The Gravestone Girls

Have you ever wished you could just pick up a beautiful gravestone and take it home with you? The Gravestone Girls may be able to help you out. They take castings of old New England gravestones and create replicas that you can hang in your home. The art is really quite beautiful. Besides castings, they also sell pendants, magnets and other oddities. I'm partial to anything with skulls on it, but they also have castings of angels and cherubs.

The Gravestone Girls do not harm the original stones in their casting process. This is very important and why you shouldn't try this at home, kids. Gravestones are very fragile. The group works closely with preservation groups to preserve these monuments and offers lectures on gravestone symbolism.

Each casting tells you the name of the person the gravestone belonged to and where it was found. You can make a picnic pilgrimage to visit the original wearing a black Lolita dress picked specially for the occasion. Sorry,I lost myself.  The castings also come in a variety of colors.

Here are some of my favorites:

Mrs. Peanut

Coffin Bones

Death No Terror!

Issac Fuller Winged Skull

Check out their Partners page on the website. There are lots of good links here. They also have a Calendar page that lets you know where they'll be lecturing.