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Trick-or-Treat 2021: October 31st Vintage Halloween Inspired Collection Full Reveal!

7/12/2021

Can you believe it's been an entire year since last years Trick-or-Treat collection was released?!?!

Well after many, many months of designing, planning and making, I am so pleased to reveal this years brand new collection!

This collection has been a true labour of love and I wanted to put as much vintage Halloween influence into this collection as I possibly could. I absolutely loved last years range and was over the moon to see it sell out so quickly.

There are a small number of returning products from last years range and they are the extremely popular Haunted House Mug, Trick or Treat Pencil Case and the Black Cat Fortune and Witch Game, although these two have had a slight makeover.

The new collection includes products that have never been available through October 31st before as well as a small number of these products being handmade and limited edition.

So let's cut to the case and check out Trick-or-Treat 2021!

Slim Tin Signs

These slim tin signs are available in four different designs. The Have a Spooky Night sign features adorable and playful ghosts. It's Just A Bunch of Hocus Pocus tin sign is inspired by a vintage noise maker with a 1993 Halloween classic film twist. The black Trick or Treat sign features trick or treaters on Halloween night and the orange Trick or Treat sign features a flying witch and spooked trick or treaters too!

Small Tin Signs

These four tin signs are some of my favourite designs. The Trick or Treat sign is a recreation of a vintage Trick or Treat bag with original designs by myself. October Greetings is a gorgeous blue tin sign inspired by a vintage advertisement. Admit One Haunted House ticket sign is perfect for decorating your home this year and finally the Witch Game is back!

The new game is smaller and has been adjusted slightly to take into account the smaller size.

Stickers

New stickers will be available in three designs. The Admit One Haunted House design will be available as a sticker and matching tin sign along with the smartly dressed Top Hat Pumpkin Man and the Trick or Treaters from the black slim tin sign are also together on a sticker too!

Square Prints

These Square prints are printed onto medium heavyweight card and feature Trick or Treat Jack o'Lantern bucket, Pumpkin Scarecrow and Moon and Witch design.

Pennants

Vintage Halloween Pennants are making their debut! Available in two designs, these handmade pennants feature a Flying Witch or Black Cat!

Trick or Treat Game

This was so fun to design and put together! This large tin game has an attached spinner which will give you a trick or treat when spun. The tricks are small things like standing on one leg and the treats are compliments and positive fortunes.

Planchettes

While designing this collection I kept falling in love with new designs and these are definitely within my top ten favourite things i've ever designed and had made. These planchettes are made from wood, printed and laser cut with three different designs. These will all be available individually and in three designs; a Candy Corn, Jack o'Lantern and Ghost!

Spirit Board

Another favourite of mine is this Spirit Board! Using designs from last year and this year, I mixed these two years together to create this stunning Spirit Board. The board has a faint Jack o'Lantern behind the text and a worn look across the whole thing to make it appear slightly aged.

This Spirit Board will be available in two sizes. The larger size will be available to the UK only and the smaller Spirit Board will ship worldwide.

Postcards

These four new postcards will be available individually and as a set (for a cheaper price) You'll be able to get your hands on a Witch, Owl, Witch House and returning from last year the Black Cat Fortune print is back as a postcard too!

Ghost Patch

This patch is the first ever patch ive had made and I absolutely love it! The ghost and Jack o'Lantern design is one of my favourite designs for this years range and he looks even cuter as a patch.

Pins

These pins will be available in a Ghost and Jack o'Lantern designs and a Witch Hat Pumpkin design!

Notepad

One thing I wanted to include in this years collection were vintage Halloween masks. I did have quite a few ideas for the masks but sadly when the design process started the mask designs were put aside (for now) but that doesn't mean I abandoned them entirely! Instead I created a new notepad that gives off the appears of a vintage style mask display box.

Mugs

Who doesn't love a good mug? Even more so when it's a spooky mug! Three new mugs will be available in a Trick or Treat Jack o'Lantern Bucket, Triple Ghost and Trick or Treaters designs!

