I have considered collecting vintage Halloween postcards, but really, where am I going to put them? I'm sure it will happen eventually, but for now I'm interested in the wood engravings that Patti Cooper is making based on vintage Halloween art. Cooper uses a wood burner to make her images and then she hand paints them. Her work will take you back to a time when Halloween was still about pumpkins, witches, and ghosts. You'll see no tv characters or superheroes in her work. (Soon I'm going to have to write about my disappointment with modern Halloween.)
Cooper's shop is called
KelpieFire.
Oh, the days when Halloween included tambourines to scare away the evil spirits. Can we go back there?
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