I think the cliche mass-produced Halloween inflatable lawns ornaments are tacky. For a while, I saw no blow molds, so I was delighted to see them again.
I love them for the nostalgia factor! They were in the yards when I was a kid. I remember my mom thought they were tacky in people's yards back then. I wish I had purchased a bunch back in the 80s when no one wanted them! I just want the Halloween ones!
I remember hearing stories from my nana from her childhood of the 1950s and 1960s my grandparents had Santa and showmans blow molds outside their house I remember seeing pictures of their blow molds and their Christmas tree!😊
What a wonderful story. I don’t know. It just makes me so happy imagining somebody so happy being driven around in the 80s by his or her mom and being excited to see all the Christmas blow molds. Sounds like she gave you a good upbringing.
I grew up in the 70's and love blow molds. I remember in the 90's there being a resurgence of popularity and finding blowmolds at Walmart. Gosh I really wish I had all my blow mold trick or treat pumpkins from when I was a kid. But they got dented or the handle would break and we would get a new one. We thought they would be around forever.😊
Yeah I wonder if some of the “vintage” ones are from the 90s. I have a few blow molds that have barcode stickers on them so they aren’t super old. But regardless of when a blow mold is made they are super cute. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Super interesting! I stumbled across an image of a blow mold that reminded me of one my grandma owned. I then went down a research spiral and ended up here!
Love blow molds I bought my first santa for 25 at Kmart when I was seven love rhe new blow molds from cracker barrel I got my sister a gnome she opened it and cried she loved it 😅
I found my first Vintage Halloween Blow Mold Today at our local Swap Meet for only $15 🎃✨✨✨ I was very excited. They are very hard to hunt down here in California because everyone wants to collect them.
Thank you for sharing this 🎃!I'm from Mexico,in my country is almost impossible find something like this.Since I was a kid,I love glow molds I saw in movies,I think it so beautiful
What I really like about blow molds is that they are fairly easy to secure outside versus inflatables; especially in the Midwest winters. also, inflatables look like deflated globs in the yard until turned on where as blow molds always give off something to look at.
I completely agree with you! And the blow molds will last years and years but inflatables can’t last very long! And no one likes to see those blobs in there yard 🤣
I do like the blow molds but not the ridiculous prices. Cracker Barrel and Walmart had some new ones at reasonable prices the past couple of years and I did add a few to my vintage ones. I found a fairly tall witch (vintage) just last year so will be displaying it this year. You do a great job! I find the inflatables tacky but figure I will want them one day.
Thank you for this description of how blow molds are made. I never knew!! Great video! I have some new blow molds from Big Lots. No vintage ones yet, but I always keep an eye out 👀 Lately, I've also been very interested in vintage paper cutouts like the black cats you have behind you in the video. I have better luck finding those. Maybe you could do a video on vintage paper cutouts? 💛
Thanks so much for the great video suggestion! I love die cuts so I can do a video in the future for sure ☺️ Also I had no idea Big Lots sold them thanks for sharing that info!
I love blowmolds. I have several of the table top Halloween blowmolds like the one behind you on your right side. They are all vintage. I also have a couple of larger jack-o-lantern ones, a large ghost and the large black cat on top of a jack-o-lantern which seems to be fairly common. This were all yard sales finds!
Great video Emily! I have just recently learned to appreciate blow molds after lucking into the very hard to find orange Halloween owl. I just love it! I also bought the church blow mold last Christmas and was so happy to decorate with it. I hope to someday be able to find the colorful Thanksgiving turkey at a decent price. Fingers crossed 🤞
I think I have some of the vintage blow molds but I can’t seem to find the year or name of them. I have two Santa’s, a snowman, and a pumpkin. All are the hard plastic light up ones that we use outside
I sold my 2 Halloween blowmolds because they take up so much room to store. But I haven't been able to part with my two chocolate rabbit blowmolds. They say Don Featherstone on them :)
I think they were considered tacky was because people just plopped them down in the middle of their yard with no enhancing props or shrubbery. And they are not Victorian/Country/handcrafted, but gaudy mass produced. However, properly showcased, the kitschy quality is charming and the soft light they give off can be magical. I want a plain ghost or that little tabletop pumpkin with black cat. Things come around, isn't it great.
Unfortunately, many of the thrift stores by me are not putting the blow molds out anymore; they are putting them up online to sell at an outrageous price.
