{"id":3941,"date":"2009-07-15T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2009-07-13T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:08:25","slug":"taxidermied-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Taxidermied Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rattiara-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"Rat Headdress\" title=\"Rat Headdress\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>UK-based designer Reid Peppard has taken taxidermy to a whole &#8216;nother level with a collection of wearable dead things.  She&#8217;s got loads of macabre accessories, including <a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/more-work.html\">mouse head cufflinks<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/more-and-some-re-documented-work.html\">guinea pig hair comb<\/a>, but I think my two favorite pieces are the <a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/more-work.html\">rat change purse<\/a> (toward the bottom of the post) and this awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/for-corpse.html\">rat headdress<\/a> with Swarovski crystal-encrusted tail.<\/p>\n<p>Her site is ridiculously hard to read because it&#8217;s got dark grey text against a black background, but it&#8217;s worth a visit just for the pictures.  She doesn&#8217;t list any prices, but you can check <a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/retailers-needed.html\">this post<\/a> for ordering details.<\/p>\n<p>Acceptable DIY versions of some of the items might be possible using fake rodents, although I&#8217;m thinking that this might be worth digging my taxidermy books back out for.*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reidpeppard.blogspot.com\/\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I remember rather vividly walking into a crowded bookstore several years ago and telling the clerk that a book I&#8217;d ordered had come in.  I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s called Home Taxidermy.&#8221;  Jeffery Dahmer had been caught about two weeks previously; you should have seen the looks I got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based designer Reid Peppard has taken taxidermy to a whole &#8216;nother level with a collection of wearable dead things. She&#8217;s got loads of macabre accessories, including mouse head cufflinks and a guinea pig hair comb, but I think my two favorite pieces are the rat change purse (toward the bottom of the post) and this [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}