POP CULTURE LEAGUE (AND 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN): HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!

IT's time for Cool and Collected's Pop Culture League challenge!

This week's topic is:

Here there be Monsters

‘Tis the Halloween season!

I would love to show off my monsters and other creepy figures, but that is planned for future posts, o what do I show? First off let us start with a story. I was unpopular and shy and so I began to express myself decorating. My dad and Mom had certain ways to do Christmas, but Halloween was eventually my baby. Then tragedy struck my life. My grandpa went into a coma around midnight on Christmas Day 1994, and then died 2 days later on my sister's birthday. My mom went into the hospital and stayed through my birthday in 1995 and then died a couple weeks later in August. The big holidays were ruined but not Halloween. I will say that recently on Halloween I sprained my knee  and was bed rest Halloween night, but other than that Halloween has been good. Knock on wood! So I latched on to it even more, now I go crazy! I even began decorating this year in August! So I am happy that it is Halloween season officially as I no longer look crazy (for decorating at least).

SO these images I planned to show on a later date, but I think this is the best time to show them! The Rat I bought last year and the frog I bought this year, both at Target, the backgrounds are "Scene Setters" and I got them at Party City last year, but Spirit sells them as well! The tombstone I believe I got at Wal-Mart a few years ago!

 This Frog is so cool and creepy. Unlike many of my other decorations, he will stay out year long and will be a scary addition to my frog display!

 The rat here is creepy. Like the frog, his jaw is hinged, but his tail is also bendy!

These monsters are definitely not something I want to see at night roaming, especially with my fear of zombies (more on that this month)!

Like my take on this topic? Then you should check out what my fellow leaguers came up with:

• Brother Midnight over at Green Plastic Squirt Gun shows us his "monstrous" collection!
• The Nerd Nook looks at an essential item from my childhood!
• Mr. Smith's Plastic Bubble ponders the mystery of "what is a monster?"
• 20 Years Before 2000 looks at Jason Vorhees!
• G.I.Jigsaw shows us his art skills and spotlights a fear of mine and in the comments we get a glimpse at next week's challenge from cool and collected! :/
• Toy Box talks about some Batman villains!
• Haxbee looks at the Don Post Studios!
• 2 Minute Toy Break looks at creepy figures if they were real!

 I am celebrating Halloween in my "31 Days of Halloween!" all month long! A new post every day!