Vintage Halloween Noisemakers at eBay #4

More festive styles of noisemakers you can find at eBay!

Fairly inexpensive and fun! The BH&G issue features a few in their vintage collectibles article--the Chein cats can be spendy.

Jenn:)

Martha Stewart Halloween Magazine

Cute idea for pumpkins with the old fashioned style paper inserts!

I've gone through my Halloween Martha Stewart issue and it's a nice mix of some previous magazine ideas and new items! There are some great crafty ideas for favors and the costumes are great. Very nice clip art as well. Very inspiring for haunting your spooksters as always!

Jenn:)

BH&G Halloween Issue Preview

This weekend, while out shopping, I picked up several Halloween/October theme magazines. Better Homes & Gardens Special Halloween issue is out and full of festive things. There's a nice but short piece on vintage Halloween with information and tips from Mark Ledenbach. Shown below are pages from the article.

Other things of note include some carving tips for pumpkin carvers, and some gothic haunted Halloween ideas. All the candy and goodies make me hungry :)

Jenn:)

Martha Stewart Halloween issue

Soon to be on newsstands--and in some areas already out--is the new Martha Stewart Living Halloween issue. Check out Martha's costume on the cover. I'm not sure if the material inside is all new or some new and reprints of magazine ideas. Looking forward to it!

Jenn:)

Matthew Mead's Monster Book of Halloween

If you didn't pick up Matthew Mead's Halloween book from last season, he's got a new one out this year: Matthew Mead's Monster Book of Halloween. It features a lot of the previous book's frightfully fun tricks and treats, but also some new material that's worth picking up. It's available now in stores. I picked mine up at Barnes & Noble.

Jenn:)

Halloween and Vine

The 14th annual Halloween and Vine show will be held in Petaluma, CA - Sept. 26. Visit their website for more details! There will be lots of artisans and experts on hand. I've always wanted to attend, hopefully next year in 2010 we'll be there.

Jenn:)

Martha Stewart Crafts Added to the Shop! & $5.00 Ship Special

$5.00 standard shipping special through 9-15 at the store!

We've just added Martha Stewart Crafts to our store! Lots of new goodies this year with a vintage style witch/icon theme and a Mad Scientist theme. Plus all the usual suspects! Great favor bags and boxes, punches, and scrap papers. Decorations and picks. A nice mix. Here's some samples:

Haunted House Wine Labels

Witch Favor Bags

Festive Scrap Paper Pad

Mad Scientist Favor Bags

Jenn:)

New Charm Bracelet Styles Added to Store

Just added new styles of charm bracelets to the store! More coming in the next couple of weeks. Enjoy!

Trick or Treat & Grinning Jols

Jenn:)

Taste of Home Halloween Magazine

Taste of Home magazine's Halloween issue is now available. It features lots of recipes and projects. One project I enjoyed was the paper lanterns--which you could design in so many different ways with the instructions they provide--shown below:

Jenn:)

Vintage Halloween Noisemakers at eBay #3

Cute witch. Bad witch! This noisemaker has it all. Found recently at eBay.

Clickers are fun. They came with a nice variety of images and even varied in shape and size.

Jenn:)

Fall/Halloween Magazines To Look Out For

Halloween & Harvest are about upon us! Start checking your stores for magazines coming out. Country Sampler's current issue has a few Halloween items picutured including some neat items from Johanna Parker's Halloween lines.

Now at our website most of the Halloween/Holiday magazines (like the one pictured below - Country Home Oct. 2008) are now $1.00!

Jenn:)

Martha Stewart Pumpkin Clock

Ronda at Old Fashion Halloween mentioned the neat items for GrandinRoad from Martha Stewart Living. These are really neat. Especially the witch yard decorations. I like the pumpkin clock as well, featured on last year's October issue. A real pumpkin clock will rot, this one will last spooktacularly!

Jenn:)

Yankee Candle Witch Tea Light Holder & Martha Stewart Candle Creatures

This cute little tea light holder from Yankee Candle is a delightful item for your Halloween decorating!

Here's a cute little project from Martha Stewart Living: Candle Creatures:

Jenn:)

Vintage Halloween Noisemakers at eBay #2

Highlighting several fun noisemakers seen at eBay!

Noisemakers with wooden handles are more vintage than those with plastic ones.

Jenn:)

New Halloween Items at Michaels

Michaels has their Halloween Lemax pieces out as well as the other items that are typically displayed around the Lemax and on the end cap. They have a lot of skull items this year. They didn't have the rest of the items out just yet, but they're starting to get them in. I didn't see a lot of vintage style stuff or that vintage flair. Kind of disappointing!

Here's a cute Lemax piece called "Witches Laundry Day"

This tassle is quaint

Jenn:)

Vintage Halloween Noisemakers at eBay #1

The Countdown to Halloween Begins!

For those of you who collect vintage noisemakers, eBay is great place to find average and easy to find noisemakers and those harder to find pieces. And most are pretty inexpensive to collect. If you're trying to decide whether or not to jump in and build a vintage Halloween collection, noisemakers are a great starting point from which to build and branch out.

Noisemakers were relatively very inexpensive toys to purchase back in the day. I enjoy collecting the metal ones especially from makers like Kirchhof, US Metal Toy, and Chein. Visit our noisemaker section at our website to learn more and see some examples of festive noisemakers and how to make your own barrel noisemaker.

I'm going to highlight noisemakers found at eBay between now and Halloween here at the Blog, to show you some of the variety that is out there to collect.

Happy Collecting!

Jenn:)

Festive Beistle Products!

Our festive Beistle Party Items are in stock! From old-time cutouts to orange/black tissue fans and balls and great tissue fringe. The old-time cutouts are my favorite--takes me back to the old school Halloween carnival days!

Jenn:)

2009 New Halloween Items!

Now adding lots of new items for 2009 from our line, Bethany Lowe, Beistle, B. Shackman...Pre-orders too. View more at our Vintage Halloween Website! Here's a preview of some of them:

Jenn:)