Okay...here's my updated list for the 2016 Secret Reaper!! (List will probably change before the end of sign ups, so check back!)
As some of you already know, we just bought a little Victorian house last month, tower/turret and all! This being said, we want to classy up our decor and give it some old time, fancy, Vintage and Victorian style with a touch of spooky/creepy/hauntedness! So, my dear Reaper, think of items that would work for that theme! We are easy to please! (I have a thread going over in the Off Topic section with pics of the new house, should you need inspiration.) For Fall I decorate in natural Fall colors and, for Halloween, I tend to gravitate towards orange and black, with touches of green, silver, white...basically, I don't use too much purple/red/blue in my Halloween decor, but don't mind those colors as accents on pieces. We decorate both indoors and outdoors. Outside we have a cemetery that we made all the stones and the fence. I have a pumpkin head scarecrow I made, too. I would like to have pumpkins/JoLs and such all over my wide front porch stairs and round railing that goes around the tower of the house.
*NEEDS:
Mercury Glass Items!!! Pumpkins, skulls, owls would top my list, though I'm sure there would be other Halloween/Fall shapes/styles I would like. Mercury glass Halloween bottles would be cool too! Mini ornaments or LED string lights done in MG is awesome, too! Oranges, greens, blacks, silvers and maybe browns...basically colors that would go well with Fall and Halloween decor. (I don't really need red, blue or purple unless they are in a set of mercury glass items that also happens to have those colors along with the colors I need.) **EDIT: I found a larger silver mercury glass skull, so if you wanted to buy another mercury glass skull for me, don't get silver, lol, or at least not a big silver one...little would be fine! A black or green skull would be cool to have. Silver for pumpkins, owls, ect. is still good, though.**
Anything that would go well with mercury glass, such as metallic or transparent colored glass pumpkins, skulls, owls, ect. in the same colors as above.
I just went to a HomeGoods and they had several little, inexpensive silver metallic pumpkins with cut outs and a scented sachet inside. I bought a little pumpkin one wearing a witch hat that had Vanilla Pumpkin scent inside. However, there were, also, two other silver pumpkin ones...one that I really, really, really loved that was a tall, thin silver pumpkin with a cut out JoL face and another smaller silver pumpkin with regular decorative cut outs. They had Vanilla Pumpkin and Apple Pumpkin scents inside of them, I think. I wish I had gotten those, too! I think there was a cool silver skull one, too, not sure of the scent in that one, though. I don't live near a HomeGoods, so if my Reaper lives near a HomeGoods, I would love another one of these!! They had them in the Halloween aisle and, also, over by the checkouts. (I like a lot of the fairly inexpensive items at HomeGoods, lol, both in Halloween/Fall decor and dishes/glasses!)
Fall leaves garlands, wreaths, swags, picks, ect. in lots of pretty, bright Fall colors with a strong base of oranges. Maybe some picks/wreaths/ect that have orange and black for Halloween, too!
Uncarved Funkins or similar brand pumpkins in different sizes. I have some medium/larger ones, so maybe some smaller ones?
Larger, closer to full sized, hanging, ghostly, tattered, white material/gauzy cloaked figures (maybe faceless with the hooded cloak, or something similar?) Definitely need some ghostly figures for my Victorian home!
LED string lights in purples and oranges. Must be LED for any lighting.
I am going to start a small, elegant, fancy table top Halloween Tree, so if you find any small or mini, elegant/vintage/victorian/traditional halloween/ect. ornaments that you think I might like, with orange/black/white/silver as the main colors, that would be cool. Nothing too crazy fragile, as I have cats, lol. A little glitter on an ornament is okay, but not covered in a ton that falls off everywhere. They need to be small enough to fit a 2 foot table top tree. The tree, itself, is black. A little, fancy tree skirt in black/orange colors could be needed, too. (If you are handy with making or sewing pretty ornaments, that would rock, too!!)
I love the Headless Horseman and have a small, black statue of him on his horse, a story book and a snow globe of him...love any HH items!! **I have been looking for one of those old fashioned chamber candle stick holders that you carry that has a little base and handle. I need one in silver, oil rubbed bronze or black...just not shiny brass. One that has the glass hurricane candle cover would rock, but those are hard to find, so without would be great, too. (I have some pinned in my Indoor Halloween board if you want to see what I am talking about.) I want it for my HH display.**
I just dropped and broke my ceramic, metallic pumpkins I just bought from Dollar tree, this year. So, reaper, if you have a DT that has those, I could use some more of them. I had the gold and brown ones. (I loved the orange ones, too, but they all have a defect in them...a dent in the top.) DT is supposed to get some metallic ceramic skulls, too, so one of those in silver would be cool!!!!
