Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en


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Full of spooky artworks, ephemera, vintage-inspired makes, rhymes, and stories, Creating your Vintage Hallowe’en celebrates the folklore and traditions surrounding this delightfully unique holiday. Read how folk used to celebrate with dressing up, fortune-telling games, parties, and much pleasurable spookiness, and recreate your own vintage Hallowe’en with old-fashioned projects, including a carved Jack o’ lantern, a witch costume, and fun decorations for your home. Creating your Vintage Hallowe’en is packed full of little-known facts about the origins of Hallowe’en customs such as bobbing for apples and carving lanterns out of pumpkins, while the charming makes and vintage artworks featuring chubby, red-cloaked witches, sleekly silhouetted black cats, cute kittens, cheery goblins, and smiling spectres, will inspire you to have your own vintage-style Hallowe’en celebration.




Vintage Halloween Collectibles


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This is a must-have guide for the serious collector of Halloween memorabilia, and anyone who would like to price a piece found at a flea market or in an attic. The detailed captioning is unmatched in any other Halloween price guide. Every piece is photographed, and every piece is captioned with basic information. &break;&break;Over 700 photographs &break;Every entry is accompanies by a photograph &break;Price is given for the condition shown &break;Tabbed to make it easy to find the section you're looking for




Halloween in America


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Next to Christmas, more money is spent on Halloween decorations and novelties than on any other holiday. This wonderful book has been credited with inspiring the Halloween collecting craze, giving its devotees a chance to celebrate the holiday all year round! In addition to color photography and a brand new price guide, there are also many fascinating insights into Halloween. Most people are familiar with the symbolsghosts, Jack-O'-Lanterns, witches, bats, skeletons, and black catsbut few know about Halloween's past. Why does it exist? What is the origin of trick-or-treating? Why does it fall on October 31st? Through these pages you will experience Halloween celebrations of the past and take a look at Halloween today. For collectors, this is one of the largest collections of Halloween memorabilia.




Vintage Halloween


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Halloween Crafts


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Dead pumpkin's society: school ghouls, potted pumpkins, scarecrow wreath, glass goblin wreath, quick-fix berry vine wreath, instant ancestors, Gaelic cross, witch clips, kitchen witch night-light, corn on the cob night-light, clay pot candle holder, those amazing maize brothers, Hallowe'en hoop-la, Spook Nest Inn, the gourd guys, old-fashioned party fans and favors, canned Hallowe'en, party hat lights.




Vintage Halloween


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Full of black and white photos of vintage Halloween images with commentary.




Bethany Lowe's Folk Art Halloween


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Contains ideas and instructions for decorating the home and creating craft projects for Halloween in folk-art style, and includes information on materials, tools, and techniques, as well as patterns and templates.







Old-Fashioned Halloween Cards


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The 24 full-color cards in this captivating collection include now-rare illustrations by two popular artists of the period: Ellen Clapsaddle and Frances Brundage, whose rosy-cheeked and startled youngsters became their trademarks.




Create a Bewitched Fall-o-ween


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Serving a cauldron full of creepy autumn crafts, this project book features a new recipe for Halloween fun. Projects use step-by-step instructions to help crafters adorn every part of their home and yard with festive creations. From a Fun Fur Spider crawling up a living room wall, to a Mummy wreath decorating the front door to a "Not So Grim" Reaper to watch over the backyard garden, readers will create a boo-tiful display! Gorgeous photography is set in such historic homes as the Victorian Rose Bed & Breakfast in Ventura, CA, and silent film star Francis Lederer's estate.