yes it's a little too soon but they sent it in the mail and now i can't stop looking at it -- the wonderful wonderful oriental trading company halloween catalog!
it's just about the best catalog in the whole wide world! this halloween, we will not be wearing elaborate costumes to big events, (unless you count the jones new york suit i bought -- my first real suit -- for amy and scott's mischief night wedding!) but we do just want to be home handing out treats for neighborhood kids.
there are so many great new things in this year's catalog, i don't want to spoil them for anyone, and i just want more time to savor them. i have already got ministry's "every day is halloween" in my head all the time. of course, the catalog has all the great old favorites, too. (last year we gave out gummy brains, among other things.)
although i am sure i will be decorating with handknitted and felted halloween items both old and new, i may also be getting these drippy blood letters. look at the one that spells DANGER. i bet i could alter it to say AMBER very easily! then i can have it forever!
but what is the scariest thing in the new oriental trading company catalog... the very scariest, spookiest thing, that makes my heart turn to ice...
UNLICENSED RED-HATTER KNOCKOFF MERCHANDISE!!!!
this! will! never! do! everyone knows you have to get the licensed stuff. or all you are is... what's it say there? .... "red and wild". oh, god, i love that. that is so pathetic. "red and wild".
the only reasonable use for this stuff is during halloween... or at a pride parade... but only if everyone wearing it also has a big grey handlebar mustache and back hair.