Filexd under: Accessories,Animals,Apparel,Fashion,Jewelry,Novelty,Outdoors — Tags: black, blood, Cats, coffin, costume, eyewear, glasses, plastic, protection, red, sun, sunglasses, vampires — jane @ 1:51 pm

I don’t know about you, but I love weird sunglasses. I’m not talking about the stupid ones where the eyes are shaped like a beer mug or a peace sign. I mean the unusual ones like these great Cat’s Eye Glasses from Victorian Trading Co. Technically they are “Costume Eyewear”, but that never stops me from wearing them in the evening around town. Just don’t count on them protecting you during the day from that blazing sun. You’ll still burn to a crisp, but the upside will be that you’ll look cool doing it.

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Filexd under: Books,Fairy Tales,Games — Tags: blood, Bram Stoker, coffin, Dracula, horror, interactive, murder, mystery, red, review, story, vampires — jane @ 1:06 pm

Once in a while I wander through the bargain books area at Barnes and Noble looking for anything fun and unusual. This time I found the book Dracula’s Heir by Sam Stall. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I am very intrigued. It has all sorts of little envelopes to open inside. Apparently it’s an Interactive Mystery, so there are clues to help you solve some murders that happened 10 years after the events in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Not sure how interactive it can be since I didn’t exist in 1907, which is when this book takes place, but that’s maybe just me be being picky.

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Filexd under: Art,Arts/Crafts,Bed & Bath,Decor,Halloween Decor,kitchen — Tags: Bath Junkie, bath products, black, clean, cleaning products, coffin, glycerin, graveyard, soap, Store — jane @ 5:19 pm

I’ve been on a soap kick lately. Actually more of a bath products kick. Ever since I was visiting Texas and went to a store in Dallas called Bath Junkie a couple of weeks ago. You can actually scent and color your own bath products! I had so much fun creating and discovering my own personal scent. The only down side? They didn’t have any red colorant. Unfortunately all of the colors were pretty pale and cutesy. My master bathroom is made up of browns, blacks and deep reds, so I ended up going with the kind of khaki color they had. I’m not particularly wild about their logo either come to think about it. I would have preferred something vintage looking, but that’s just me. I just wish there was a franchise near me. Anyway, I started looking around for some fun scary soap options and came across this Coffin Soap. Absolutely love it. It’s a little pricey at $5.75 a bar, but it would be more for display anyway. I could make a little soap graveyard display for my bathroom! It’s scented with their own Wicked Witch’s Brew fragrance, but you can also request something different. The only thing is… What does it say? Every time I study the picture I think it says something different. I know, I could just email them and ask, but I’m too lazy and what would be the fun in that? Let me know if you can figure it out.

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Filexd under: Bar,beverage,Food & Candy,kitchen — Tags: blood, coffin, drink, fangs, ice, ice cubes, red, trays, vampires — jane @ 1:11 am

I’ve always got my eye out for something scary or funny and if it’s scary and funny I have to have it. I am the dream impulse buyer. If only most of the stores knew what sorts of items to put in the checkout line that would attract me. Of course that brings up another subject for me. Why, oh why can’t there be a store that just caters to my interests? You know, The Scary Jane Store. I would be there all the time. I’d spend all of my money there. I would constantly promote them on here. It would be a goldmine! Come on all of you entrepreneurs. Start this baby up. I would do it, but I already have my own business. There just isn’t enough hours in the day. So, it’s up to you to make my dream a reality. Anyway, back to what I was writing about. I was in a little gift store last weekend and came across these Cold Blooded Ice Cube Trays in the checkout line. Of course I grabbed them without even looking at the price. After I paid for my purchases and nervously looked at the receipt I found that it was a little more than I would want to pay, but still worth it. Anything to make my Bloody Mary even more bloody. This little coffin shaped tray makes 5 sets of vampire teeth. I tried it out immediately and they came out really good. The only problem being that you only get 5 at a time. So, if you are making them for a party you’d better get started early. I looked around online and found that you could buy them for only $8 on Amazon. I think I might order more from them. If you are still busy planning your idea for The Scary Jane Store I would suggest getting these in the store first.

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Filexd under: Accessories,Decor,Halloween Decor,Holidays — Tags: black, blood, candle, Cats, coffin, costume, Halloween, monsters, movies, skeletons, skull, spiders, webs, witches — jane @ 10:40 pm

Listen, I know it’s February, but if you’re anything like me Halloween is a year round holiday. What most people will only put out for Halloween, we have as our regular decor. I have found over the years that February is one of the best months for picking up scary stuff for my house. No one, except a few of us smart people, is thinking about Halloween this time of year. Everything that was left over from last year has been marked down to practically nothing. Most people would assume it’s just junk left, but I don’t find that to be true. A lot of times I see something I love in the fall, but decide to wait because it’s too pricey. Once Halloween is over the stores do a quick clearance and then the stuff disappears to make room for Christmas. After that’s over they do the quick clearance again. Nothing gets put up for January, so they haul out what’s left from Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas and slash the prices. By then no one is giving any thought to Halloween, so it keeps getting marked down until it’s gone. That’s when I swoop in for the kill. Most of the time that item I was coveting is now half the price or even less. The one thing about this, though, is that this mostly happens online. A few stores will put their clearance stuff in some hidden corner of the store. Most of the time, though, it’s only available on their sites because alot of the bigger stores have to send their stuff back to warehouses. Do a search on Google for Halloween Clearance and you’ll be surprised by the amount of listings. Anything from Target to BuyCostumes.com to the higher end things at Grandin Road.

