Vintage Hallowe'en

 

 

 

LOVE vintage magazine covers! So sweet!

I'll Get You, My Little Pretty!

I just ordered this today and I absolutely cannot wait to have it in my hot little hands!

Vintage Hallowe'en: Tricks, Treats, & Traditions.

From the publisher:

The Vintage Hallowe’en book has been “Reconjured” in this new expanded edition! Full of rare vintage photographs, illustrations, collectibles, lore, poems & short stories depicting the history of Hallowe’en. This custom hardback art book makes a great center-piece decoration, and features “Trick-or-Treat” traditions & scary tales from the past. The new “Reconjured” 2021 edition has 232 full-color art paper pages that are full of new material depicting the very best of All Hallows’ Eve!

Is anyone else excited our favorite holiday is upcoming? 

It's Hallowe'en!

 

Vintage Woolworth's

 

Halloween Pin-Ups

Via Cool Chaser.

Via Rachael Storms.

Via Cult of Weird.

Halloween 1938

Photographer unknown.

Vintage

Possibly one of the oddest vintage Halloween postcards I have ever seen!

Via Phyllis Godfrey on Pinterest.

Troublemakers

Via Viral Nova.

Ladies Home Journal Halloween

Ladies Home Journal, October 1905. Image via Behind the Curtain blog.

Happy October, gang! The night of nights is close upon us. Are you excited? :D

Halloween Life

Life magazine cover, October 23, 1931. Via Dracula's House of Halloween, with a hat tip to Johnny Thunder for sending it to me!

Vintage Hallowe'en Pin-Ups

I just love the pin-up girl era. There was a certain sweetness and fun wrapped up in each photo, and of course, the women photographed were beautiful and graceful. Throw Hallowe'en in, and it's the perfect photo op.

Via The Selvedge Yard

Via The Musings and Adventures of a Pinup Mama

Via Sean F McGuire on Tumblr

Hallowe'en Finds

 One of the nifty things about being up at Jack Russell is there are other vendors who are also artists.


One of them is a glass blower, who actually does live glass blowing demos. I had a moment of quiet at my booth, and wandered over to where he was working away and scanned over the many pieces he had on display. He made some gorgeous goblets that had me thinking about vintage vaseline glass, in addition to a number of other pretty, shiny things. I was actually really impressed with what he'd made, and once again wished I could get into glass blowing (and iron work, too), but one more thing on my plate is simply not an option!


Then something caught my eye.


SCORE! Spider apothecary jar! Fill with plastic spiders and life is good, baby! I asked him to set it aside for me until I made a few sales and could pay him for it. Doesn't it look fantastic? I can't wait to see how it looks in my setup.


Another find were these fun drink charms. I never seem to have enough of these at any time, so when I found them on tartx's Etsy store, and found they were Hallowe'en and Dia de los Muertos themed, I had to have them!


They came quickly and are fairly reasonably priced, I have to say that these pictures don't really do them justice. They're much nicer in person!


These are really going to make a splash at my annual Hallowe'en party.


Oh, and while we're somewhat on the topic of drinks, I had a drink testing get together with the girls last week, and discovered that the Black Lagoon Cocktail from Martha Stewart's site is just fantastic. It does take some prep work beforehand, but it is so worth it. I'm going to have to start making the ice cubes for the party here pretty soon, just so I know I have enough. One of my neighbors has been kind enough to give me some extra ice cube trays; who has those anymore, with built-in ice makers so available? I love the effect the melting of the black ice cubes gives the drinks, and the whole concoction is really tasty. I'm glad BevMo and Costco are close by, that's for sure!

Cocktails, anyone?

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One of the few things I regret about not having a real job and enduring the growing (read:economic) pains of starting my own business is not having the discretionary income to spend on what's really important: vintage Hallowe'en decoractions!

Oh, well. At least with window shopping, there's no buyer's remorse.

Image by halloween_guy

Heartland Antique Mall

Halloween Decorations Ideas Blog

For sale at iOffer dot com by donaldroszz (379)

From the Atelier Blog



Vintage Halloween Photos

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