It’s Time For Halloween!

Janey · 2026-10-19T11:58:49+0100

We interrupt the road trip posts to bring you a look at the home all decorated for Halloween! To be perfectly honest, this year was the hardest yet. While I love Halloween, it is impossible to separate the holiday from death, and I am still reeling from the loss of my mom. I also left the Anaheim Fall Festival, which was a very difficult, but necessary choice. However I am looking forward to attending the event without the madness of having to help organize it.

As a result of my mom’s passing, I did inherit a few Halloween decorations, mostly Peanuts pieces, and they added a bit more warmth and whimsy rather than spooky and scary. Other new additions include two new spirit boards, an early 20th century writing planchette, and a vintage pop-up haunted house by Hallmark, which has been a holy grail l item of mine for sometime. If you’re new to my little corner of the internet, and have some hesitancy towards spirit boards, then I recommend checking out my History of the Ouija Board post.

Angled view of our living room decorated for Halloween.

Peanuts action figures make up the party scene from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Schroder plays the piano, Lucy dressed as a witch stands near the TV, and on the right is a bucket for bobbing for apples with Snoopy nearby.

View into the living room, with our fireplace on the right, above it hangs a shadow box filled with vintage Halloween decor.

Close-up of a shelf with a retro lantern, a die cut of a black cat with a skull, a small figure of a ghostly bride.

On the left is our TV with various jack o'lanterns on top, to the left is a built in bookcase with various decorations on it.

A record player sits on a console with various records nearby of the spooky variety.

A paper haunted house rests among plastic jack o'lanterns.

View of shallow shelves with various spirit boards on them.

View of one of the shelves, on the left is a blow mold scarecrow, in the middle are Peanuts action figures of the kids dressed as ghosts, on the right is a blow mold haunted house and behind all of it is an antique Ouija board.

Overall of our living room. In the foreground a console holds a record player and records, next to it is a yellow chair, in the background is the view of our TV with House on Haunted Hill on the screen. Hanging on the wall are various diecut Halloween decorations.

View of our TV with House on Haunted Hill on the screen. On top sits a spirit board with a Twilight Zone theme, featuring Rod Serling and icons from the show, it is surrounded by vintage plastic jack o'lanterns.

Action figures of Sally and Linus in a pumpkin patch.

View of our room divider that has a garland made up of vintage treat bags, below sit three different spirit boards.

Around the fireplace are multiple vintage plastic jack o'lanterns.

Close-up of the box for an antique writing planchette.

A unique spirit board, green, circular, with a large eyeball in the center.

Close-up of a small ornament featuring Donald Duck's nephews, Huey, Dewy, and Louie dressed up for Halloween.

Overall of the fireplace and built in bookcase.

Our corner table with various die cuts of jack o'lanterns, a scarecrow and owl.

Close-up of a small plastic haunted house painted green, purple, and turquoise.

Close-up of the display on top of our TV where a spirit board with a Twilight Zone theme, featuring Rod Serling and icons from the show is surrounded by vintage plastic jack o'lanterns.

Close-up of a vase that looks like Elvira.

Framed sits a cover of the Saturday Evening Post with a couple using a Ouija board. Next to it is a small blow mold of a jack o'lantern, and next to it is a standee of Snoopy dancing in a pumpkin patch.

View of the shelf in our dining room, stuffed with various vintage jack o'lanterns.

Close-up of a plastic witch next to a die cut of a haunted house.

An asymmetrical mirrored shadow box hangs above our fireplace. Atop sits a vintage blow mold owl, inside sits a small paper haunted house, a black cat, and some vintage noise makers with a Halloween motif.

Close-up of a Ouija board themed to Salem, Massachusetts, next to it sits a die cut of a ghost.

A spirit board themed to House on Haunted Hill sits on the valance above a window, also by it are four die cut black cats, and below a jack o'lantern banner hangs.

A small figural scene from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, a Sally and Linus sitting in a pumpkin patch, Linus has a sign that reads Welcome Great Pumpkin

Overall of a part of our living room, hanging on the wall are multiple die cut Halloween decorations, including an owl, a skeleton cat, jack o'lantern, and a cat with a moon. Below are various Ouija games stacked on top of each other.

Close-up of a red plush goat with a vinyl cartoony face.

Vintage lunchboxes, one features movie monsters, another has ghosts in a haunted house, next to them is a small blow mold of a black cat on a jack o'lantern.

View over our couch, with has plushies of a ghost, black cat, goat, and gargoyle, above are die cuts of black cats.

Another victim of being so busy and a bit depressed, is I will not be doing my annual sampling of my Halloween playlist. But if you’re new here, you can check out previous posts to hopefully add some fresh tunes to really get into the spirit of the season.

Sadly all three of the kitties were camera shy as we photographed over the weekend. Oh well! Can’t win them all. Are you decorated for Halloween? If you haven’t and are looking for tips on how to decorate using vintage Halloween decorations without damaging them, check out this blog post!

On the TV: The Haunting of Hill House.

It’s Time For Halloween!

Janey

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