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Filexd under: Accessories,Art,Books,Collectibles,Decor,Furniture,Halloween Decor,Nature,Weird Stuff — Tags: antiques, bones, coffin, dolls, Halloween, horror, Medical equipment, movies, Scary Jane, Science, skeletons, skull, Store, TV — jane @ 10:35 pm

Let’s face it, I am a little weird. Some would even say very weird. I collect unusual things, I dress weird and I decorate my house strangely. My favorite movie quote is, “I, myself, am strange and unusual.” Do you know what movie that’s from? It’s from Beetlejuice. Lydia says this when she is talking to the two ghostly inhabitants of her parent’s new house. I have always thought that it describes me perfectly. My extended family all find me rather odd and have never understood me. Once in a while I come across someone who is like minded and it helps me remember that there are many people out there like me. I have recently discovered a new show and it has quickly became my favorite. I’m actually surprised that it ever got on TV, considering it’s sometimes high ick factor. It’s called Oddities and it’s on the Discovery Science channel. It’s about an unusual antique store in New York called Obscura Antiques and Oddities. It follows the two owners as they deal with buying and selling strange old items. Anything from real skulls to old medical equipment to coffins. If it’s weird and old they probably have it or want to buy it. It’s a fascinating show and I highly recommend it to all of my strange and unusual friends.

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Filexd under: Crafts,Halloween Decor,Misc.,Storage,Toys/Games — Tags: Barbies, black, box, bury, casket, coffin, dolls, garden, Scary Jane, torture — jane @ 11:52 pm

A while back I found these Coffin Boxes and used them as gift bags for a party I had. I have used them since for many things, but I recently remembered a time from my childhood when I could have used them. As a child I hated Barbies and I still do. I kept getting them as gifts and would then find new and interesting ways to destroy them. Little Scary Jane soon found herself in a dilemma. How to hide the dead bodies from her parents when they were the ones who insisted she should like Barbies, like her sister.  I had been piling them up in shoeboxes, but I needed a more permanent solution. Being the odd child I was I decided I needed to at least give them a proper burial. What do you do when you have a bunch of dead Barbies to bury? At that time cool little Coffin Boxes were not available to me, so I tried to make my own to hold them, without much luck. I ended up burying them without boxes in the backyard. So, take it from me, if you have a Scary child of your own please don’t try to make them play with Barbies. They’ll just find ways to torture the poor things like I did. If you do at least have the decency to get them some of these Coffin Boxes. If you buy them in bulk you can even save money.

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Filexd under: Accessories,Apparel,Fashion,Jewelry,TV/Movies — Tags: casket, clothing, coffin, costume, Halloween, horror, movies, zombies — jane @ 10:25 pm

I love Halloween parties. Everything about them. From the planning to the decorating to the cooking. Unfortunately there is one thing that I don’t enjoy about the average Halloween party and that’s the costumes. Before you judge me and bite my head off in a fit of rage, let me explain.I have said it before and I will say it again. I don’t like funny costumes. Halloween is about scary stuff, not funny stuff. Save the jokes for April Fool’s Day. I’ve tried many times to tell people only to wear scary costumes and you’d think with my friends that would be easy. Unfortunately, no. It’s not even the actual costumes that bug me, it’s the randomness of it. I have always wanted a party like the one in the first Addams Family movie or even just a good scary theme would make me happy. Victorian dead people, classic horror movie characters, zombies or even just the weirdest scary thing that you could come up with. Victorian dead people is probably my favorite though and these Casket Cuff links would be perfect. Can’t you just picture a guy in a rotted out tuxedo with tails, a spider infested top hat, some makeup and these fantastic Casket Cuff Links? Actually I think I’ve seen some movie at some time where a guy dresses up like that for a Halloween party, but I can’t remember what it was. Oh well, he sounds like my dream date.

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Filexd under: Apparel,Fashion,TV/Movies — Tags: clothing, coffin, horror, monsters, movies, skeletons, skull, spiders, tshirt, TV, vampires, zombies — jane @ 3:56 pm

I was directed, by a reader, to this great t-shirt company called Chop Shop. They have some very fun and original designs, but the undeadWe is my favorite. Here’s a blurb from the page about it.

“We just put the final nail in the coffin of our Horror/Fantasy collection with our newest offering undeadWe; it packs in 51 zombies, ghosts, mummies, spirits and other boo-tiful members of the living dead. References range from television, film, video games, popular music, animation, literature, legend and another one from the breakfast table.”

If you want to see if you can figure out what each one is, check out their higher resolution version here. Don’t scroll down on the page or you’ll see the answers. I had so much fun trying to figure them all out. Unfortunately there were some I could not. So ladies if you don’t want everyone staring at your chest for long periods of time then don’t wear this shirt. If you do, then go ahead and stick those babies out. Just remember it may not be your assets the guys are looking at.

* Thanks Susan for the link!

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Filexd under: Accessories,Bar,beverage — Tags: blood, coffin, corpse, drink, flask, liquor, poison — jane @ 10:58 am

This is a very cool little Embalming Fluid Flask. I suppose it is meant to be for your drink of choice whether it be whiskey, absinthe or even blood. I’m not sure I would want to put embalming fluid in it however since that would probably not be a good thing to drink. Just my opinion. Now if you’re stupid and happen to like formaldehyde, methanol, ethanol etc. and don’t mind possible death well then go for it. Who am I to tell you what to do? I do love the coffin shape and the poison symbol, but I would want it without the text. Isn’t embalming fluid inserted into the arteries or something anyway? I may be a little dim-witted in general, but I do know that a corpse can’t swallow. Seems kind of stupid to me. Now if it said Blood on it that would be a whole different story, because I drink that every day, of course.

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