DAY OF THE DEAD PURCHASES

Longtime readers will know while we enjoy Halloween, we love the holiday "Dia De Los Muertos" or "Day of the Dead" in Mexican culture.  As Texas has such a widespread and growing Hispanic population, we are seeing this more and more here right alongside Halloween decor.  It's such a great reason to celebrate.

For those who want to know more about it, the Disney/Pixar movie "Coco" is amazing and you'll learn all about it.  Another movie that has stories related to this holiday would be "The Book of Life".  Coco though is the best.  We promise you'll be in tears (happy) at the end.

Anyway, I like to hit the stores for some "after the holiday" sales to add to our box of decorating supplies.  This year I found some napkins, a ceramic dish, and some cool candles.  I also found these unique items, all were anywhere from 50% to 75% off:

This cookie cutter that gives you the shape of the skull.  Now of course this just gives you a cookie skull...for the colorful frosting, you're on your own, ha.  I told 2nd Man that I would volunteer do that part.

Now last year (or maybe the year before, the pandemic has messed with time, ha), I found a large skull cake pan by Wilton.  This year I found this mini cake pan (also by Wilton) that makes six cake skulls.  Again, decorating up to you, ha.

Then I found this.  What is this?  It's a tortilla warmer!  It unzips halfway around and is made with some sort of insulating material between the fabric layers.  You put flour or corn tortillas in it to keep them warm or you can put them in with a damp paper towel and microwave for a few seconds to warm them up.  We could get any sort of random tortilla warmer but I mean come on, it SHOULD be this type right?

And last but certainly not least, I found these playing cards with the sugar skull design on every card.  They are really fun and colorful and will be a great addition to our game cabinet at the farm, though I might have to challenge 2nd Man to a card game or two until then.