Today, lets talk about the jack-o-lanterns! To me there is no other item that bring thoughts of Halloween to mind like the jack-o-lantern! Personally I have a great big loving spot in my heart for orange plastic jack treat buckets. My favorites go on display in little stacks.
These two are almost twins and are not as good for stacking so they are on display elsewhere in the house (I’ll have a little Halloween decorated house tour soon!)
Then of course I have the glass or ceramic jacks. Started far left is a candle I found thrifting, the next one was a gift from my friend Tracy, and the last two were thrift finds. I like that most of these guys look like they were made in paint your own pottery type of places.
And then of course we have the paper pulp jacks! You can see some nice reproduction ones up in the top photos. We don’t actually own any original ones because sadly they are usually pretty pricey and I’ve yet to find any in a thrift shop. However I am really in love with the designs by Season’s Gone By. Sadly from what I can tell, they are no longer creating reproductions. They were a business based in PA and I’ve been able to find one or two
articles about them. However their website is gone and their phone number is disconnected. Such a shame too as they offered really amazing reproductions at really reasonable prices. We found this one at a local antique shop. I read that they started writing on the bottom because people were removing the tags and trying to sell them as vintage….personally I am not a stickler about an item being vintage, I just adore the look of vintage things, so reproductions are fine by me.
I love your jacks! I have been on a hunt for them the last few years as well. I actually just found one of the one ones that doesn’t stack (smaller one in the picture above) this summer and was super psyched about him- he’s so unique! And I totally agree about the vintage vs. reproduction stuff- I love the look of the old stuff, but it’s way out of my budget. I’m jealous that you have so much out already- I’m a little behind this year, so it’s going to have to wait until this weekend to get pulled out. Happy decorating!
i’m the same way about reproductions and vintage. i don’t really care if it is actually old, i just like the look. but i can see shady people trying to sell those new ones at the sky high vintage price. there were four paper pulp pumpkins at an estate sale i went to recently, but i didn’t even see them. the first guy through the door scooped up all the vintage halloween. bummer.
Probably close to ten years ago I made my own vintage looking paper mache jacks from this great tutorial I found online. I’ve been trying to find it again without any luck, if I ever succeed I’ll post the link for you.
Success! I knew there would be a good reason to not delete my old blog–those archived links might come in handy some day.
http://www.ericamulherin.com/Projects/page_1a.html
thanks so much Donna!
I found some pumpkins for you, one’s the twin of another you already have. http://www.etsy.com/listing/111118124/vintage-pumpkin-planters-ceramic
caylie, awesome!! :)