I keep seeing those black lace Halloween lamp shade covers in stores (spider webs or bat prints)...I never buy them for myself, though. I have two lamps in my living room, so two matching ones of those would be awesome to get!!
*GENERAL LIKES:
Witchy stuff (Not super ugly, deformed witches with like, missing eyes and such, lol. I prefer pretty, sweet looking witches, or traditional Halloween witches, natural witch/magic stuff, ect.)
Cats!!
Owls!!
Pumpkins/Jack-O-Lanterns!
Anything Fall/Harvest (especially natural things like pumpkins, apples, grapevine, berries, acorns, hay bales, burlap, corn, spooky trees, fall leaves, ect.)
Ghosts
Skeletons/Skulls
Bats
Spiders (I really like the posable, black fuzzy spiders)
Rats/mice
Crows/Ravens
Vintage Halloween...(especially with witch, cat, owl or pumpkin prints) It can be real vintage or vintage look/inspired new stuff.
Halloween dishes, glasses, mugs, ect.!
I love Pyrex! I'm always looking to up my collection. I love both the newer, fun Pyrex Halloween covered dishes and bowls (I got some at target last year for a fairly cheap price...a ghost covered dish and a cat covered dish) and I love Vintage Fall/Halloween colored Pyrex dished and bowls...like ones with black and/or orange patterns or solid ones.(Check my Pinterest in Indoor Halloween)
I really, really love scented wax cubes/tarts and jar candles: Autumn scents like pumpkin, apples, caramels, leaves, campfire/marshmallow, harvest, spice,
vanilla, cranberry, ect. (No pillar or taper candles that my cats could knock over, please. Also, not the air freshener brands like Glade or
Febreeze...we don't care for those) (I have a Pinterest board for candles and scents, too!)
I am addicted to Bath & Body Works/White Barn Fall/Halloween items!! Candles, candle holders, lotions, soaps, ect. Same scents as above.^^
Book related to Halloween info and traditions, ghost stories, ect.
Scarecrows: spooky/creepy burlap or pumpkin head ones.
Halloween socks...fuzzy, crew, or knee high
Cute is okay if it's something you think I will really like, just not overly cute/kiddish or too much of it. (...though cute owls and kitties are always acceptable!)
Painted wooden crafty items and other assorted crafty items/props you all make so well!
I especially would like one of those wooden subway art wall hangings that has all sorts of Halloween/Fall related words painted on them.
I know some of you like to send treats and Halloween toys for our pets, which is cool with us! We have four kitties...One boy and three girls!!!
Halloween hot chocolate packets are fun!
ADDITION: Since we moved to a more populated area, we may have quite a few more ToTs this year than we are normally used to. I like to make up goodie bags with chocolate, toys and stickers or such. If my reaper happens upon any large bags/packages of little Halloween toys, mini bats, rats, ect. for a super cheap price, that could be helpful little box filler, lol. Nothing expensive, though. I picked up sticker boxes, but haven't found a good deal on little toys, yet. Just a thought!
DISLIKES & DON'T NEEDS:
Clowns/dolls, Zombies, Gore/gross stuff, Bugs (except Spiders), Satanic things, Aliens
*I'm a vegetarian, so no dead animals or animal parts, including real leather, real bone, ect. please!!*
Movie characters such as Freddie, Jason, Saw, ect.
Don't need Pirate, Scientist, blow molds
No glitter, unless it's firmly sealed and can't fall off.
Potion Bottles...I have so many of them. (unless its a cool mercury glass one! Nothing with dead animal parts on the label, though, like wing of bat, ect. I am a nature loving witch!!)
I also have a Pinterest page with quite a few Halloween/Fall/Witchy boards you can peek through!
https://www.pinterest.com/bdnd05/
**Honestly, I have a lot of things I love that I probably forgot to put on this list...so, you can use the above list, or you can scroll through all of my Pinterest boards and such for additional ideas for me!! Have fun with it!!**
I have random albums on my profile page, too, if you are curious...though they are from my old house, so just look at the decor, not the house/yard, for ideas!
Thank you, in advance, my wonderful Reaper!! Hugs!!
