Halloween 2022 New Stuffs : Bottle Brush Trees and cutesy picks!

Another New Halloween find for this year are these bottle brush trees from Dollar Quarter Tree!  I bought a whole forest!

It's been awhile since I have found new items that I love as much as I do these little trees!

Another super cute item that Dollar Quarter Tree had were these long wood picks:

Black Bats

Grey Skulls

 

New Halloween 2022: Hanging Ghouls

So here is something totally different for me...actually NEW stuff, like from a regular store, that has been mass produced and in the current year.

I bought these two hanging ghouls from Dollar General this year because they had that vintage classic Halloween vibe to their blow mold faces:

Now, of course the majority of their bodies are made out of cheap fabric crap but I think they could have potential for some crafting.

Another newbie is this mini witch ghoul that came from 1.25 tree:

I thought her head had a great vintage look, the rest of it is junk.

 

Can you Hoo-Doo? New Halloween 2022

About a year ago my favorite antique mall retired and everything was on sale.  I came across this neat game for 1 buck.  The box was sealed up with several ropes, chains, and pad locks so I wasn't able to peek inside at the contents.  Upon shaking the box I could hear lots of little plastic bits rattling around.  I was excited!  I figured it was like the Cootie game only you were making that cute egg headed Hoo Doo stick dude!

Imagine my disappointment when I got it home, chainsawed off it's restraints and saw this.....

We have like a hundred on this same type of game already....

At least the box is neat.

 

New Halloween 2022: Cupcake bits

Ok, so these items are fresh 2022 finds for sure.  Mr. Husband bought these plastic picks off of ebay.

 

New Halloween stuff 2022: JOL surprise and scarecrow

 

Yeah, again... I think I bought this at an estate sale maybe within this past year?

His lid opens up to reveal a green eyed kitty:

and another mind boggler.  

A bendy scarecrow:

Halloween 2022 New Stuff: Dennison seals

So another item that I don't recall where it came from, but I think I bought these at an estate sale a couple of years back.

Here is a scan for your crafting and viewing pleasure:

 

Halloween 2022 New Stuff : Grab Bag

Here is a cache of vintage Halloween items that I do not know where they came from.  I don't mean I don't know where they were purchased...I mean I literally found them inside my Halloween storage bins and don't know from whence they came. 

 

They are a bit 'new' for me so I know I would have not purchased them.

My best bet is they were given to us by friends, probably back in 2020?

 

Halloween 2022 new stuff : Yarn Pumpkin man

 

Like always here at MHIcTY, I like to kick off spooky season showing any new Halloween items that I have picked up over the year.  This year is going to be a bit different because I have not been hitting up thrift stores or estates sales much for the past year(s).  I actually haven't done a lot of Halloween decorating since 2020 so imagine my surprise when I started riffling through things this year and coming across stuff that I don't know where it came from.  This adorable vintage yarn witch I do recall buying off ebay for 5 bucks possibly in 2019 post Halloween season.

Apple Fall Display

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For the month of September I did up a Fall Apple themed display shelf.

Here are a few images:

 

Come on Fall!

 

I don't gage seasons by the dates, I gage by the temperatures.  And unfortunately for the south it's nasty hot humid "summer" nearly all year round here.  I yearn for a real Fall like in these glorious images.

The best I can do is recreate Fall inside my house. I've got my favorite Autumn ambiance videos of crackling bonfires and crickets playing,  a mug of apple cider, a cinnamon candle burning and the AC cracked down to 60.  I may even cover the floor with bags of faux autumn leaves to roll around in. 

 I am planning a ton of posts for the upcoming spooky season but you know what they say about best laid plans and not counting your chickens before they are hatched or believing in the fortune telling skills of the toothless carny down at the state fair.

Summer Break

 

I'm going to be taking a summer blog break.  

Everybody enjoy the sweltering heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, and sand in your ass.  I'll be someplace climate controlled, no phones/email, and getting these little kids to fast track build an alligator filled moat around my house. 

They see me mowing!

...my front lawn!

For my current display case I decided to do a yard work theme.

 I usually whine every year 'round about now concerning taking on our forsaken jungle hell weeds among the dreadful sweltering heat and mosquitos.

