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.

The Long Way Back//October 32nd, 2023

Every year I talk about November 1st...it's such a confusing day. It makes me feel so many emotions all at once. Mournful, depressed, angry...It's like a slap in the face shoving us into a new month, forcing us to forget what came just hours before. Last year, I did have somewhat of an epiphany regarding the month of November as a whole, and while I do my best to keep my own past words in mind, that doesn't make today any easier. Or easy to explain, for that matter. I suppose I should speak from my heart. Today I feel detached from reality, as if I don't really exist. Like there is no longer a place in the world for me. Just yesterday everything I loved made sense, and was loved and revered by everyone else as well. I felt like I fit. But now, today, I see those same things being quickly shoved away. Less than twenty-four hours after trick-or-treating time began, it's all being swept under the rug. The season culminated and the world is no longer a place I recog

The Spooky Community Has No Entrance Fee//October 288th, 2023

Something I’ve been seeing a lot this year around the Halloween community, possibly more than any other year, has been talk of consumerism, how much money spent on Halloween is too much, whether collecting is really that important or if it’s somehow required to truly be a part of the community, etc. I’m in no way trying to copy anyone else who’s already spoken on this subject, but I thought I would chime in and share my thoughts, as it is something I definitely think about. Now, I’ve always been relatively fortunate when it comes to how much money I have to spend on Halloween goodies. As a child, I often received money for my birthday, September 8th, at the height of the shopping season, at least as I knew it back then. No, it wasn’t enough to collect the way I do now, but it was enough to make me happy, and you also could get a lot more for a lot less back then. I didn’t necessarily stop to think about my “hauls”, but I knew even at a young age that there was nothing I’d rather be sp

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’s window while

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