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Michaels Stores Sweet and Spooky 2025 Halloween Decorations

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For the past several years, there have been more Halloween decorations in the color pink. Some years the decorations are in a light pink while others are bright pink. These decorations are usually hit or miss with people online and with shoppers.

This year, Michaels created a collection called Sweet and Spooky. This collection features a lot of pink, but with a retro twist. I was able to see this collection in store. While there, I took photographs of everything I liked or thought was interesting in the collection.

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Michaels Stores Trick or Treat 2025 Halloween Decorations

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We are now 17 days away from Halloween! I hope everyone is excited about this spooky holiday!

Every year, I complain (To myself) how there aren’t a lot of “ordinary” Halloween decorations. For so many years, the decor is so aesthetic… but it isn’t my aesthetic! I want more orange, more cute, not creepy, ghosts, and plenty of happy looking Jack-o-Lanterns. Sadly, there hasn’t been many decorations like this. So, I’ve resorted to making some of my decorations.

This year, Michaels released a collection of decorations called Trick or Treat. This collection is similar to what I have in mind for my Halloween decorations. It has many things I like and want from the decorations. Although it is not perfect, it did give me ideas and inspiration for my own Halloween decorations.

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Michaels Stores’ Woodland Creature Figurines for Fall 2025

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Last month, I talked about a very cute fox figurine I saw at my closet Michael’s store. You can read the post here. I liked it a lot, but I thought it was pretty big for my house right now

While shopping around the store, I found a selection of creatures made out of the same materials as the fox. The difference is not only the variety of figures, but the size. These ones are much smaller than the fox I originally saw.

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Walmart Halloween 2024 Jack-o-Lantern Decor

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In early September, my local Walmart started to put out their Halloween decorations. At that time, there weren’t many officially Halloween decorations available to browse or purchase. Yet, there were Jack-o-Lantern available to purchase. I really enjoy looking at Jack-o-Lanterns, so I stopped and browsed what the store had available.

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Book Review: From Harvest to Home by Alicia Tenise Chew and Tom McGovern

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Earlier this year, I decide to read the book From Harvest to Home by Alicia Tenise Chew and Tom McGovern. Alicia wrote the book while Tom took the photographs inside the book. It is a book about “seasonal activities, inspired decor, and cozy recipes for Fall”. I wanted to see what it is like, so I decided to read it in spring so I’d know if there were ideas I want to use in the fall.

Since I read it in the spring, I decided to wait until the fall to write a review about the book.

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Walmart Halloween 2024 Throw Pillows

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It’s that time of the year when Halloween decor is available in stores. For Halloween fans, this is the time to browse and purchase new decor to add to their collection. For someone like me, I don’t like decor that is too creepy, scary, or horror inspired. I like cute and classic Halloween decor.

This is why I fell in love with Walmart’s 2024 Halloween throw pillows. They fit into my Halloween style and are quite affordable. I enjoyed seeing them so much I decided to talk about them in a post!

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Hard Candy x Wednesday Collection at Walmart- In Store Photographs

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While on a shopping trip to Walmart earlier this fall, I found the Hard Candy collaboration with the TV series Wednesday for sale. I have many friends that are Tim Burton fans. Because of them, I knew about Wednesday, which is a TV series about Wednesday Addams, from the Addams Family. In the series, she learns to master her psychic abilities at the Nevermore Academy. Four out of the eight episodes from the first season were directed by Tim Burton, who is also an executive producer for the series.

For Halloween 2023, Hard Candy released a makeup collaboration collection inspired by Wednesday. Some of the products I saw in Walmart could be purchased at Walmart only. Others are still available and can be purchased off Hard Candy’s official website.

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ProFusion Cosmetics x Casper The Friendly Ghost Collection at Walmart

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I was really surprised by the amount of Halloween makeup collaborations collections available at the Walmart I normally shop at this year. I didn’t know this at the time, but this was a sign that the Walmart would have different makeup brands available for sale there in the future. This is why I saw makeup brands I never saw for sale before or collections I never thought would be for sale there. One of these makeup brands was ProFusion Cosmetics.

Prior to this, the only way to find ProFusion Cosmetics is either at Ulta Beauty, which was a longer drive away from Walmart, or to order them online. (Unless you drive even further away. Then you can find them at other stores as well as other Ulta Beauty stores.) Seeing ProFusion Cosmetics at my Walmart was a surprise. Especially the Casper The Friendly Ghost collaboration collection!

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Movie Review: Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest (2013)

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Back in October 2020, I was stressed out due to the pandemic and everything that happened or didn’t happen because of it. On the suggestion of some of my friends, I started watch PBS children programing. At that time, some of my friends were pregnant and wanted to watch as many children’s movies and TV shows to see if they would like to show their children once they were born. I didn’t mind helping out, so I started watching a lot of children’s programing.

Despite being an adult woman in her 30’s without any children, I actually enjoyed watching children’s programing. Some of the PBS programs, like Arthur, was nostalgic, and others, such as Let’s Go Luna, was new and made me wonder if I would actually like it as a child. Some PBS shows I liked more than others. One of my favorites was Curious George.

During the weeks leading up to Halloween, PBS began to show many Halloween specials for children. This included one of my favorite Curious George movies and episodes, A Halloween Boo Fest. A Halloween Boo Fest is a stand alone, one hour movie about an adventure Curious George has during Halloween. Ever since I saw it for the first time, I fell in love with it. Even though I am a 30 something year old woman without children, I love the story, the pacing, the moral of the story, and the animation. In the absence of It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! on TV, A Halloween Boo Fest has become my favorite replacement. Since it is nearing Halloween, I wanted to write a review about the movie.

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Lottie London x Vampire Diaries Collection at Walmart- In Store Photographs

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Halloween is two weeks away! I’m both excited and nervous. I’m excited to celebrate one of my favorite holidays, but at the same time I’m not ready for it! I don’t have a costume ready or any plans. Still, I think I’ll be spending my Halloween night eating snacks and watching movies.

One of my favorite things about Halloween I have begun to look forward to is the seasonally themed makeup. I started to pay attention to the makeup released around Halloween time a few years ago. Since then, it has become one of my favorite things about Halloween. This year, I found multiple new, limited edition collections released in time for Halloween. All the collections I saw in person were available at Walmart. I took photographs of many of them to write posts about them.

One of my favorite, and Halloween appropriate, collections was the Lottie London x The Vampire Diaries collection. I found the collection available on the end cap at Walmart.

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