The After Halloween Target, Michaels, and Jo-Ann Haul 2016

It's that time of year again! Time for the After Halloween Target Haul! I'm starting with my favorite photo. The sun was setting when I took this and I love the way the light was hitting this pumpkin.

This pumpkin is carvable and would now be marked down to $1.20. Have any of you tried carving a Target pumpkin? This one's "skin" feels a little thicker than the Dollar Tree pumpkin I carved.

This sugar skull bucket is going to be out year-round. These are handy for holding makeup brushes or pens and pencils. Interestingly, as I was buying this, the cashier told me about her daughter's Day of the Dead makeup. She said it took her daughter two hours to apply it! She had the jewels around her eyes and everything.

I told her that I thought that was cool and hoped to do that someday myself. She said that for her part she found it scary and found her daughter's intense Halloween decorating scary. And I said "I guess you can tell I'm into it too by all the stuff I'm buying!" I think she was as confused by me as I was by her.

It's funny, I guess I forgot because I talk to so many Halloween people online, that some people are actually scared by this stuff! Even something as cute as a sugar skull theme.

These little jack-o-lantern tags might end up around treat bags for next year's party.

50 cents was a super deal for craft paint and Mod Podge! Now, they'd be only 25 cents. Good luck finding some! You never know, all Targets seem to be different. Come to think of it, there were tons of Mod Podge bottles on the shelf.

The paint I really liked was called "Wedding Gold" I guess like a gold wedding band?

Some cute jack-o-lantern socks:

A two pack of these felt flowers would now be marked down to 25 cents. They're something you could use for Autumn in general. I thought they would have clips on the back but they have more of a twist tie back.

So the flowers will be glued onto a few of these little clothespins which were also on clearance.

There was a bunch of general, bright stuff and birthday themed items in with the 70% off Halloween items.

This pom trim might look cute around the brim of a hat.

This metallic spiderweb tape was listed as "paper tape" which I'm going to assume is similar to Washi Tape.

This roll of black rhinestones has the pieces glued on in straight lines. That can be really helpful with crafting when you don't want to glue them on one by one, hoping to get them straight. And who would ever want to sit around trying to get rhinestones straight with a toothpick? I can't wait to do something with this roll of rhinestones!

This large chalkboard house will look cool either standing behind Halloween figurines or with some other Halloween houses. This was such a steal at 90 cents!

And look at the neat shadow it casts! That makes me think about how cool it could look with some candles around it.

You could of course draw on this house with chalk, since it's coated in chalkboard paint.

Pipe cleaners for only 30 cents:

Fuzzy socks for only 30 cents!

Halloween glitter!

Felt eyeballs for only 30 cents! I think these would look cute on the party place cards.

This adorable t-shirt was $1.70 or so.

I'd been admiring this shirt all season and was surprised to find one I could fit in. It was an X-Large in kids, and it's always lucky if you can barely swing that. It depends. I have a few Halloween t-shirts that came from the boys' section at Target.

Pink + glitter + metallic stuff + a ghost! So cute, and lucky since I didn't see any adult Halloween t-shirts I was into this year.

Other places worth hauling are Michaels and Jo-Ann crafts. These adorable mini mushrooms are from Michaels. I think they'd look cute with gnome or fairy accessories.

The Michaels these mushrooms came from had a bit of Halloween stuff left. What was there was marked down 80%. But all that was left at a second local Michaels was foam Frankenstein heads. So you might want to hurry there and see what's left!

JoAnn's is another place to check out. These pumpkin tattoos were marked down to 89 cents.

Here's what they look like on the sheet:

I don't plan to adhere these to a pumpkin, though. They might look cool on a glass vase or jar. Or a super wide picture frame. It's something to think about.

I also picked up what I call a sprig. One of those little jeweled berry branches. Also 89 cents. All the Halloween stuff at JoAnn's was marked down 70% when I was there. Maybe it's a higher percentage off now?

Their general Autumn stuff was also marked down.

