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Woopitydooart

Posted in craft, monsters, sculpture with tags , , on April 4, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

I had a dollhouse for a short time as a child, and I always wanted to “haunt” it. Something inspired me to do an image search for “haunted dollhouse” recently, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a number of crafters now specialize in spooky miniatures.

On a whim, I started a Pinterest board for them (I just began using the site, so please excuse the sparse posts and randomness).

Whoopitydooart had some of my favorite haunted dollhouse treats.

MONSTER CAKES for the table! How great are these?

The Invisible Man…perfect for the dollhouse study.

Plenty of vampires to choose from.

Haunted tea set (don’t you hate it when this happens?):

Carriage…

She haunts the dollhouse dining room with her moldy doughnuts…

See more here.

Thomas Kuebler

Posted in monsters, sculpture with tags , on April 2, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

I’ve been meaning to post about Thomas Kuebler’s sculptures for a while now.

He uses what I can only call “grotesque realism” to make these eye catching, monstrous creations.

Kuebler states: “I want to tell wild stories in a single three-dimensional portrait and literally flesh out a biography with hair, clothing, trinkets, teeth and fingernails, etc.”

And he certainly does!

You will see Witches & Wisemen, Beggars & Freaks, Monsters & Madmen, Classics & Legends!

One of my favorites, Dr. Nighty Night (click here for details).

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Desktop Goodies 4/1

Posted in absurd, advertising, art, dolls, food, lighting, medicine, photography, vintage with tags , , , , , , , , , , on April 1, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

Well, Spring is upon us here in the US. Though if Spring came to my door looking like this, you can bet I wouldn’t let it in.

Here’s a motivational poster for you fine folks:

What are the chances I could still get this T-shirt if I fill out the order form?

I believe I got this from A Wren’s Life’s Pinterest. Why aren’t there more images of people wrestling Death on medical packaging these days?

I’ve never seen a raven-haired man with a stark white beard, but now I know there’s a solution of such a man wishes to coordinate his whiskers.

One thing any man of mine will not have to worry about (if he doesn’t getting me going about art or science):

Quite possibly the best tombstone epitaph I’ve ever seen:

What happens when acorns are laced with cocaine…

No idea what these are (maybe one of you will know), but I think I like them.

The only way to travel…

This gets major points for being two things: 1) zombie nesting dolls 2) A CAKE.

And speaking of food, I shouldn’t have seen these…because now I will undoubtedly surprise unsuspecting guests with them one day (I’d carry them out facing backwards so the faces are extra shocking).

Though I don’t use much glitter in my projects these days, I very much relate to this (from Para Abnormal):

I’ve been quite under the weather lately, and this piece fairly accurately describes how I feel.

My very favorite closet light:

And lastly…we knew someone would jump on the chance to do this.

Harry Borgman’s Dracula

Posted in art, Books, illustration, monsters, undead with tags , , , , on March 17, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

I’d love to get my hands on a copy of Dracula, illustrated by Harry Borgman in 1974.

The style is wonderful, and I’m digging his use of a single color in black and white images.

See more here.

Ivica Stevanovic

Posted in art, monsters, undead with tags , , on March 15, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

I just spent a while digging though Ivica Stevanovic’s portfolio.

There are some nice children’s book illustrations, but I’m partial to the fantastic monsters, ghouls, ghosts and goblins in the mix.

It was also fun to explore the comic and graphic novel pages. See more here.

Face Off: Tim Burton

Posted in craft, makeup, monsters, sculpture, TV with tags , , , , on March 10, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

Face Off very effectively pits my love of horror makeup design against my aversion to reality TV (WHY can’t this be a regular documentary series? Fewer petty squabbles and more monsters, please!).

Contestants are given various cinematic makeup challenges. Recently they were asked to create something that looks “Tim Burton inspired.” I inadvertently caught about 10 seconds of this episode and figured I’d check out the results.

Here are some of the creations.

This was the challenge winner:

Since most of you reading this have probably seen a Burton film or two (*wink, wink*)…what do you think of these? The winner was pretty well done, but I’m also a fan of the bellhop character.

I think the episode will be on Hulu at some point. See a little recap here.

Desktop Goodies 3/4

Posted in absurd, advertising, anatomy, candy coated nightmares, craft, destinations, fashion, jewelry, lighting, monsters, postcards, undead, vintage with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 4, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

Alnwick Garden is now on my destination list.

The one kind of “medicine” I’d really like to overdose on:

Amazing outfits ahead! This was taken in 1915 (probably what I would have worn if I were around in that time period):

And now an incredible “sport dress” from 1885:

So, is this pretty much the greatest sweater of all time…or THE greatest sweater of all time?

And now for the requisite skeletons that somehow make it into all of these posts. I may have actually featured this before, but I just love it so much.

Be careful when someone asks to “pick your brain.” It may be literal.

With tooth-care proofs of purchase, one could acquire this fabulous dental clock from Zonweiss (well, a rather long time ago anyway):

Mmm…I love the hazy glow of this photo…

When writing a letter to me, please address it as such:

This is how I lift my elephants, too.

I do enjoy de-contextualized slices of vintage printed work…

Absolutely a cause for celebration!

Bats: is there anything they CAN’T do?

Oddly, a few images of bats dealing with headless things grace my desktop at the moment.

This one puts me in a good mood, instantly.

I confess to a bit of library corner lust for this globe lamp:

And these rings are wonderful (yet another example, like most of these images, of lack of sourcing in micro-blogs…does anyone know who makes these?):

I’ll close this post with a monstrously sweet image by McLean Kendree.

Vintage Valentines: Monsters and Undead

Posted in ephemera, monsters, undead, valentine's day, vintage with tags , , , , on February 14, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

Let’s start with a series of (miniaturized) Universal Monster Valentines:



And assorted other goodies…

And he’s not a monster, but he’s the master of suspense…gotta love this:

Don’t miss: MASOCHISTIC, MURDEROUS AND MEATY Valentines.

Unfortunately, I don’t have my whole collection of these with me at the moment. I’m *always* on a quest for more of them though. If you come across any vintage spooky Valentines, let’s share/trade!

Alex Pardee: Superhero Monsters

Posted in art, monsters with tags , on February 1, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

I love Alex Pardee’s new set of superheroes depicted as monsters.

See other Alex Pardee posts here and here.

Artist Site

Gre-Gory the Big Bad Vampire Bat

Posted in monsters, retro, toys with tags , , on January 29, 2012 by shewalkssoftly

In 1979, Matell released this wonderful toy: GRE-GORY THE BIG BAD VAMPIRE BAT.

Though the concept is rather arbitrary (never in all my years of being a bat connoisseur have I seen one with a translucent chest), kids must have loved this thing.

If I hadn’t sworn not to add more clutter to my house until I can get rid of some things, I’d be tracking this guy down on Ebay right now. Every grown woman needs plenty of monsters in the house, right?

And now for a look at Gre-Gory himself:

Does anyone have Gre-Gory? Did you have him as a child? Anyone just dying to get rid of one? ;-)

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