Creepy Crawly Critters

Stacey — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:44:07 +0000

It’s October, the smell of Fall is in the air, the smell of candy is in the air. It’s almost Halloween! For most young people and many adults I know, this is the coolest holiday of the year. Scary costumes, crazy and funny costumes, tricks, treats, Haunted Houses, and creepy, crawly critters are in adundance.

Spiders, bats, rats, and similar creatures of horror movies and dark passageways are found at the best and scariest Haunted Houses and parties at Halloween. In regards to patterns in nature, it would be unlikely to see some of these frightening critters alive and awake on Halloween. Normally, bats would be hibernating or migrating to a warmer climate in order to live through the winter and many varieties of spiders will have laid eggs and died by the time the weather gets cooler. Now, of course, in sunny Southern California you never know… (cue favorite horror movie music.)

Most of us prefer to be surrounded by the plastic or paper variety of insects and rodents at our parties…I mean really, who wants to share their Halloween treats with some critter, or anyone else for that matter? Because of that, I wanted to introduce you to some of the creepy crawly critters we carry here at Shinoda’s. Check out the links to the right for some of our online items and come on into the store to see what else we have. Remember we only have about 20% of our overall store inventory online.

Thanks to Science & Nature Suite 101 for their article on Halloween Nature Myths, you can read more information at www.suite101.com/scienceandnature.

New Halloween and Christmas Merchandise

Chris — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:25:37 +0000

I don’t know if anyone looks at our webpage more than I do (James is pretty close though). Most of the time I’m cruising around to see if I broke something, or I’m looking at the next section that I want to accidentally break. Rarely do I get to see the new stuff we’ve added.

A couple days ago, while checking the new page for a problem I thought I had created, I stopped to look at some of our new merchandise. We’ve been posting a lot of Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving items. I sifted through some of my favorites and wanted to post them here.

Count the days of Christmas

I’m a sucker for snowmen, especially those with giant grins and great noses like this one. He also has little pockets on his coat that let you mark what day of Christmas it is. Love that one.

Put candy in me

Can’t think of a better place to put Halloween candy than in a spider bowl. It’s a perfect dose of Halloween: not too gruesome and not too cute.

Mummy!

Last but not least, a mummy. I never really understood mummies in horror movies. They moved really slowly, and it was never really clear what they were going to do with you if they caught you. Our mummies represent a departure from the traditional mummy. Realizing that he’s not very good at terrorizing people, he’s gotten himself a Halloween colored bow tie, and he’s probably heading to a Halloween party somewhere with his ‘Happy Haunting’ bat.

You can check out all of our new stuff in one of our stores. You still have 2 days left to take advantage of our Christmas in July sale, so hurry!

See you around the store.

-Chris

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Creepy Crawly Critters

New Halloween and Christmas Merchandise