At Home Decor

I was talking to Rish after I got back from vacation, and he told me about his latest trip to At Home, a store that calls itself the Home Decor & Holiday Superstore. He said he'd seen some Halloween stuff that I might be interested in. They had little headstones that were more or less action figure size. Some, he said, were six-inch scale and some more like a twelve-inch scale. He suggested I check it out.

I've never been to At Home, and, despite my endless number of posts on the subject of holiday decorations, I don't really go to home decor stores, but I figured I'd humor him. I swung by, and immediately found what he was talking about. Here were the smaller headstones.

Can I just start by saying that I hate the silly pun names that they put on these things? I would be so much happier if it was just a plain grave with no name on it. An old enough grave would be that way, after all. 

On top of that, the grave has a skeleton on it. Can you imagine if someone was buried under a headstone like this in reality? I guess I'd like to meet the person who chose to memorialize their life with a headstone like that. Rob Zombie maybe? Tim Burton? Bela Lugosi? Boris Karloff? 

I wish it was the kind of thing you'd get on a real headstone instead, but I guess then it wouldn't be so obviously a Halloween decoration, and it might be harder to sell. To tell the truth, I almost decided against them right at first. Did I want a legit headstone or a kooky decoration one? I guess it can just be a miniature version of the goofy gravestones that people put in their yards, but I'll just have it on my shelf.

I walked around the corner and found the bigger ones.

This one Rish had sent me a picture of beforehand. I didn't like that it said "rest in pieces" but it looked alright. It had skulls and bones and crap all over it too, but I'd already resigned myself to having joke graves instead of realistic graves. So, I just checked them for size. They weren't too outlandishly bigger, so I got one of those too.

I also found some skeletons that Rish told me about.

These were a good size, but they were super stiff and unnaturally positioned. Maybe if I got them hot, I could bend the plastic into a little less strange of a position. $0.99 is so cheap, that it couldn't hurt to grab one of them too.

Here's what the two graves look like in relation to each other.

And here is the skeleton too.

Yeah, he definitely needs to be repositioned. Otherwise, it's not bad though.

Here's one of those skeletons that I got the other day next to the smaller grave. I think it is in the six-inch scale, because it looks right with the six-inch figure.

The other grave is probably a little big.

I know they make graves pretty extravagant sometimes, but usually those are mausoleums or something. A headstone usually isn't shoulder height. However, it looks just fine if you push it to the back of the scene.

I think it'll look good. I'll get started putting up my Halloween stuff soon, to make sure that I get it done in time and it spends a decent amount of time on the shelf before I have to put it all away again and replace it with Christmas.