Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Originally Posted by IslandCryptKeeper

That's just sick.

He He He, Sorry.

I was dealing with that last week. Now we've moved on to "mustard" deposits.

I was in DOLLAR TREE this morning. Nothing "halloween" yet but some of the fall foliage is out. No pumpkins, gourds, or crows yet. DT's bulk catalog which is in the store and probably online has one page of halloween but it's only of a plastic pumpkin candy carryall and of a white stretchy spider web package. Oh and they had a clear plastic skull mug I believe.

Now is a good time however to pick up any tropical items like flowers or ferns or raffia luau skirt material if you are going to need stuff for a tropical pirate, witch doctor, haunted tiki world, etc. haunt theme. This seasonal mdse. will get pulled from the shelves in a few weeks. I picked up an adult raffia skirt (nice length) to cut and adorn my tiki torches or shrunken head or skull spears. I also picked up some ferns and orchids. I'm considering making a cave tunnel in a wall which might have a snake jump out. That or I'm considering a "bottomless" cave entrance effect. The ferns would be a nice touch around the rocks at the tunnel entrance.

I also picked up in the toy section "Roach Scare" part of the Fun With Bugs! collection. They had a jumping spider too. The roach is attached to a retractable button controller that allows you to pull the roach out, set it on a table near your hand and the controller button, and then when some unsuspecting ToTer comes to you to get some candy, you click the controller and it pulls the roach forward making it appear to jump. Or you can slowly retract the cord so that the roach appears to walk across the table. Figured it might be worth a scream or two. And at buck how can you go wrong?

Roach Scare on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Roach Scare on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Any animatroincs at Michael's or Garden Ridge yet? I have Donna the Dead, and I am looking to add on more to our cemetery...

I made it to Garden Ridge and Michael's today. I used a coupon at Michael's to get the Spooky Town 4.5V transformer for my purple lights. Not terribly exciting, but I've had them on battery power for years. I also picked up the dancing skeleton figures. I think I'll go back for the lighted pumpkins and the 3V transformer.
I have very restrained tastes when it comes to spooky town.

At Garden Ridge, they are just getting the first aisles set, and they had a long aisle stack both sides with airblown inflatables. Not my cup of tea, but my first glimpse of Halloween there, and so very welcome. They had animated talking candy bowls, crystal ball "tornado" sets, and the only thing there that interested me, life size beating hearts. The hearts were 7.99 and featured a pulsing beat under the latex or silicone skin. I don't know if this is new for 09 but I dont' remember seeing the hearts before.

I remember seeing the hearts last year on the internet but not in person.

SpiritHalloween had some hearts similar to that last year.

vultures!!! I need vultures this year. Kept waiting for them to go on sale at big lots last year, but they never got to a decent price for the crap they were trying to sell. Perhaps I should try to make one.???

They had a really awesome flying vulture at Spencers and SpiritHalloween the last few years.

Wow, we don't have a Spirit around..... I'd be better off with the sitting, watching, waiting type of vulture due to low ceilings here. tee hee

Originally Posted by spooky little girl

vultures!!! I need vultures this year. Kept waiting for them to go on sale at big lots last year, but they never got to a decent price for the crap they were trying to sell. Perhaps I should try to make one.???

I made one once out of a pink flamingo I sprayed great stuff on it to bulk it up then painted the head red and covered the body in short pile black fur. It was a stretchy fabric so I just pulled it tight and stitched it up under the belly. Then with long pile white fur I added the collar around it's neck. It turned out great but I never got around to adding feet so I've never used it.