Jars

These two jars were one of the very first products that came to mind when designing this years collection and I absolutely love how they have turned out!

You'll be able to grab them in a Pumpkin Spice Ale and Black Cat Brew designs.
Please note these jars will only be available within the UK and will not ship worldwide due to the risk of damge.

Lanterns

Out of all the products in this collection, these lanterns took the longest to make but they were so worth it. They were also the first product created for this years range. These handmade lanterns will be available in a Black Cat and Jack'o Lantern design and are perfect for placing a tealight candle inside.

Greeting Cards

Three new greeting cards will be joining the three releases from last year too! You can grab a Boo-Day card, Happy Hauntings (perfect for new homes) and a Eek, Shriek and Be Scary card.

Die Cut Decorations

Want to decorate your home for Halloween this year? Then grab these heavyweight card die cut decorations! Available in Ghosts, a Witchy Pumpkin, Black Cat and Happy Halloween Designs!

Candles

These packs of orange Halloween Candles contain ten candles each and are housed in handmade boxes. The boxes have different hand-carved Jack o'Lantern faces too!

Badges

A new collection would not be complete without new badges and so there will be five new designs available. These will be sold individually or as a set of five, at a cheaper price.

Halloween Poem Tin Sign

One more product will be revealed this week and it features the very first design for the Trick-or-Treat 2021 collection. Check back later this week to see what it is!

Thanks so much for reading this article! I actually share a whole load of Halloween things on my instagram so if you'd also like to follow my daily (almost) updates then head on over to HERE. You can also follow on Facebook now too!

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Hocus Pocus: Exploring The original Script! Part 2

7/12/2021

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Part two of exploring the original Hocus Pocus script is here and once again it's bursting with all kinds of alternate and deleted scenes, different lines and more!

Part 1 ended right when the kids were about to enter the Sanderson Sisters house and so let's pick up right where we left off and see what changes occur next...

The first change from the script to screen is that in the script, the house sits atop a hill which the kids all climb up to. In the film it appears the house is actually deep in the woods.

They reach the Sanderson House where the old sign sits outside, it's all overgrown and peeling. The sign reads:

"Sanderson House, circa 1660, Home of Winifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson. Noon 'til 5:00 p.m. Mon-Sat. Donation 50 cents:

Allison:
"My mom used to run this place, but tourists kept having heart attacks and accidents so they closed it down"

As they approach the house, Binx makes his appearance before they enter.
Max: "It's just a cat"

Allison:
"It's THE cat--the one that warns you!"

The cat begins yowling at them. Max throws a stone at it. There is a yowl of pain, and the cat disappears in the shadows.

They enter the house using an old key that still sits above the door. When they find the lights inside the witch house, there are three mannequins of the witches huddled around a cauldron. This scares Dani which results in Allison telling Dani "They're just dummies" and Max calling her a dummy.

As they begin to explore the house, Dani stares at the mannequin of Winifred.

Allison:
"That's Winifred. She was the eldest. Her farther was a warlock. This is Mary, the middle sister. Her father was a bloodhound and she could follow the scent of a child for miles. Sarah, the youngest, was strange. She would lure children -- usually young boys --into the woods to play and they'd never be seen again."

Cut to the return of the witches. in the film Sarah pulls her Lucky Rat Tail from one of the beams above her, in the script she pulls it out from under one of the floorboards. Mary begins to examine the mannequins around the cauldron and calls them clever, which results in Winifred stating they look nothing like her.

Mary: "Well, of course not, sister. They have totally missed that special glow of they skin and the way --"
Winifred hits Mary on the back of the head.
Mary: "I see thy point, sister"

Winifred then smashes the glass cabinet that houses the book with her hands and takes it.

Another jump to the witches leaving the house after discovering the "burning rain of death" is just water. They're afraid to cross the river (road).

Mary: "What is that?"
Winifred: "'Tis a Ford... Obviously a vessel for fording this river.
Mary: "Winnie's so clever"

They push Sarah into the road who screams "I cannot swim! I cannot swim!"

