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Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

All Hail The Pumpkin! Amazing Fall Pumpkin Displays


I see them. They're everywhere. In people's yards. On the side of the road. In fields. On display outside of every single grocery store I pass. It used to be just orange colored ones. Now there's white, yellow, blue, green - pumpkins everywhere. Big ones (I like those), small ones (I like those too!), tall ones, squat ones, you get the picture. Pumpkins are everywhere. Well, at least they are where I live - in Pennsylvania. Pumpkin territory.  

For the past few years I wrote blog posts about the creative ways that different folks display and gussy-up their pumpkins. They paint them, decoupage them, glitter and sequin them, stack them, transform them into spiders and cats and giant eyeballs. All of those are cool. They're creative and unique. But sometimes I like my pumpkins just - pumpkins. 

Below I've collected some of the most beautiful au naturale pumpkin displays put together by some creative, like-minded folks. Which style do you prefer? 

Amazing porch step display from The Graceful Gardener


A short ladder makes a great outdoor display. From SuesGarden Journal via Pinterest


Beautiful fall pumpkin mantle display discovered here via Pinterest


Galvanized tub with a variety of pumpkins found here via Pinterest 


Another amazing pumpkin display from The Graceful Gardener

Cute pumpkin display with gourds from A Pretty Life in the Suburbs




Which do you like best?


You might also like:

Dishfunctional Designs: Autumn At Your Doorstep: Decorating Porches & Entryways For Fall


Dishfunctional Designs: Decorating With Unusual & Unique Pumpkins for Autumn and Halloween


Have a great week!
 Laura

Antique Halloween Postcards Turned Into Awesome Jewelry

 Antique Postcard Jewelry by Laura Beth Love
Vintage Halloween postcards transformed into unique jewelry
(don't worry - no original post cards were harmed in the process!)


I love the change in season from summer to fall. By late August/early September our local grocery store already has Halloween candy on display! Is it a bit too early for that? Maybe, but the lure of Halloween is one that I’ve always found especially charming. I love vintage Halloween items. Decorations, masks, costumes and postcards from years past have quite a different charm than those we see today.






The nostalgia of yesteryear is apparent in these vintage collectibles, and for many, brings back memories of childhood fun and games, costumes and trick-or-treating.





Halloween truly is a timeless holiday. What other time of year allows us to be something we are not, to fully use our imagination and allow reality to slip away, even if just for one night?





Halloween Postcards


I once read somewhere that Halloween collectibles are more desirable than collectibles from any other holiday, with Halloween postcards being some of the most sought after items do to their rarity. The illustrations and color lithography on these cards are beautiful. 

Depictions of witches, black cats, jack’0 lanterns, as well as fortune games and scenes of children bobbing for apples are common designs. I personally am intrigued by those with anthropomorphic figures; the corn-cob man and the grinning pumpkin head girl, vegetable people with smiling faces.

It’s amazing to think that at one time (around the late 1800’s and on) Halloween postcards were once as popular as Christmas cards!

Be sure to check out my Halloween Postcard Jewelry. A few of them are reversible, with a different vintage Halloween image on each side. Others feature a single image on one side. Each is very cool!






 



  


I’ve been making jewelry from antique and vintage postcards for a number of years now, and in my opinion, the Halloween images are the most intriguing than those of any other 
holiday. (Aside from Halloween I also make them with Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day 
and St. Patrick’s Day postcards) …And don’t worry, no original postcards are harmed in the process!








What do you think?

Have a great week & Happy Fall!
Laura




My broken china jewelry is always available for purchase at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns





article copyright ©Laura Beth Love 2017 all rights reserved

Vintage Childhood Halloween Costumes from the 70's

Vintage childhood Halloween costumes from the 1970's were the best. The boxed character costumes, the dress-up school parties, trick or treat in the neighborhood...what could be more fun? Oh yeah, the candy! 

Nowadays with kids of my own, the rules sure have changed. No masks, or even face makeup are allowed at school past the elementary level. But outside of school and of course on Trick or Treat night in hometowns across the USA, ghouls abound.

I remember the plastic masks with the dayglo painted faces, the small slits in the plastic for eye, nose and mouth holes, and how your breath behind the mask would condensate, making your face damp and gross. I remember the stapled-on elastic string that never stayed on very long before breaking. 

But most of all I remember the thrill of dressing up, of laughing with friends, of going house to house in the cold autumn night, and getting to escape and be something different - whether scary or not -  even if just for a short while. 

Take a step back in time with these amazing vintage Halloween photos from the 70's (and a few from the 60's and 80's too!)





























Chewie





What was your favorite thing to dress up as for Halloween 
when you were a kid?


Have a great week!
Love,
 Laura

Creepy Halloween Costumes & Makeup


It's that time of year again! I love Halloween! And I love checking out all the unique and unusual costumes and clever Halloween makeup that people come up with each year. My Halloween costume round up from last year (which you can visit here (part 1) and here (part 2) if you haven't seen it) was so popular that I had to do another one this year. 

Now let's take a look at the scariest, creepiest Halloween costumes ever! 

Masquerade flesh mask is not for the faint of heart. by Bonnie Corban



Demon via Pinterest








Which is your favorite?

Have a great week!
Love,
 Laura