Gorgeous Gourds! Menards Halloween ~ Part 2

Onto the second of my two Menards Halloween posts! You can check out my previous blog post to see Part 1. That one was about spooky Halloween decorations, mainly sinister gnomes. This post is going to be a series of photos of the amazing variety of gourds in the Menards garden area.

I was surprised to see so many different gourds at Menards! I'm used to seeing the standard orange pumpkins and pots of mums there. I saw at least one gourd during this trip that I'd never seen before.

These seem like they should be called "Jester Pumpkins" or "Harlequins" because of their bright colors and patterns. They're just so festive!

From what I've found online, this pumpkin is called "The Red Warty Thing".

Here's the one that was new to me. This might be an anomaly, or there might be a type of gourd that generally looks like this. Let me know if you guys know! There was only one of these on the shelf.

Pretty in Pink! Isn't that a cool stem?

I think a pretty pastel pumpkin display could be made with the pink, light sage green, and white pumpkins. I've seen some fake pumpkins in nontraditional colors this year. Super light colored fall stuff seems to be in style this year. I believe this green pumpkin is a Jarrahdale.

I was really happy with how the light hit these white pumpkins for my photos.

I usually see a white pumpkin marked as a "Ghost Pumpkin" or "Casper" but those might be the tiny ones. I'm still thinking about maybe painting a white pumpkin as a sparkly donut after being inspired by the ones at At Home.

The standards looking pretty in the sun:

There was a container full of corn stalks next to the pumpkins. They looked so pretty with the light shining through them.

I spotted this in the garden section and thought it was too cute not to share. I think it's a little fairy house.

So, there's some of what Menards has going in their outdoor section. Pretty surprising selection, hey?

If you'd like to read about different varieties of pumpkins, this is a pretty cool site: The Weird and Warty

Just wait until you see the "Peanut Pumpkin" on there! It's aptly named.

I took a trip to Target today and they were nearly finished putting the Halloween stuff on the shelves. Of course I took some photos! So you might see Target or Michaels on here next. 

Attack of the Gnomes! Menards Halloween ~ Part 1

I'm surprised to have a blog's worth of material from Menards, let alone two blog posts! Menards has a different selection of Halloween stuff from most of the stores I've been in, and some of it is pretty funny. That's what this first blog post is going to focus on. In Part 2, I'll share photos of the many different gourds they had in the garden section. I know I said in my last blog post that Michaels was coming up next, but it turns out I have ton of pics from the two Michaels stores I went to. Those are going to take some time to go through. So onto Menards!

Menards had a great selection of skeleton gnomes, each one funnier than the next! Check out the skeleton fish this one has caught.

I found this more funny than I probably should have.

For some reason, it seemed gross/funny when I thought he was roasting a rat, but now that I'm looking at the pic below, I'm just confused. Is that a pig? Not that this needs to make perfect sense, but if that's a pig, the scale is... well, way too small. So I'm going with a tiny, pink, pig-like rat?

Note the skeleton vulture waiting for that pig/rat. And why isn't the pig/rat a skeleton?

And speaking of tasty treats, look what this guy is offering! I didn't even notice the snake until I enlarged the photo. I think this skeleton is actually pretty cute.

These gnomes were pretty small, maybe 4 to 5" as I'm remembering.

And then there's old "Izzy Dead" here:

Now I know where the pirate skeleton at Ren Faire came from!

I'm not sure if you guys will find this as funny as I do, because I find it pretty funny. Thick spider webs = what appears to be snow under a Halloween village!

Maybe they're planning to leave this web/snow out for the Christmas village?

I think I just spotted some mini garden gnomes here!

Actually, years back I was sent a mystery bunch of Halloween gifts as a promotion and one of those gifts was a pack of cobweb fluff. It's the thickest cobweb you'll ever see! It now acts as "snow" under my Christmas village.

This "Broken Skull Bar" is pretty cool. It's serving "Wicked Spirits and Grog".

It's a real snow storm out there! Actually, that could be Halloween in my state.

I just saw this "Pet Dragon" somewhere else, I think Walmart. The Walmart packaging I'm remembering showed a girl with this dragon perched on her shoulder.

And last but certainly not least, check out this giant inflatable T-Rex!

He was hanging out near the entrance to the store with what I think is an inflatable skeletal dragon? I got a kick out of his little T-Rex arms.

So, there's some of the fun stuff that you can find at Menards! I'll probably post those pretty gourd photos later today.

Also, I should mention to those of you who comment on my blog, I've been having some issues where the comments weren't being sent to me for a really long time. So I wasn't ignoring your comments, I just wasn't seeing them. The issue appears to be resolved now, though. 😊