A Vintage Hallowe'en

A day or two before Halloween, a package arrived on my doorstep! And it was a most thoughtful gift from two of my favorite Halloween Heads from the Cornfields of the Midwest. Mr. & Mrs. Dustwitch have been friends of mine for several years. We met on Myspace, back when we actually still did the Myspace thing...ha! And it was Mr. D himself who introduced many of us to 'vintage' Halloween music. He had a music page then that that had all the old greats from Kay Starr, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, etc. Now I've always loved Glenn Miller, but I didn't know about other old vintage Halloween music from these artists until I heard them on his page. And I cannot thank him enough for sharing that with the rest of us Halloween lovers.
Needless to say, we became fast friends over our mutual love for all things Autumn and Halloween. And I've had the pleasure of staying in touch with he and his beautiful wife for several years. As it turns out, they are both into antiques which is no surprise considering Mr. D's love of Vintage Halloween Memorabilia. His collection is really amazing. And his creative wife makes the most lovely holiday displays with their vintage collections.

So anyway, they attend a lot of antique shows and estate sales where they often luck into some really fab vintage Halloween finds. And they have been so very kind in gifting me with some terrific items over the years. So now, thanks to my friends, I have some Halloween Ephemera in my Halloween Collection too. They usually try to find me things that are Witch or Gypsy related. I try to reciprocate of course, but it's really just impossible to ever match anything in the vintage department, because I am not an avid collector, so I hardly know an original from a reproduction. Not to mention, anything I would ever find, they'd probably already have it anyway. So I hand craft them things periodically, or send a reproduction that I think looks cool or perhaps a retro inspired book with retro graphics on it. But I feel like I can never really match the treasures they find to send to me. I do try, and I know that they know that my resources here are limited. I mean I can hardly find true vintage Halloween items around here period, let alone any that aren't a fortune. And even then, I'm really not studied enough to know if they are even authentic or not.
Anyway, I just wanted to post some pics of the fab things they've sent me over the years. I figure any lover of Vintage Halloween will enjoy the images. And I wanted to publicly thank them from the bottom of my 'not so wicked' lil' heart for thinking of me, and being so generous to share their collection with me. You guys are the best! Big Halloween hugs to you both! :o)