Halloween
10.31.06 By Lorraine Newberry
Happy Halloween! Behind Christmas, Halloween is the holiday people most love to decorate for. Over the years in our house we’ve come up with a nice collection of Halloween knickknacks. My favorite is the beautiful jack-o-lantern wall hanging that my talented mother-in-law made, but my kids go for the scary skull with a candle inside.
Halloween collections are easy to grow - every year there’s something new and different. One of our neighbors has such a huge collection of Halloween stuff that their home is known by all the kids as “that Halloween house.” In the front yard there are 10 foot hight blow ups of ghosts, pumpkins, witches and goblins. They have a faux graveyard and skeletons driving a broken down antique buggy. Spooky hands dance around the garage and an electrical rat races towards the sound of a voice. Inside, there’s more spooky stuff, including an entire miniature Halloween village. It all started with a single jack o’lantern and grew. When friends and relatives find a fun Halloween ornament they immediately think of this couple. The local newspaper has featured photos of their yard on the front page. It’s the one house that everyone makes sure to hit for Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night.
Looking for more info about Halloween collecting? Here’s a website with lots of photos of vintage Halloween decorations and other spooky stuff. http://www.spookshows.com/ .
And here’s another site with photo galleries of Halloween collectibles: http://collectibles.about.com/od/halloween/ig/Halloween-Collecting/index.htm
In case you missed them, there have also been some great blogs right here on Collector’s Quest lately about vintage costumes and Halloween candy.
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