{"id":14445,"date":"2012-04-25T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2012-04-25T07:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:21:42","slug":"muddyskull-calaveras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14445","title":{"rendered":"Muddyskull Calaveras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/muddyskull-150x102.jpg\" alt=\"Cake Toppers\" title=\"Cake Toppers\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>One of the things I love most about the Internet Age is the opportunities for cultural cross-pollination, which is how you wind up with a ceramicist in Thailand specializing in Dia de Los Muertos skulls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodiemuddyskull.blogspot.com\/\">Muddyskull<\/a> offers a variety of marveous cake toppers, salt-and-pepper shakers, and jewelry which look like Jerry Garcia blew up all over them.  The artist does custom designs on request, and also sells unpainted blanks if you&#8217;d rather decorate your own.  The Muddyskull site is primarily a showcase of her work; you can purchase them through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfire.com\/ext\/shop\/studio\/sweetiecaketopper\">Artfire<\/a> or via the related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodiemud.com\/\">gOOdiemud<\/a> site, which also has non-skully items available (the dogs and humans are unremarkable, but the owls are pretty darn baroque).<\/p>\n<p>Although she apologizes for her imperfect grasp of English, the artist&#8217;s enthusiasm definitely shines through.  I love her wonderfully over-the-top decorative excesses, and for handmade items they&#8217;re really quite affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love most about the Internet Age is the opportunities for cultural cross-pollination, which is how you wind up with a ceramicist in Thailand specializing in Dia de Los Muertos skulls. Muddyskull offers a variety of marveous cake toppers, salt-and-pepper shakers, and jewelry which look like Jerry Garcia blew up all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14621,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}