Show off your Weekly Finds.

[charp13]

Splitty- I see you have some sweet new goodies for your Monster room, and I love it ALL! The mask is a real treasure! Great shopping job! And I also dig those trolls & the Agggh Real Monsters!
ChrisW- I have read about the mysterious Douglas Fir hack, and I also would be delighted to see what you do & read your directions. I am also getting up my courage to hack my polar bear with the moving head. I want to turn it into a werewolf, and this year I might just follow through! 

[jimm]

Ha! My little band played We Gotta Get Outta This Place as a last song at a bar in July. Some of the audience didn't think that was too cool...ha!

Next time try "Closing Time" 

[ChrisW]

I promise I'll document the steps to the hack. I have another project I want to do first - a rocking figure for an antique rocking chair I picked up. Found  good instructions on hauntproject.com. There are a few threads online about the douglas Fir hack - I just need to decide exactly what I want to do with it! I still haven't decided how I'm going to set up the new casket (thread in general discussion). Thinking of using the tree hack as the head for a figure within...maybe.

[robodog]

I gotta say I think the Labyrinth plates are a neat find. That was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.

[bigbud]

Hit the local antique mall with it's many individual booths today. Found this Halloween bag and thought it was interesting...has a 39 cents stamp on it. The entire front  image on the bag is thin plastic in high relief (molded to have dimension...not flat). Not all that spooky, but vintage Halloween none the less...This thin plastic doesn't usually age well....

[Monsters For Sale]

Very sweet vintage graphics.

[ilikemonsters]

Dig It !

[marsattacks666]

Really cool.

[Monsters For Sale]

I found a couple of these on eBay - But no more info about them.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=devil+angel+trick+or+treats&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xdevil+angel+trick+or+treat+bag&_nkw=devil+angel+trick+or+treat+bag&_sacat=0

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Those are cool on eBay, but they don't have the haunted house in the background or the spider hanging down from the side. They must be from another run of these bags.

[Monsters For Sale]

Those are cool on eBay, but they don't have the haunted house in the background or the spider hanging down from the side. They must be from another run of these bags.

I took such a quick look at them that I didn't even notice the difference.  Much cooler with the additional design elements.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Agreed. I'd buy that one for twenty bucks, but without the charming haunted house, bats and spider background, it's just not quite as cool.

[dlhenderson]

This is a "find" I acquired after my mother's recent death (she died in my arms).
As I went through a big box of thousands of photographs she had kept (some over a hundred years old), I found this.
I don't remember the pic being taken, but it must have been Christmas day (or it might have been my birthday).
Pictured: Mickey the Dog, me, and...well, You Know Who.
I started a thread a few years ago called "Show us your pedigree", which petered out pretty fast.
I'm happy to share recently excavated photographic proof of my Monster Kid roots. 
Cheers!
DL

[Count_Zirock]

This is a "find" I acquired after my mother's recent death (she died in my arms).
As I went through a big box of thousands of photographs she had kept (some over a hundred years old), I found this.
I don't remember the pic being taken, but it must have been Christmas day (or it might have been my birthday).
Pictured: Mickey the Dog, me, and...well, You Know Who.
I started a thread a few years ago called "Show us your pedigree", which petered out pretty fast.
I'm happy to share recently excavated photographic proof of my Monster Kid roots. 
Cheers!
DL

As cool as that picture is, I'm so sorry you had to find it under those circumstances. My own mother is 82, in very poor health, and I don't know how much longer she's going to last. She's in a rehab center right now, recovering from back-to-back strokes (Aug. 6 & 13). She was originally there recovering from a broken pelvis, and was supposed to come home on Aug. 7.

My mom was the one that encouraged my love of monster and horror movies. Dad didn't exactly discourage it, he just preferred Westerns and WWII movies. We always had two TV's in the house, because if a Western was on up against a monster movie, it was two against one! So, Dad would watch "The Seekers" in his room on the old B&W set, and Mom and I would watch "Tarantula" on the color set in the living room. (Dad eventually got a color set for his room, and I "inherited" the B&W set until it finally conked out.)

Mom also bought my Aurora model kits, and let me buy Famous Monsters, Vampirella, and Creepy magazines, even though they were more expensive than regular comic books. There are about a dozen old photo albums up in her closet that probably have similar pix to yours. And, I guess I'll be going through them, too, after she passes.

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[dlhenderson]

Those are some great memories, Count. Hang onto those.
My best wishes to your family.