Halloween Merrymaking
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781455605507
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Vintage Costume Inspirations
Author: Laughing Elephant
Publisher: Vintage Lifestyle
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781514900314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave the most original costume at the next Halloween party with our retro costume look book A great costume can come from a simple idea. We offer the images in this book to spark your imagination. The serious crafter can find elaborate outfits to challenge his or her skill, and the more casual creator can be inspired by discovering how a few simple details can make a striking costume. Most of the images in this book are from mid-century French and German costume magazines and catalogs, full of wildly creative pictures and ideas. Our challenge was only in editing down our favorites to a reasonable number. A few of the best and most whimsical ideas include: an artist's palette (complete with paintbrush hat ), a carrot with carrot frond mask, a box of chocolate (for the ambitious costumer and even an alluring version of a high-tension wire.
Dressed for Thrills
Author: Mark Alice Durant
Publisher:
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Whimsical array of ghosts and goblins, spooks and skeletons, animals and nursery-room characters parade through this unparalleled collection of more than one hundred years of American Halloween costumes and masquerade. Photographer Phyllis Galembo approaches her subjects with the delight and wonder of one who has discovered an entire cast of characters backstage in an abandoned theater. Through her lens, the costumes rise from the dead to once again dance, play, and amuse. Ranging from handmade to store-bought, satin to polyester, the masks, wigs, and costumes, whether recognizable figures or obscure, pique our childhood memories. In her celebration of Halloween revelry, Galembo never settles for the ordinary; instead she creates evocative scenes of dressed-to-scare young trick-or-treaters "modeling" their disguises and of undead spirits haunting their surroundings. The costumes, which span over a century, take on magical qualities through fanciful sets and specialized lighting effects. Accompanying the costumes is a history of this always-popular holiday and essays discussing Galembo's inspirations and techniques. Through her art, Galembo allows us to act out our youthful fantasies of transformation -- to become, or at least observe, what we most want to be: free of inhibitions, of fixed notions of identity. Her images make us laugh and dream and maybe even believe in ghosts. Book jacket.
How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book
Author: Lina Beard
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Girl's Handy Book was one of the earliest works written primarily for girls' amusement and enjoyment. It introduced original and novel ideas to open new routes for enterprise and entertainment for girls. The main goal was to engrave upon the girls' minds that they all have talent and the ability to achieve more than what they think is possible. During the time of this book's publication, it was unusual to promote girls to be inventive. But the writer desired to awaken this creative side in them by giving detailed methods of new tasks and amusements, to put them on the road they could travel and explore alone. Anyone curious about knowing the initiatives taken for girls' empowerment in the olden days will find this work beneficial.
Halloween in America
Author: Stuart Schneider
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780764336188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNext to Christmas, more money is spent on Halloween decorations and novelties than on any other holiday. This wonderful book has been credited with inspiring the Halloween collecting craze, giving its devotees a chance to celebrate the holiday all year round! In addition to color photography and a brand new price guide, there are also many fascinating insights into Halloween. Most people are familiar with the symbolsghosts, Jack-O'-Lanterns, witches, bats, skeletons, and black catsbut few know about Halloween's past. Why does it exist? What is the origin of trick-or-treating? Why does it fall on October 31st? Through these pages you will experience Halloween celebrations of the past and take a look at Halloween today. For collectors, this is one of the largest collections of Halloween memorabilia.
Vintage Halloween Coloring Book
Author: Sylvia Pimental
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-27
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781696015776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWon't you come over on Halloween? This is a coloring book for everyone with over 40 pages of vintage style jack o lanterns, witches, cats and scarecrows. Go back in time when Halloween meant filling your pillowcase with fist size candy bars. No gray scale images, just clean black and white lines illustrations waiting for fun colors to bring them to life.
The Victorian Book of the Dead
Author: Chris Woodyard
Publisher: Kestrel Publications (OH)
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988192522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMacabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
A White Room
Author: Stephanie Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780988867406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the turn of the 20th century, a young bride escapes the maddening prison of domestic life by serving the poor as an unlicensed nurse, but she risks the wrath of her lawyer husband, whose employer ruthlessly pursues and prosecutes unlicensed medical practitioners.
A Halloween How-To
Author: Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2001-07-31
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781455605491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “entertaining” guide features “Halloween trends past and present...costumes, recipes, movies, parties, myths and expeditions” (Publishers Weekly). What is the difference between a goblin and a ghoul? What's the recipe for pumpkin soup? Where can you see the oldest Halloween parade in the United States? Have you ever wondered how to keep your carved pumpkin from decaying too quickly? If you're looking for information and instructions about every aspect of Halloween, you've come to the right place. A Halloween How-To is packed with ideas for October 31. There are fifty great costumes you can make yourself, recipes for everything from fake blood to pumpkin soup, and lists of great movies, CDs, and spooky books. Author Lesley Bannatyne has even assembled a number of games drawn from early twentieth-century Halloween celebrations and includes sample text for party invitations. “This how-to offers everything anyone would ever want to know about All Hallows Eve. . . . A useful reference for both the growing population of adults who revel in Halloween and folks who seek to make the trick-or-treat experience a little more harrowing for unsuspecting children in costume.” —Booklist
Dennison's Bogie Book
Author: Dennison Manufacturing Co
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781530264179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy happy thought... When I was a kid my mom gave me one of these books and for some reason it was one of my most treasured items. It was from the 1940s, and appealed to my creative instincts. It was lost long ago. They reflect a time when people were more creative and hard working, instead of buying plastic junk from China we have today. First published in 1920, this Bogie Book features the following ideas with suggestions for planning, decorating and preparing a party that won't soon be forgotten: a lively home Halloween party; card party on October 31; planning refreshments for the party (including menu and beverage ideas); business girl's halloween party; a dinner dance; supper at the club on Halloween; decorations for school hall, club or parish house; Halloween games including the cup of fate, matrimonial race, ghostly fate, witch's cats, blindfolded partners, spinning the web of fate, apple ten pins, ghostly lites and more; a fabulous rhyming interactive ghost story; costume ideas (for plans and instructions for costumes, please see our Dennison Costume books); decorations for harvest time and thanksgiving. Centerpieces, favors and novelties such as a black cat charm, cat score card, witch pencil, cat balloon, ghostly prize, cat bag, witch horn, witch serving cup, cat serving tray, pirate jack horner pie, pumpkin clown serving cup, candy candlesticks, clown candy holder and so many more are all pictured with instructions on how to make. For Thanksgiving and Harvest Time, the book gives how-to's for a pumpkin blossom balloon, harvest place card, corn and pumpkin centerpiece, gobolink serving cup, corn whistle, pumpkin blossom gobolink, turkey napkin holder, horn of plenty and much more. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.