So I was pretty happy with this year's haul. I had hoped to pick up a skeleton animal or some monster towels I'd seen at Target, but those were long gone. The only skeleton animals crawling around were scorpions. It was surprising to see how fast stuff had flown off the shelves! 

As of yesterday, everything at Target was marked down 70% except for the candy which was marked down 50%. 

What kind of after Halloween goodies did you pick up?

*Update* What little was left at Target was marked down to 90% off. This was in the first week of November.

So, each of the following cost only 10 cents!

This glittery roll of spider/skull tape will probably go into a scrapbooking project.

And I plan to decoupage these wood tags, over the wood part anyway. I'm going to leave the glitter.

Look at that glitter!

I might do something vintage and Christmas themed with them. We'll see...

The After Halloween Target, Michaels, and Walgreens Haul! 2014

It's that time of year again! That time when all the Halloween stuff gets marked down and I get to have fun being the biggest scavenger bargain shark I can be! I had a lot of luck this year watching the merchandise go down in price from 50% off to 70% off to 80% off to... the most exciting of all markdowns: 90% off! I guess things don't generally get marked down any more than that.

Starting with Target!

A very cute bat towel:

I love those polka dots!

A pillow for 90 cents!

Same here:

Some 30 cent jute twine which should be great for some future craft project:

Cupcake wrappers:

Some vintage looking tissue:

Doesn't this remind you of that tissue you see in Halloween pics from the 1930s?

Hanging star decorations you fold out:

I was really excited for this! I'd had my eye on it through October. Not that $6.00 is all that expensive for a makeup set, it's just that I knew it would get marked down. There were several Halloween makeup sets made by e.l.f this year, and this was my favorite.

The "Vampire" beauty book opens up to show many eyeshadow colors, an eyeliner pencil, a lip gloss, and some false eyelashes/glue. There are also some instructions, but I didn't really bother with those. I played with the set today and was very happy with the colors. I'm a fall color makeup person year-round, so I'll get some use out of this set. The eye shadows are super pigmented!

I was intrigued by this eyeball washi tape. I have no experience with washi tape, but I've seen some neat DIY ideas for it online. So what better time to try it out than when it's marked to 60 cents? That and the bright colored eyeballs are awesome.

I stuck some of the washi tape to a pumpkin to see how it looked. This is neat stuff. It sticks pretty well but comes off with no trouble at all. I can't decide what to stick it to first! I watched some videos online of girls sticking it to everything from the wall, to their computers, to their fingernails. Does anyone out there have some experience with this tape?

A cute little 30 cent bucket:

I think these skulls were 90 cents. I think the two of them are going to look cool sitting in the urns next year. 

The skulls are a nearly real size. Maybe they're accurate as small human skulls go.

I was lucky enough to hit Michaels when their stuff was down to 80% off. I wonder if Michaels marks down to 90% off at any point? I don't think I've ever been there when the prices were that low.

This was probably my favorite Michaels find:

These little glitter doilies are so detailed. I don't even know what I'm going to do with them yet, but they'll fit into a craft project somehow. Maybe as part of a Halloween banner? I think these were 39 cents for the pack of eight.

The back shows the details clearly. Some of these have a skull in the center and others have a spider.

Check this out! It's a fake candle made in that old-timey candlestick way. It was a little over $1.00. Last one too!

I also found a few candles in the regular pillar shape.

Here's how the flames look when lit. I like the curve to the flame. These fake candles just keep getting better and better design-wise!

This is a good tie-in to my Walgreens shopping. It so happened that Walgreens had these awesome black candle holders that fit the new Michaels candles! And get this, they were marked down 90%. The shorter ones were only 29 cents! So I cleaned out the few that we were left. I think they'll be good for decorating year-round.

Walgreens had this light up witch hat that will probably be worn by a pumpkin or skull next year.

Some pumpkin window clings:

Six glamorous glitter spiders for only 29 cents!

I'll have fun sprinkling these around. They always look good on a pumpkin.

I hope you all have the good luck I had with after Halloween bargains this year! Did you get any good deals during the past few days?