Looking for unique Christmas wood patterns? The Douglas Fir are coming into popularity, but I enjoy the cutting and painting myself.

Looking for unique Christmas wood patterns? The Douglas Fir are coming into popularity, but I enjoy the cutting and painting myself.
Originally featured in the 1955 Popular Mechanics, this "Patterncraft" waving Santa wood cut was again featured in December 1960.
Popular Mechanics magazine November 1955 provided for readers 2 more woodcut for the handyman or handylady.
The first installment of these Christmas do it yourself wood cuts came in the November 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics.
The masses have spoken (loudly, and for years) and McDonald's finally gave us the vintage style Halloween Happy Meal buckets we've been clamoring for.
2003 Burger King Halloween kids meal premiums were Hamtaro Little Hamsters, Big Adventures toys. There were 8 toys in all.
Each character wore a plastic Halloween disguise. Penelope Ghost-Ham, Cappy Pumpkin-Ham, Boss Alien-Ham, Oxnard Spider-Ham, Bijou Witch-Ham, Hamtaro Franken-Ham, Elder Wolf-Ham, and Panda Skeleton-Ham.
Hamtaro ran in the United States from 2000 through 2006.
View the entire Burger King Halloween Hamtaro activity book here, courtesy of archive.org user KoCoProps.
This Toys R Us ad from October 1977 was published in Upland, California. Featuring Ben Cooper Star Wars costumes, 6 Million Dollar Man disguises, Bionic woman and Wonder Woman costumes and Raggedy Ann.
Kusan branded costumes included the Tiny Tot, P.J. Tiny Tot, and Geoffrey costumes!
Finish your Halloween shopping trip up with a Fun World Clacking Skull, a General Foam carrying pumpkin and General Foam Spook Sticks, and Bayshore E-Z Off Masquerade Make-Up.
Buckets. What a useful thing a bucket can be. If you're a fan of this blog, you know how we treasure our Halloween buckets, and rightfully so. They can hold what? Yeah.
Halloween candy.
McDonald's used to make excellent choices by giving us 80's and 90's kids buckets for said candy, even if they were a bit on the tiny side. And then one day in Spring 1988, Ronald McDonald was leading the board meeting at McDonald's headquarters and he suggested more buckets. But not for Halloween. For Easter.
I can imagine the board room blowing the fuck up. FryGuys losing their collective shit. Grimace flailing his purple arms. Birdie the Early Bird rejoicing. The Hamburglar being shady.
"Easter Buckets!", Ronald says. The smile drooping from ear to ear.
Why these didn't become a yearly this is something I will 1, never understand and 2, never forgive.
The 1988 Easter McBunny pails.
Another year of Halloween SHADE thrown by McDonald's. The 50th anniversary Disney kids meal premiums parade right through Halloween 2021.
These seem like they'd be aimed toward adults, not kids.
Here's a super cool retro guide to making your own costumes and carving jack o lantern's the Popular Mechanics way. First off, a witch costume with a surprise meowing, grimacing black cat will be sure to get a laugh!
2002: Wendy's fast food hamburger restaurants and Lionel team up to offer this cool set of 4 train vehicles, the Eerie Express!