Australian here! Any fellow Australians have any tips on decorating with our nations limited options for Halloween?
DIY's are welcome or any shops you know what have good stuff would be great!
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Craft would be our usual stores: Bunnings (Esp. construction isle), Amazon, spotlight & Lombard’s (or even Office works if desperate for paper).
Affordable craft items may be: Cardstock for shapes/silhouettes, hazard tape, construction zone/zoning items (Lights, orange mesh, caution/danger tapes), basic wood palings or if more premium, cypress planks, sleepers for bases (or concrete set in bucket), spray/liquid paints, etc.
Here are a few places for buying premade items:
Consistent:
Lombard’s (The Paper People) – Moderate animatronics, static items, costumes. Limited 50% off several times a year.
Spotlight – Smaller nick-nacks, very basic items, costumes
Costco – Big animatronics $$$ / larger props – limited batch
TK Max – Home Décor (Halloween themed)
Online:
Costumes.com.au
Halloween Alley (By the party People) – online only in 2021 / limited import stock (See FB)
Amazon/eBay AU
Inconsistent:
$2 Shops (i.e.: I Heart This Store, Uncle Bucks, The 2 dollar Superstore {Westfield shopping centres}, etc)
$2 super stores (i.e.: Dollar King)
Savers
Party Super stores (Generic)
Diaso ($2.80 store)
Affordable craft items may be: Cardstock for shapes/silhouettes, hazard tape, construction zone/zoning items (Lights, orange mesh, caution/danger tapes), basic wood palings or if more premium, cypress planks, sleepers for bases (or concrete set in bucket), spray/liquid paints, etc.
Here are a few places for buying premade items:
Consistent:
Lombard’s (The Paper People) – Moderate animatronics, static items, costumes. Limited 50% off several times a year.
Spotlight – Smaller nick-nacks, very basic items, costumes
Costco – Big animatronics $$$ / larger props – limited batch
TK Max – Home Décor (Halloween themed)
Online:
Costumes.com.au
Halloween Alley (By the party People) – online only in 2021 / limited import stock (See FB)
Amazon/eBay AU
Inconsistent:
$2 Shops (i.e.: I Heart This Store, Uncle Bucks, The 2 dollar Superstore {Westfield shopping centres}, etc)
$2 super stores (i.e.: Dollar King)
Savers
Party Super stores (Generic)
Diaso ($2.80 store)
I end up making alot of props, you just can't buy alot of things. That said there is a great store in Adelaide that stocks alot of animatronics and smaller props that I go to. We just got a TK Maxx so I'll be interested to see what they have.
Costume.com.au has a great range, but a lot are marked as 'coming soon'.
Costume.com.au has a great range, but a lot are marked as 'coming soon'.
Great imagination and good DIY skills.
both of which I'm lacking 😆
A few of the online stores are getting some reasonable props this year, though nothing like those lucky Americans and their Home Depot.
Here's a great big list
Jokers do a pre-buy on a lot of their stock, eg: pay now and get it in September
both of which I'm lacking 😆
A few of the online stores are getting some reasonable props this year, though nothing like those lucky Americans and their Home Depot.
Here's a great big list
Jokers do a pre-buy on a lot of their stock, eg: pay now and get it in September
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