Willow Cove Pumpkins For Sale

Some new offerings from a favorite Etsy shop (and Haunter).

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Willow Cove Halloween 2022

Always Old School Halloween charm from Willow Cove.  And one of the neatest scarecrows around.

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Simulacrum

Another fine scarecrow by fellow scarecrow-maker Willow Cove.  Hanging the gloves like that is really pretty neat.  The way they'd move in the wind would be really disturbing at night.

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New Pumpkin Offering

On Willow Cove's Etsy shop.

I own one of these cool babies and I can vouch for the great quality and design!

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Roger And The Root

In 1860, the people of Providence decided to create a suitable memorial to the founder of Rhode Island. Community leaders went in search of Williams's remains. When they dug up the spot where they believed the remains to be, they found only nails, teeth and bone fragments. They also found an apple tree root. 
The tree root looked as if it had taken on the form of Roger Williams. It had traveled the length of Williams's body, splitting at the hips, bending at the knees and turning up at the feet. Since 1860 the Rhode Island Historical Society has cared for this special tree root as representative of Rhode Island's founder, and has had it on display in the John Brown House since 2007.

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Thanks, Willow Cove!

Willow Cove Manor: The Etsy Shoppe

Got this amazing pumpkin from Willow Cove's shop and it is stellar in person.  Has such a wonderful vintage feel to it, like something you'd find in a roadside antique store.  

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And here for the Etsy shop (I hear more will be added).

And here for his good ol' fashioned Halloween blog.

Effigy

Another fine scarecrow and photo shoot by Willow Cove.

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The Hessian

Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. 

Click here for a wonderful miniature photo shoot from Willow Cove.

Scarecrow Art

From the talented and always original Willow Cove.

More photos of this terrific scarecrow here.

Straw Witch Hat How-To

Thanks, Willow Cove!  Now we know how to make those long scarecrow hats (and cool straw witch hats)...

A CLEVER MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL AUTOMATON

An interesting, novel, and pseudo-scientific attraction has recently been entertaining London audiences at the Hippodrome variety theater. This is a cleverly-constructed figure which apparently walks and writes automatically. It is called Enigmarelle," and is seemingly a mechanical and electrical combination. The figure stands exactly six feet in height, weighs 198 pounds, and is composed of 365 distinct and separate parts. As to composition, the feet are of iron, the lower limbs of steel and wood, while the arms are of steel and copper. The body is an insulated steel wire frame, cased with fiber and rawhide, while the head is of wax. 

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Thanks, Willow Cove, for the nightmare fuel!

It's The Little Things

Another cool mini scarecrow from Willow Cove.

This might as well be up on a nine-foot-tall post.

Feels life-sized.

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Willow Cove Scarecrow

Love this photo (and scarecrow).

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