By the time I actually get this posted it will officially be my favorite holiday, so Happy Halloween everyone!! I know it's terribly cliche, the girl with the macabre inclination loves the spooky holiday, but some things can't be helped. First of all it's a great excuse to get caught up on classic horror movies. I even get a kick out of the 13 Nights of Halloween on Freeform although I usually have to stop on day 3. There's only so many times I can watch The Addams Family and Hocus Pocus before I start going a bit batty. I adore going to haunted houses, even if I am the one who jumps the most out of the group every time. As soon as the Halloween stores open and the section pops up in Target, I make a stop there every visit. I can't tell you the amount of times I almost walked out the store with a skull just cause. I'm also a huge fan of the costumes, having that ability to be something other than yourself or to show a different side to your personality is such a fun thing. Granted about half of the time I don't actually dress up and the other half rarely works out the way I hope it will, but I still love the possibility.
I was trying to find an appropriate sticker for the evening but I don't seem to have a really spooky one ready at the moment. However I figured this sort of fall themed one was a good way to celebrate the holiday. Well at least I think it's "fall"ish. When I look at this great hand drawn piece I think scarecrow, which are a staple to Fall and Halloween. Traditionally used as a deterrent for crows and sparrows to keep them away from crops, examples can be found all over the world. They have also become very popular in pop culture, often in a sinister fashion. I mean there's the Scarecrow in the Batman comics, an episode of Doctor Who where scarecrows attack a British school, and countless other examples that even I was a little surprised looking a list of them all. There is just something eerie about those cloth faces hiding what is actually inside. I will admit that the longer I look at this sticker, the more I wonder about what it is. I swear that this looks like something out of a video game, something that I've seen pictures of people cosplaying as but wouldn't have a clue what they were. There is just something about the face that makes me think of a tribal mask of some kind. If any of you happen to know what I'm thinking of I'd love to hear it, just to see what it is. Before I sign off for the evening, I did want to quickly link to the other sticker on the sign. This 420 sign is a logo for a particular craft beer for a brewery. It seems like the most of my sticker finds any more are for beers, not that it's a bad thing just an interesting fact. Sweetwater Brewing Company is a brewery located in Atlanta GA and has been creating beer since 1997. The 420 Extra Pale Ale appears to be their most popular brew and is described as a West Coast style pale ale. Now to me this really doesn't mean anything. I know that Pale Ales tend to be a little lighter of a beer and something that I don't mind drinking as a change of pace. I will admit that while I enjoy craft beers, I really don't know the actual differences between the wide variety of types. So looking these stickers up is often an interesting adventure, reading a description and how it actually translates into a taste are typically very different creatures, making these bits of research a bit fruitless. Although it does typically peak my interest, and hopefully yours a little, enough to keep an eye out for them to give it try.
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skull kid
1/15/2019 04:19:34 pm
skull kid from the legend of zelda: ocarana of time. however, he's wearing majora's mask in this.
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Maggie Ondrey
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