Finding The Great Pumpkin//October 45th, 2020

One thing I’m pretty proud of when it comes to this blog, is that it hasn’t just become a collection of hauls. I tried Halloween blogging several years ago (on LiveJournal...) and never felt like I had much to talk about if I wasn’t showing off something I’d recently bought. It actually got to the point where I think I may have been buying things just for the sake of having something to talk about on that blog. That was something I promised myself wasn’t going to happen again, once I had the idea to make a new blog.

However, sometimes there are things that you get that you just have to talk about!

When I was working on my post about my childhood belief in the Great Pumpkin, I ran across a decoration I’d never seen before, the Telco Motionettes Pumpkin Ghost! This guy literally was the epitome of my childhood vision of the Great Pumpkin, and he instantly became a grail item for me! I took one look at him and suddenly I was the child who couldn’t sleep the night before Halloween again, as I waited for the Great Pumpkin’s arrival.

This pumpkin turned out to be relatively rare. I recall the witches from the Telco Halloween line being around in abundance in my youth (and I will probably buy one someday, because the nostalgia is real) but I never knew there was a pumpkin. It took me a long time to finally find one in a price range I was comfortable with, but just before leaving for my trip to Sleepy Hollow, I finally did!

Fun fact, my lens was a little blurry when I took this but I think it makes him look quite ethereal. Appropriate for a Great Pumpkin, isn’t it?

You may notice the skull he’s holding isn’t his original one, but honestly, I like the addition of the little treat pail more. This brings him closer to my childhood vision of the Great Pumpkin, carrying treats for true believers on Halloween Eve. I know some people are very particular about the condition of their vintage Halloween pieces, but I love running across things that have an extra little bit of character to them. I feel like this pumpkin, the only one of his kind to hold a treat pail instead of just a tiny skull, is the one that was truly meant to be mine and bring my childhood story to life.

If you want to see this guy in action, I have a little video on Instagram. My fellow 90s Halloweenies, was that not the soundtrack to our childhood Halloween experiences? I feel like every decoration made during a certain time period made that noise. I even had a watch with the same sound.

It’s an interesting feeling, all these years later, to look at my shelf and see the Halloween icon of my childhood staring back at me. Pumpkins with ghost bodies (Or maybe they’re ghosts with pumpkin heads?) will always, always have a special place in my heart thanks to my childhood depiction of the Great Pumpkin, but I think this particular one will always be the most special of all for me.

Stay spooky, my friends.

I'm Not So Sure About This Social Media Thing//October 94th, 2026

I started this blog six years ago on New Year's Day. I had been through some major life changes in 2018/2019, and really found myself along the way. I felt as though I really had cemented a place for myself within the Halloween community on social media, and often, when I would caption my posts on Instagram with snippets of memories, or a specific feeling that maybe not many others could understand, I would get comments and messages from new friends and followers, complimenting the way I wrote, sometimes even asking for more, and so, the idea to start a blog again was born, and, silly as it may sound, I am very proud that I've managed to stick with it as long as I have. Long work hours, personal problems, bouts of anxiety and depression....none of that has ever fully stopped me from coming back and doing what I love. But, lately, I have been feeling a little off about social media in general, and that's something I really would like to talk about, as I feel it taking a to...

Here’s Where The Story Ends//October 337th, 2020

Everyone has moments in their life when they feel like giving up. That feeling of “This is never going to happen, so why keep trying?” Sometimes it relates to a thing that would be trivial to anyone else, sometimes it’s about something more life-altering. But, we’ve all been there. I have moments of discouragement with this blog. Times I’ve told myself, “No one cares”, or “No one will read this”, etc., but I continue on, for the joy of it. And sometimes, something amazing happens. If you haven’t read my previous post, Have You Seen This Pumpkin? , I would strongly suggest doing so before continuing on with this story. The short version is, I saw a pumpkin in someone’s window when I was twelve years old, and have spent the last twenty-one years trying to find it for myself. When I published that post, I wasn’t expecting much of a response. I was really just hoping to hear someone say, “Yes, my family had this pumpkin when I was a kid!” Or “I once saw this in a neighbor’...

Tales From A Walk: April 5th, 2026; AKA Easterween/Creepster/Zombie Jesus Day, Etc.

Someone asked me once When do you stop mourning the previous Halloween and start looking forward to the next one? That's always been a hard question for me to answer, as I am always looking back or looking ahead, depending on the situation. I often see what was, and what will be again, simultaneously. But today, I went for a walk. Probably my first full walk since Christmas time. That last walk, the remnants were still there. Though it was a different holiday entirely, I still met some rotting pumpkins, and some dead leaves clinging to their brittle branches. Then two back to back winter storms came in February, burying us in two feet of snow both times. I don't know that I've ever felt more like I was in alternate reality, or farther away from Halloween. Today was different, though. When Easter comes, you hear all this talk of spring, and new beginnings, and that sort of thing. And I guess it never really hit me how that can apply to Halloween as well. Wal...

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