Vintage Halloween Postcards

Vintage Halloween

Close ups from the Fireplace Mantel

These are Halloween stand up cut outs created from antique Halloween postcards. 

All of these were created from antique postcards except for the big skeleton man.
(but he's the same concept)
I did not make these. I purchased them from a lovely seller on ebay. (Gifts of Nostalgia)
I went today hoping to include a link to her auctions and found she has not sold on there since 2008.
Which is about when I bought my last one.

But these could easily be made by making enlarged color copies of vintage postcards and mounting
to thin particle board, then cutting out around them with a jig saw. Or mount to heavy cardboard...
if you'd like it to be an easier job and cut out with an ex-acto knife.
The bottom stand could be made of two pieces of quarter round, painted black and glued to each side. Then apply glitter liberally.

Cute little glitter straw mouse.

My friend, Shannon gave me three of these little guys last year. She does not celebrate Halloween.
Instead she celebrates Harvest but she loves to decorate for holidays and I knew she'd
eventually break down.
Last year one night before Halloween, I got to her house and found she had xmas trees on her porch
with little jack-o-lantern ornaments all over them.
I exclaimed upon seeing these...
"You broke down...you ARE celebrating Halloween!"

"No", she said, "These are Harvest Trees and those are just HAPPY PUMPKINS".

But I know they were jack-o-lanterns. I told her it was just a matter of time till she felt the need
to buy a skeleton.

She says, "Never".

"Yeah"...I said...."Like "Nevermore!"

(she didn't get the reference)

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