I have four blow molds one is STOP HERE other side has BOO NO CANDY I brought that one for Halloween myself and the other three are the old time Christmas mailbox that has steaks that you pound into the ground and I also have the NOEL CANDLES that I got from my late grandmother that I put up each year with bungee cords to hold them to the porch THE NOEL CANDLES HAVE SAND IN THEM
Found this old video. I love my blow molds. Unfortunately I have to lock them up with chains if I put in front yard. The theft of them is really bad. 😢
Thank you for this great informative video! I love the look of the vintage ones. I have a bunny that someone threw out years ago and I just bought two of the target ones cuz they are so cute !! I actually just saw a Dracula at a yard sale but it had no cord and was extremely faded so I left it. Still looking though for others!! Thanks again ! 😊👻🎃👍
Nice video but some of the information is incorrect. Don Featherstone was the designer for those particular molds but they were made by Union Products.
I will take a blow mold over those blow up decorations any day of the week. I have a huge tombstone with a rat blow mold too. I wonder if thats worth anything...
I think the cliche mass-produced Halloween inflatable lawns ornaments are tacky. For a while, I saw no blow molds, so I was delighted to see them again.
Same
❤I LOVE BLOW MOLDS! Our family next door had Santa in his sleigh with reindeer every Christmas!❤
Nostalgic and most of all easier to set up than a lot of the lawn ornaments today.
I love them for the nostalgia factor! They were in the yards when I was a kid. I remember my mom thought they were tacky in people's yards back then. I wish I had purchased a bunch back in the 80s when no one wanted them! I just want the Halloween ones!
Haha that’s funny your mom thinks they’re tacky too 🤣 If only we could go back in time when things aren’t popular!
I have 8 Halloween that Blow Molds that I am selling at my Garage Sale. Two of them I cannot even find on the internet, this is getting interesting!
I remember hearing stories from my nana from her childhood of the 1950s and 1960s my grandparents had Santa and showmans blow molds outside their house I remember seeing pictures of their blow molds and their Christmas tree!😊
Blow molds were big in the 80's, I was a kid and loved when my mom would drive around during Christmas just to look at people's decorated yards
What a wonderful story. I don’t know. It just makes me so happy imagining somebody so happy being driven around in the 80s by his or her mom and being excited to see all the Christmas blow molds. Sounds like she gave you a good upbringing.
We did the same thing in the 80’s! That’s definitely why I have so much nostalgia for them now.
Nice video, thank you. 🎅
I grew up in the 70's and love blow molds. I remember in the 90's there being a resurgence of popularity and finding blowmolds at Walmart. Gosh I really wish I had all my blow mold trick or treat pumpkins from when I was a kid. But they got dented or the handle would break and we would get a new one. We thought they would be around forever.😊
Yeah I wonder if some of the “vintage” ones are from the 90s. I have a few blow molds that have barcode stickers on them so they aren’t super old. But regardless of when a blow mold is made they are super cute. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Super interesting! I stumbled across an image of a blow mold that reminded me of one my grandma owned. I then went down a research spiral and ended up here!
Why do you love blow molds? Do you have any memories of blow molds? Let me know in the comments ☃️🎅🏻
Love blow molds I bought my first santa for 25 at Kmart when I was seven love rhe new blow molds from cracker barrel I got my sister a gnome she opened it and cried she loved it 😅
Great collection☃️🎃⛪️
Love them. I can’t believe they are so hard to find
Hobby Lobby carries replacement lights! Walmart has them during Christmas now!
I found my first Vintage Halloween Blow Mold Today at our local Swap Meet for only $15 🎃✨✨✨ I was very excited. They are very hard to hunt down here in California because everyone wants to collect them.
Omg congrats 🥳🥳🥳 And $15 is such a score!!!
Great video!!! I still have my mom’s Santa 🎅🏻 and toy soldiers decorating my home this season!😀
I want that church!!!
Isn’t it so cute?!?! It sparks so much joy for me ✨✨✨ glad you love it too!
Thank you for sharing this 🎃!I'm from Mexico,in my country is almost impossible find something like this.Since I was a kid,I love glow molds I saw in movies,I think it so beautiful
i love 'em!! i have about 30 of them and the kids just love them! i get tons of compliments at Halloween and Christmas when i display them.
What I really like about blow molds is that they are fairly easy to secure outside versus inflatables; especially in the Midwest winters. also, inflatables look like deflated globs in the yard until turned on where as blow molds always give off something to look at.
I completely agree with you! And the blow molds will last years and years but inflatables can’t last very long! And no one likes to see those blobs in there yard 🤣
Omg I’ve never seen that church BM before! Love it! You have an amazing collection. 🖤🧡
Thank you so much! Yeah I’ve never seen the church before either until I found it at a thrift shop 😄
I love them! I have quite a few.
I do like the blow molds but not the ridiculous prices. Cracker Barrel and Walmart had some new ones at reasonable prices the past couple of years and I did add a few to my vintage ones. I found a fairly tall witch (vintage) just last year so will be displaying it this year. You do a great job! I find the inflatables tacky but figure I will want them one day.
