Shivers of Delight

I haven't seen many needle felted illustrations of skeletons. Maybe it's new to you too? Similar to embroidered pieces, the felted images from Black Heart Felts are darling skulls and skeletons of animals for the most part. They're nicely framed and ready to hang on your wall. Bat Skeleton Rabbit Skeleton Snake Skeleton Mermaid Skeleton Skeleton Love Hands Kangaroo Skeleton I love these! The artist, Emily, can also do custom pieces. 

I read in the New York Times last week that paper maché is back in fashion, or maybe it was that we've already missed the paper maché trend. OK, I only read the headline, but in my house paper maché has always been in fashion. These days paper maché also seems to mean paper clay. I won't debate it with you, but I have questions. Today I'm featuring the whimspookal paper maché / paper clay sculptures of Terry Graber . They're delightful whatever you want to call them. Devil Trick-or-Treater Figure Harvest Moon Pumpkin Figure Set of Two Pumpkin Trick-or-Treater Figures Set of Three Skeleton Figures Halloween Black Cat Candy Container Miniature Pumpkin If you're interested, the New York Times article is " Could Papier-Mâché Be the Perfect Medium for Our Times? ". It's a good article (I did finally read it) and if you ever get a chance to visit the Bread and Puppet Theater museum in Vermont, go! The giant paper maché sculptures a...

Putting together pieces of this and that and creating something worth keeping, let alone selling, is a lot harder than it looks. Carey Burns has some spooky works of assemblage I like. She also has some wall plaques that are clever. Her shop is CareyBeeCrafts . Handsome Devil Art Assemblage Harvest Time Halloween Clock Assemblage Vlad "The Impaler" Shrine Skull and Stars Plaque Deadly Wooden Blocks Poison Woman Pendant So now you're going to have to think twice before using the Marie Kondo method to just get rid of everything. What future art project will you be throwing away?!

I last featured Sophia Rapata in 2016 and it's time to take another look at the eerie watercolor illustrations she's been creating. There is a bit more color in some of her paintings and maybe a touch more humor- if that's the right word. I wouldn't call them whimspookal, but some of them did make me grin. The shop is SophiaRapata . Hermit Lady Dance on the Totem of Jack-O-Lanterns The Ghosts Came Out of the Fog My Sweet Pumpkin Baby Bat Lady Contraption, original watercolor Haunting Birthday To You If you read the description of her paintings she describes her materials as "watercolor, water-soluble graphite, ink & wine."

Candice Cardenas calls herself a glass witch. Her stained glass pieces give a mystical glow to the light coming through windows and she makes pretty little stained glass jewelry too. Her shop is Wicked Stained Glass CC. Etched Glass Spider Web Suncatcher Glass Coffin & Bat Pendant Moon Goddess Stained Glass Suncatcher Coffin Shaped Air Plant Display Stained Glass Planchette Suncatcher Etched Moon Cycle Glass Pendant The glass jewelry pieces are lovely, don't you think?

Xavier is an artist in California who works in watercolor and dreams of ghosts. He describes his art as haunting and surreal. I love the dreamy (nighmarish?) atmosphere he creates. You'll find prints, originals, pins, and t-shirts in his shop BUILTFROMSKETCH . Fevers, Giclée Print Mire, Giclée Print Harbinger, T-shirt Goblin Print Gage, Original Watercolor Pumpkin Guard, Giclée Print Personally, I like that you can get limited edition Giclée prints from Xavier.  So many artists are printing on photo paper, which I hate.

So many of my favorite jewelry incorporates skulls that I don't even think twice about it when I wear them. I wonder if the spookless people find it peculiar. I hope so. Defy Jewelry in Thailand has oodles of skulls and anatomical jewelry to adorn yourself with. Check out the shop because they have hundreds of pieces and I'm only showing you six. Skull Flower Earrings Bird Skull Ring Skulls on Bones Bangle Bracelet Anatomical Heart Cufflinks Hand-painted Skull Stud Earrings Large Skull Necklace I'm definitely partial to their hand-painted jewelry. I think I might need a few more skulls in my collection.

These cute spooky dresses popped up in my Etsy feed and I instantly thought of spring. It's just what I want to daydream about since we got another 4 inches of snow last night. The dresses are made by Angela at Glam Cloud. Hocus Pocus Retro Witchy Dress Zombies Dress Palm Reader Dress Cosmic Love Hurts Jersey I Love You But You've Chosen Darkness Skull Dress Skulls Sweetheart Dress Moths Hands and Magic dress The majority of the dresses come in small and medium sizes, but you'll find some larges too.

Debra Klopp-Kersey's work just keeps getting better. It's been a few years since we lasted visited her shop of strange dolls and softies and I must say they're fantastic! In additions to dolls, you'll find original paintings, prints, and even some paper dolls. The shop is Klopp Studio . Hand-painted Skeleton Doll Devil Voodoo Figure Plague Doctor Stuffed Doll Painted Halloween Stuffed Doll Voodoo Doll She Devil Doll These dolls are all original and hand-painted. Klopp-Kersey is in my collection starting now.