Below you’ll find my wish list for Halloween items for 2022! I’ll try to add here when I come upon something that I really love and plan on getting or hunting for soon.
Skeleton Croc - Target
This is going to be a must for me. I want two but who knows due to space I may be forced to get one. Perfect for a bayou scene!
Link @ Target
More to come!
I'm back with my first update for 2022. Since my last post, we have moved and a lot has been going on. The first thing is I planned on having a haunt warming party to celebrate our new home and being here a year in October, but things have sort of happened and it may make that idea not so great as I had hope. The big news is I'm PREGNANT! Therefore, all my spooky and crazy ideas for this year may not even happen. I have no idea what we will do. I am leaning toward maybe a falloween themed house warming instead so I don't have to get too crazy with the decor or maze(which may not happen.)
As for the Halloween craziness, I've already made a few Halloween purchases: LINK
Apprently, I'm a fool and can't figure out how to embed a code without adding all the extra gibberish Instagram adds on so it won't work here. You can just click the link above to see my latest purchase!
More to come!
This year we attended our first trunk or treat. Normally, I would not be too interested in this type of event. However, now that I have a son any activity, especially an outdoor one becomes a good option for us!
So my husband’s work had a cook out and in the evening they planned on spooky activities. Although we arrived late, (20 minutes til event end) we were able to go “trunk or treating,” got a free pail of candy for our son, snowcone, food, and treats. We did miss the last hayride but it was probably for the best.
The best part about it was I was able to quickly throw open my trunk and set up a ghastly ghoul and non-candy treats. It’s all I had in a pinch but I had some awesome goodies. I threw open a pack of zombie fingers and those were a total hit. I even had people come and ask where they came from because more kids wanted them.
I ended up running out but giving one kid some other finger puppets I had and another girl’s dad even chased me down asking if I had found some more. I hadn’t and the poor dad sulked in disappointment. I had a cute Halloween plushie keychain that I bought for my son and I ended up chasing him down and giving it to him for his daughter. I felt like it was the right thing to do and boy was I right! The dad yelled “OH HELL YEAH!” Apparently even he understood how cute it was! I knew it was right thing to do if that was his reaction. I’m sure his daughter was excited about it too so that made me happy!
They even removed them from search from their website but I just used a trick to find them again. Haha!
Here are the two creepy crawly movies we have lined up to watch tonight. Eek!
Available to watch on Sling with a membership. 🕷
Aren’t these bags amazing? While on our family trip to the farm my husband found a Goodwill nearby and wanted to stop. It added a couple of minutes to the drive which left me annoyed and naturally I gave him a hard time about it. I decided to stop with the intention of only him getting off.
My neighbor left these goodies by my door the other day! I felt like I was opening a Halloween birthday gift! I can’t tell when these are from but I feel vintage vibes (1990s.)
Imagine my surprise when my husband took me to a local thrift store that I never knew about! It is half outdoors/half indoors (large open garage building.) At any rate, these gems were waiting inside for me:
This year I went back and forth on wanting these two items from Home Depot. NOTICE: These items are no longer available online or through search engines! I had to go find the photos I saved on my phone to post them here. Craaaaazy!
Long story short, I did not get either one and ended up getting several smaller items which I will get to in a minute. The reason I did not buy the scarecrow is because I saw someone post a real life photo of it online and it didn't look as menacing in person. I wasn't sold even though I still like it, it just wasn't the right time for me to get it. The giant anaconda was going to be my top choice but I had to pass it up due mostly because I will be moving to a house with a much smaller yard than I currently have. I don't see it even working in the new spot unfortunately.
NOTE: Online the web is listed as $150 but in person at the store, it is marked $99. I have no idea why.
Next we have my newest Jack-O'-Lantern!
And lastly, I bought this lil gal.
...and theres more but these are the main larger items for the time being. And last but not least, I will leave you with the next prop I wish to attain... hopefully within the next week somehow!
I mean, really! What a strange name for this but I'll take it! I have yet to see this prop in person and I'm currently being too cheap to pay for shipping on it. I hope I can find it in a store soon. This prop I actually saw on someones facebook photos they took at Lowe's and I knew as soon as I saw it, I needed to get it. It would add the perfect eerie glow to just about any scene and I think that's what makes it so versatile to me. Stay tuned to see if I'm able to find it!
I decided to update to post about my lack of motivation for creating anything Halloween related this year. Normally, by this time I'd be working on several projects for my haunted maze/back yard haunt. However, this year my motivation is severely lacking in part because I will be moving. I honestly don't know what the future holds for my haunts at this point. We're supposed to move right in the middle of October too! I have some Halloween items to share and a few videos in the works but no actual creations. I should be updating my blog more and when I'm lazy I'll just update my new Halloween instagram with new Halloween finds in the meantime. Take a look here!