Saturday Night Link Dump
Tentacle Wall Decals – Great-looking tentacular vinyl stickers. (Hat tip to pdq)
a long long adventure with hobbit – Gorgeous Celtic-style artwork depicting Bilbo Baggins’ entire adventure. This would be a stunning embroidery project.
The Charles Addams Mother Goose – Addams did the illustrations for an edition of nursery rhymes in the 60s. There are some sample pages here.
Discount Ghost – This made me giggle immoderately. (NSFW due to naughty language.)
NMBC Cake Pops – The Mayor is a little complicated, but the Jack Skellington ones look pretty easy to DIY.
Fortune Cookie – I intend to start doing this immediately. (Hat tip to Cat)
Vampire Bat Weathervane – They look more like pipistrelle bats to me, but the vane is still pretty.
Sweet Tea Apothecary – Etsy purveyor of “historically inspired” perfume with names like “Dead Writers.”
Top 10 Indie Horror Games of 2012 – Roundup of intriguing horror games. There are even a couple of free ones on the list.
Wiggly Eyed – “Everything is staring at you.” Googly eyes on images, many of them horror-related. (Hat tip to Terri)
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January 25th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Those tentacles will be mine. I already know where they are going, and it is not behind a bathtub or couch, which seem to be the only ideas their designer had. Silly designer.
January 25th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
I can’t keep it to myself. kitchen ceiling, coming out of the cabinetry. was planning to paint it, this is MUCH easier. YAY!!!
January 25th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Hey, thanks for including the Wigglys!! I really loved the Discount Ghost, and Design Toscano is awesome.
January 25th, 2013 at 5:30 pm
@pensive: AWESOME!!! This is what I’d hoped for. I’d do it in a heartbeat, but my poor husband’s customers would probably die of fright.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Another fantastic set of links.
In a fantastic coincidence, I recently took up collecting vintage Charles Addams books. He was a sick, wonderful man.
January 25th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
I’ve got a dark gothic grin on my face when I saw the Vampire Bat Weathervane! I love it and will be adding this to my own haunted mansion. Thank you very much for posting it. Happy Haunting!
January 26th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Again with the embroidery! Actually, that is pretty awesome. If I were indeed the princess my mother raised, having married well and hired sufficient servants to run my household and raise my children, I would occupy myself appropriately by turning this into a wall-sized tapestry.
This may well be a jester hat, but I prefer to think of it as a pair of three-legged pants. Lucky queen!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard these nursery rhymes, but I am reminded of,
which may have been invented or stolen by, but was certainly taught to me by, my father.
in re: Fortune cookies. Oh yes. Ooooooh yes.
Haha, I love that you took issue with exactly which kind of bats those are.
I think more purveyors of interesting things should style themselves as “apothecaries”.
I love that the googly eyes make “horror” images hilarious. But Capt. Crunch, strangely, looks the same.
January 27th, 2013 at 4:18 am
If I had the money I’d ask if I could have that picture made into a stained-glass window. It’s beautiful. I could stand there for hours looking for all the little connections and side-stories.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:50 am
FYI, I bought the weathervane for $59.95 at Victorian Trading Company. It took a couple of weeks to get it, but it is the same exact thing. They call it a “Twilight” weathervane; search their website under that description.