Vintage Inspired Halloween at Michaels

Hey everyone! So, it's been awhile since I've been on here. Mostly that's because I was without internet! The internet had been going out every week or two since late June. Things are up and running now, thankfully. Is anyone out there happy with their internet provider? Or even moderately OK with their internet provider? Or just not completely hating it? 🤣 I am very open to suggestions for a new one.

So, time for the first installment of the Michaels Halloween items! I say first installment because this blog post is going to be about the colorful, vintage-inspired stuff. The second post is going to be more themed around a certain topic I wanted to discuss anyway.

I see that I'm late to the party, judging by the other Michaels Halloween blog posts I saw up just now. Well, we can compare notes anyway. And for those of you who aren't following many other Halloween blogs, this can be some actual news for you! Haha.

I love the vintage look to the items this year. The classic black cat is always a winner with me.

Here's that cutie again, this time on a jar. I would love to have some t-shirts featuring these images.

This pumpkin is reminding me a lot of the real old time paper maché decorations I've seen in antique stores.

Some adorable ceramic containers:

And how about this vintage-inspired, blow mold looking pumpkin man!? I'm looking these pics over and thinking how Michaels will be seeing me again during their after Halloween sales.

A kitty cat candy holder (I'm assuming). Who else thinks this looks like the cat off The Simpsons? Remember Snowball the cat?

A crazed looking cat pillow:

I had to stand on my tip-toes to get this pic, because this welcome mat was up over my head. So I didn't even get to see how cool this was until looking at my camera screen. It reminds me of a Ouija Board. That was probably the intention.

An idea of a shelf layout with all that good looking orange and black:

I'm tucking away the idea of putting little pom poms on a house, because that's pretty cute.

And how great is this Victorian? This would be even better if the windows were cut out. Can't you imagine this as a massive candle holder?

Michaels had some cute Halloween miniature buildings out. Or in this case, the "Pumpkin Tilt-a-Hurl".

How about the "Garden of Eaten"? This looks a bit Little Shop of Horrors inspired... Check out that poor dude in the doorway!

The flies make a gross addition.

I like the fortune telling theme Michaels has gone with this year.

This is one of those "Squirrel Vision" pics I took from the floor up.

Same here. It turns out that "Squirrel Vision" was the only way to get some of these signs without a glare.

This just cracks me up!

Sort of in that similar vein, here's a bottle of Love Potion No. 9:

There were a few fun critters out in the store. These toads make me smile. I should mention that these toads and that love potion bottle appear much larger here than in reality!

The ultimate critter shelf! See my toad there? I have the green one. Looks like they're being made in black now too. Those snakes were massive. Massive and squishy. I gave one of their heads the squish test and was surprised that it was more like a stress relieving ball than a pillow.

These eyeballs look an awful lot like those that are sold by Grandin Road. These eyes felt like something between stone and resin. They were surprisingly cold to the touch.

Hehe.

So there's Michaels Halloween Part 1. What do you think? Pretty good stuff this year, hey? I haven't been to any other stores with much Halloween stuff out yet. Jo-Anns was starting to put things out, that harvest-type stuff. Other than that, I haven't seen much. Have you guys seen much Halloween at other stores?