In the graveyard as Binx is about to tell them the story of Billy Butcherson he asks them all to sit, Max doesn't sit and instead stays standing. Binx: "You too, verge".

We return to the Sanderson Sisters house where they're hiding outside as the firemen leave the building. In the film Sarah pulls a spider from the bush and in the script this spiders fate is a little more descriptive.
'Sarah is blithely plucking the legs out of the spider.'

Sarah: "One little leggy... Two little leggies..."

Mary then snatches the spider from Sarah's hand and swallows it.

Sarah: "Mary ate my spider!"
Mary: "What spider?"
Winifred then hooks both of their nostrils and brings them closer before explaining what the black flame candle being lit once again means.

Winifred: "The ingredients for that potion are in my spell book, and the little brats have stolen it. So here's the rub. We must get my book back, brew the goo, and steal the lives of chil-dren before sunrise -- or we shall evaporate and never exist again. Hast thou grasped the urgency of our plight?"

We return to the cemetery where Max is about to try and burn the book. In the film a wind blows out the lighters flame, however in the script, the flame actually turns into a ball and explodes, nearly burning Max's hand off.

Max to Binx: "Why didn't you warn me?"
Binx: "Why did you throw a rock at me?"

The witches appear and above.
Sarah & Mary: "Why didn't you warn me! Why didn't you warn me!"
Winifred: "It's all just a bunch of Hocus Pocus"
Max: "Yo, hags! Get lost!"
Winifred: "Ah, the brave little virgin who lit the candle. (stares into his soul) He misses his friend. He wants to go home"
Mary & Sarah (pretending to cry): "Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo!"
Sarah: "I'll be thy friend"
Allison: "Take a hike!"
Winifred (hates her): "Ah, she's jealous. And isn't she pretty. Almost as pretty as her ancestor, little Elizabeth Podbury, a good witch"
Mary: "Good to the last bite!".

When the kids are underground in the graveyard. Allison refers to the following Billy as "Mildew Man". Cut to the witches landing outside the graveyard gates.
Winifred: "They must come out somewhere and when they do, we will get the book and skin them all alive!"
Mary: "A brilliant plan. I wish I thought of it myself"
Winifred: "But first, we must find the other children of Salem"
Sarah: "Why?"
Winifred: "BECAUSE, for the third and final time, my dim witted sibling, when we find the book, we can use the potion to steal ALL THEIR LIVES!"
Sarah: "Oh. Right."

The bus pulls up beside them and the doors open. When Winifred tells the driver they desire children his response in the script is: "I'd hurry up if I were you. Your biological clock's about to run you down, baby."
He's about to close the door when Sarah steps forward.
Sarah: "Hey, handsome. They're with me"
The witches climb aboard the bus, which is empty.
Bus Driver: "Which witch is which? Excuse me, ladies, this is a magic bus, but I do need a token or its financial equivalent"

The witches, now off the bus are standing outside as children in costume run up and down the street. Mary thinks she's lost her powers as she can smell children but cannot see them.
Winifred: "What do we desire?"
Mary & Sarah: "Children!"
Winifred: "When do we want them?"
Mary & Sarah: "Now!"
They share a team snarl.
Winifred: "Snake formation" They lean their brooms against the fence and then Winifred begins to mutter a childhood chant, to give them courage.

Winifred: "Satan Loves us, this we know. Because our mother told us so. And when in trouble, be smart, ladies, do not waste time, go straight to hades."

The Devil then appears on his doorstep howling into the night and the witches all turn and scream "MASTER!" .

Check back next week for part 3!

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Trick-or-Treat 2021: October 31st Vintage Halloween Inspired Collection Full Reveal!

Slim Tin Signs

Small Tin Signs

Stickers

Square Prints

Pennants

Trick or Treat Game

Planchettes

Spirit Board

Postcards

Ghost Patch

Pins

Notepad

Mugs

Jars

Lanterns

Greeting Cards

Die Cut Decorations

Candles

Badges

Halloween Poem Tin Sign

Hocus Pocus: Exploring The original Script! Part 2

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