There's a hole there, but because it acts as a stand, anything stuck in there might cause it to teeter over.

The addition of the wart at the end of her chin is a nice touch and we can see she's painted her nails for the occasion, or possibly that's blood from some unfortunate victim.

Witch Paper Plate

Another piece of ephemera today is this Halloween paper plate featuring another witch and her familiar along with bats for good measure.  It probably dates from the 1970's when Halloween was softening from the prior scarier images.  I do like the bright neon orange colors which don't show up as well in this photo as in person. I bought this in a stack of 6 identical plates from the same estate sale as yesterday's nut cup.

Nutty Jack O' Lantern

I found this Halloween nut cup at an estate sale for $4 which might sound like a lot for such a small piece, but you have to remember how ephemeral something like this is.

Child Life October 1978

 I never read Child Life magazine as a kid. In fact, I never even saw it until I began finding them at estate sales. But anytime I find an October issue of anything, I'll pick it up.  For your perusal, here are the better parts of the October 1978 issue of Child Life.  The cover features a witch and her familiar being terrorized by jet-pack wielding Elves.  Kind of a metaphor for how stores push Christmas during Halloween these days.