This display kinda makes me feel a little bit better and gives me a fantasy world of a beautiful vintage pert and perfect landscape.

Yes, in a perfect world we would have astro turf and little garden gnomes helping out with weeds and digging us a bunker!

Once all this is done maybe I can go bowl with the gangsters.

 

Roll on...Roly Poly

I bought my 1964 Airstream around 2002 with the full intention of using it for traveling, however it needed work on most of it's inner systems.  As life changed for me the function of the airstream also shifted.  Until I could fix it up I used it to store my ebay items I had for sale.   I considered turning it into a portable business for kid's birthday parties or as the backdrop for a little TV show a friend and I wanted to create. 

Then at one time I thought I may even have to live in it. 

 Ultimately it just became a really awesome looking storage unit.  At the beginning of covid I cleaned it out and decluttered it and the idea kinda started to seed that it may be time for it to move on.  It was starting to get leaks and it was wasting away.  I didn't have the funds to do a restore or have the skills/vehicle to pull it for camping.  Then when my mom passed away a few months later my thoughts about it did a drastic shift.  I didn't want my family to be burdened by having to deal with it when I am gone.  The day after Christmas 2020 we happen to have a young woman knock on our door who noticed the trailer in the backyard and offered to buy it.  She owns a business that buys and restores vintage trailers that she finds all over the states.  I hadn't even discussed letting it go to Mr. Husband so he was a bit shocked that I seemed to be entertaining the idea.  I told her it was on her to get it out of our yard and to deal with the title etc.  I would also need time to clear everything out of it yet again.  Since she agreed to all of this along with I wasn't going to have to list it or deal with copious people just wanting to look at it I agreed to sell it for really next to nothing.   It was very hard to let it go.  It was a part of my identity for 20 years.  But I know it was for the best.  I put together a little photo tribute here to Roly Poly.

These photos were taken when I first got it:

Look how shiny!

It came with all the original paperwork and owner's manual.

Here are the diagrams of the exterior and interior layout:

This brochure was among the papers.  I love its MCM look:

Here are the photos I took in march 2020:

The interior was never much of anything special looking because someone had yucked it up in the 1990s with carpet, beige paint, and blah fabric on the couch so I don't have any neat photos of that to share.

Here is a vintage post card that was mixed in with all of it's paperwork:

When the mover pulled the airstream out he had to drive it around the block to get it in position to put on the flatbed.  I can't tell you how happy I was to see it in motion and bopping down the road on it's own wheels.  It looked happy.

It's bittersweet I guess. 

Here are a few past posts where Roly Poly was featured:

In search of...Aliens

Skellimingos at ground zero

Deed's Multi-Slicer

I saved the best thing for last of the items we picked up on our mini road day trip to Alabama back in February.

The Deed's Multi-Slicer!

(Front of box above)

(back of box)

Only 5 bucks!

It also still happens to have the slicer!

Now truth be told I despise kitchen gadget uni-taskers such as this.  I bought it just for the box but perhaps I'll try it out when I forget how to use a knife.

Gift to you all!  I scanned the box for your crafting pleasure!

 

Plasticville 5 and 10

 During our road trip to Alabama back in February we stopped in at a super neat antique mall called the Vintage Emporium.

I came across this Plasticville 5 and 10 mini store model and had to have it.  I even spent more that my 6 bucks limit I usually have per item.  15 bucks!  But it's so freaking cute! 

I collect a lot of stuff but one collective category is items still in their original package that would have been from mid century 5 and dime stores.  I did a 3 month long series back in 2017 all about 5 and Dime merch and ads that starts with this post (just keep clicking "newer post" and you can view them all in order.)

I also have a Plasticville Super Market that is a smaller scale size.  Vintage food packaging is another of my things too!

Inflatable Hanger

 This week I am going to show a few things we picked up on a little mini road day trip we took to Alabama back in February.

We went to an estate sale, a thrift store and an antique mall.  I know we picked up more than 3 things but I can't recall what else and these 3 happened to be already photographed and loaded as drafts soooo....

This Mint in Package Inflatable hanger was from the estate sale.  It seems like it would be a really good idea to use for hanging up sweaters.  I'm just leaving it in the package as is for display.  I think it was 4 bucks.