Thank you for this description of how blow molds are made. I never knew!! Great video! I have some new blow molds from Big Lots. No vintage ones yet, but I always keep an eye out 👀 Lately, I've also been very interested in vintage paper cutouts like the black cats you have behind you in the video. I have better luck finding those. Maybe you could do a video on vintage paper cutouts? 💛
Thanks so much for the great video suggestion! I love die cuts so I can do a video in the future for sure ☺️ Also I had no idea Big Lots sold them thanks for sharing that info!
Yes! I have 2 Halloween ones. The cat & pumpkin (like yours) and pumpkin with a black hat.
Yayyy I hope you cherish them and light them up! So glad you have some 🎃
I just thrifted that snowman Blowmold
Great score! Especially while thrifting ☺️
I love blowmolds. I have several of the table top Halloween blowmolds like the one behind you on your right side. They are all vintage. I also have a couple of larger jack-o-lantern ones, a large ghost and the large black cat on top of a jack-o-lantern which seems to be fairly common. This were all yard sales finds!
I wonder if we’re thinking of the same black cat because I want it SO bad and don’t own one. Those were some amazing yard sale finds 😄
Love 'em. Have a bunch.
Hubby, bought two one a Black Angel, and the tall Christmas Candle for $8.00 each I do vintage only too.
Great video Emily! I have just recently learned to appreciate blow molds after lucking into the very hard to find orange Halloween owl. I just love it! I also bought the church blow mold last Christmas and was so happy to decorate with it. I hope to someday be able to find the colorful Thanksgiving turkey at a decent price. Fingers crossed 🤞
Oh my word I can’t believe you have the owl!!! Congrats I want that one so bad 😭 Sending you good vibes that you find the turkey!
I think I have some of the vintage blow molds but I can’t seem to find the year or name of them. I have two Santa’s, a snowman, and a pumpkin. All are the hard plastic light up ones that we use outside
I used to think they were tacky, but now I love them. I passed up a lone Halloween one at Target the other day. I regret it now. 😢
Oh noooo 😭 It’s okay I’ve passed on most of the Target ones too. Hopefully you can find another one you love in the future ☺️
I have that Santa waving standing on the snow
We have the cat and pumpkin one.
I sold my 2 Halloween blowmolds because they take up so much room to store. But I haven't been able to part with my two chocolate rabbit blowmolds. They say Don Featherstone on them :)
Oooooh how amazing! I don’t have any Easter blow molds I’m jealous 😂
I think they were considered tacky was because people just plopped them down in the middle of their yard with no enhancing props or shrubbery. And they are not Victorian/Country/handcrafted, but gaudy mass produced. However, properly showcased, the kitschy quality is charming and the soft light they give off can be magical. I want a plain ghost or that little tabletop pumpkin with black cat. Things come around, isn't it great.
Unfortunately, many of the thrift stores by me are not putting the blow molds out anymore; they are putting them up online to sell at an outrageous price.
I have four blow molds one is STOP HERE other side has BOO NO CANDY I brought that one for Halloween myself and the other three are the old time Christmas mailbox that has steaks that you pound into the ground and I also have the NOEL CANDLES that I got from my late grandmother that I put up each year with bungee cords to hold them to the porch THE NOEL CANDLES HAVE SAND IN THEM
Found this old video. I love my blow molds. Unfortunately I have to lock them up with chains if I put in front yard. The theft of them is really bad. 😢
I just picked up 4 from a tree lawn, sign read...."free"
Thank you for this great informative video! I love the look of the vintage ones. I have a bunny that someone threw out years ago and I just bought two of the target ones cuz they are so cute !! I actually just saw a Dracula at a yard sale but it had no cord and was extremely faded so I left it. Still looking though for others!! Thanks again ! 😊👻🎃👍
You’re so welcome! That’s amazing you saved the bunny from being thrown away. Good for you 👏👏👏
Watching from Germany 🇩🇪: Cute how you say "Oma und Opa"🥰❗😆 Do you have German ancestors❓
Oh how cool you're watching all the way from Germany! My Oma and Opa came from The Netherlands but my Opa is also German ☺
blow molds rock their great even at daytime unlike inflatables that look like multicolored garbage bags when their turned off
I collect blow molds santa and snowman
Nice video but some of the information is incorrect. Don Featherstone was the designer for those particular molds but they were made by Union Products.
Yup I know he worked for Union and pretty sure I said he was a blow mold artist. But thanks for sharing!
I will take a blow mold over those blow up decorations any day of the week. I have a huge tombstone with a rat blow mold too. I wonder if thats worth anything...
I found a green and black haunted house that I got for $2, I sold it for $200+
Any you need selling
They are popular because people are pissed off! We want big, lit, decorations that are cheap. Like they were! 😮
I hate the inflatables…. Blow molds are definitely in better taste and look much more like true decorations.