The End

Well Happy Halloween Everyone who has dropped by this past month. I wasn't sure I would be able to get thru a whole month of Halloween posts but some how I did ( well maybe I missed a few days). This last post for the the month is a giant vintage store display pumpkin we once had. The piece was great on its own but at one point there was a crow that would sit on the top . When I found it only the feet left which was molded onto the top (you can see on the top left where the feet are). The piece was the size of a basketball and looking back I wished I had kept it for at least a little while.


Hope everyone has a great Halloween, see you in a week when Tikiranch goes back to its irregular blogcasting.

Seasonal Smells

A few Vintage Halloween Themed Wizard Airfreshners my wife found.







And yes they still smell great.

Super Over-the-Top / Knotts

Just a few choices out of a vintage Top Hat Magic catalog.


The Most Comfortable Rubber Masks Ever Made


Early 1977 Knotts Scary Farm Original Costume & Makeup Award

Black Cat Friday

Greetings

A few vintage hollowday cards






They sure we full of Hi's back then

Evil Seals

Well maybe not that evil. Two vintage seal/stickers, no peel and stick for these too they need a lick to stick.

To Wake the Dead

A few implements of noise for the Hallows Eve festivities


very unusual wooden ratchet noise maker made in japan


close up,


Vintage tin model

Last Napkin with the works

One last Napkin for the week. This one has about everything jammed in it.



A witch,bat,cat,ghost,haunted house,owl,scary tree,moon,some pumpkins and don't forget those apples????



Thanks for dropping by this last week for all the paper party pieces. Next week we make some noise......

Pumpkin in a pumpkin holding a pumpkin

One happy Jack-o-lantern posing as the scarecrow in the field. He had to gut one his own for a place to stand and staked another kin for something to hold. Just look at the poor guy on the stick his green tongue is sticking out. The artist of this napkin went the easy route on the back by just eliminating most of the front art but left just a piece of the pole.

Pumpkin Square

It seems to me that the older paper plates are square with round corners and the newer ones are round. This one has the usual Hallloween suspects, bats, cats and jacks.....stop by tomorrow and Sunday for the last two party posts.

Jammin Witch

No faced witch with oversized eyes playing her broom while balanced on a black picket fence. Quite a spectacular talent for a witch back then add a few trained dancing owls for flavor.

41 pumpkins

Pumpkin plate overload......

and 1 not too scary black cat

Just a Napkin

They went all with napkins designs back then. Not only the front but also the backs.


Front

Back

Set the Table

Vintage paper plates, napkins and more this week for the month long Halloween posts.


simple generic design late 60's


smaller napkin with witch over flaming cauldron and black cats


close-up

You Sit Here

Need to show your ghosts where to sit?





use these vintage place cards

A Prize for the Costume Contest

What a great gift for the winners.

Light with no fuse

9:50 pm House fuse blows
9:52 pm Search for replacement
9: 55 pm Drive to Home Depot
10:05 pm Find out Home Depot closes @ 10:00 pm
10: 15 pm No power to computer
10:23 am Post this light up I found on Ebay
Tomorrow Back to my Halloween Party Posts

Streamers

Today are some scans off a leftover roll of vintage Halloween crepe paper streamers. I like the way they had alternating Sad/Frowning and Happy/ Smiling Cat and Pumpkin designs. It is nice that this stuff has survived all these years when for the most part it was used for a party and tossed out the next day.

Lets Decorate

Before the strobe lights, fog machines and giant inflatable ghosts things were a little more simple, decoration wise.


jointed black cat , great colors



That witch again flying her broom



Smiling skeleton sayin Howdy.

Party Time

This week will feature all the goods needed for that Halloween Party.
What we need to do first is send out the invites

Small folded invite card


Early one sided invite postcard

Toy for Octoober

Just the toys a kid needs for do it yourself make up and Halloween Pranks



These images came out of a little Mattel catalog feature all the thingmaker toys plus a few other toys they had out at the time.

Caspers Friend

I have this card game set featuring many of the Harvey Comic Characters including these just in time for October.






Funny thing was there were no Caspers....

Final Bag Friday

2 Scary Treat Bags

Floating out of the cauldron stew is sort of smokey Blob Monster character with saber tooth teeth. Evil Witch finally doing something other than flying away.



Scary skeleton hiding under a see-thru Harry Potter cloaking sheet with his trusty owl on his shoulderblade.

I hope you enjoyed this week of Treat Bag art stay tuned next week..... it's Halloween Party Time.