Knight

Crestwood.

Better pics and prices to come. The paint apps look great, rather small, but better than nothing. They also have Union stuff from the past couple years, the North Pole sign is back too.

There's more SKU' s for molds that haven't arrived yet. So far basic lights and silhouettes. Trees etc end of the month.

More pics to follow. There's the Union Santa they had last year, and a few Menard's Enchanted Forest brand small molds.

$29 for the ghost, $27 for the pumpkin. They'll go on sale twice before they are 50% off after Halloween, but by then they are usually gone. I think I posted Menard's Christmas '17 with prices last November.

These showed up yesterday, the pumpkin says Don Featherstone.

Excellent paint work on those! If you have time, can you post what color red you used on Santa, I'm going to be restoring a Poloron whispering Santa and that red is perfect. Also, what is the flesh tone color? Thank you

I'm hoping we finally found out exactly what molds they've had all these years.

And yes, if I add sand I'll be plugging the drainage holes.

I drilled a small hole for any necessary drainage. I used just an ordinary 4 watt night light bulb. The other Bell has the hole drilled at the lowest point, I'll rectify this one after the season. The one or two times in did rain in mid November, I checked and due to the proximity of it being under the gutter, it didn't really take on any water. Next year I'm going to add a bit of sand to reduce the sway in high winds. Here in Chicago we had a day with 50mph gusts and they shifted a bit on the gutter. The added weight will keep them steady and end shifting. I'm going to use a small amount of silicone to seal the tiny gap from the hole I drilled for the light kit to end any water getting in. Before that I plan on switching to LED soft white bulbs so I won't have to worry about bulb changes for awhile.

I lit mine with a simple C7, it's bright enough to me. I bought a couple last year, used a boring bit and made a perfect hole for the bulb. Oh and I knew others thought the same thing I did when I first saw these at retail, "I'm lighting those up!" A friend of mine did a shading of the "NOEL" from the Empire candle, made a stencil of it and painted it on two bells in white. Looks great. Pics to follow.

So we can assume these molds were already heated/ torched at the factory prior to it's original paint application, is it necessary to do this a second time?

Oh the Rosebud twins, yeah only shop there if you absolutely have to.

Quite a few were purchased at regular price as five snowmen and four Santa remain. There is a bunch of candles still left though. There was plenty of overstock in the mezzanine the day I took the original photos.