VanDolls Folk Art

New YouTube Video!  a look at my creative process, a bit of rambling and a boatload of awkwardness !!

Summer is Here!!  With the heat quickly approaching I thought I would give you a really easy and inexpensive way to stay busy indoors. I have been culling my collection of Halloween goodies to make room for this years inevitable Halloweenstravaganza. and I came across a rather large grouping of vintage Halloween cupcake liners.  I remember when I had originally picked them up I had wanted to use them to cover the surface of a few projects I had been working on however, I got so busy with other things that they unfortunately ended up being tucked away with a sampling of vintage Halloween paper odds and ends and there they stayed until today. Halloween Flower Garden Pens: Materials: • 6 cupcake wrappers  • hot glue or tacky glue  • scissors •washi tape  •pen or pencil   Select your cupcake liners!! Today I have chosen a mix of both vintage and vintage inspired liners. The orange and black cat face liners were purchased ...

I have been working very hard for the last month to get ready for this month.  I am so excited to have so many new friends available for adoption tonight!  I am bringing back some of your all time favorites my spooky jack-o-lantern cupcake candy dishes, pumpkin planters, and a Party 'Skelly friend  along with lots of Day of the Dead themed friends, plus a sneak peak of my Poison Pumpkin collection.  Eeek!!

New limited run vintage inspired treats available tonight @5pm cst!

                          This ghoul! Let me tell you, this ghoul right here, if you are ever having a bad day just hop on over to YouTube and watch one of her videos. She is the embodiment of the Halloween spirit, she is so kind, and one of the most thoughtful people I know. She is definitely the type of person I aspire to be. I am so excited to have the opportunity (even if it is in a small way) to help her on her journey to 10k on YouTube(she is sooooo close y’all!) Like literally within a couple hundred  😬 . Let’s band together and show this hard working wonderful ghoul how much we really appreciate everything she does. I am going to be doing a giveaway from 4/25-4/30. If you would like to enter all you need to do is subscribe to her channel from April 25th- April 30th 

A week in review. This week I began working on a project that I had been wanting to get started on for so long. I had been wanting to create horror movie inspired friends for months but I kept holding myself back because I had been dead set on the notion that in some way if I did it I would be betraying my folk art loving friends. It is a delicate balance and I really want to be the  bridge that closes the gap in traditional folk art and the type of work you would look for in a shop that serves the younger crowd. Not all of my Halloween folk art loving friends, but a good majority of them love folk art but also collect and display horror themed items, and I know for me personally trying to mingle the two design esthetics is always a challenge. This week I also decided to experiment with another idea that has been floating around my creative mind: making Halloween candy buckets with witch and devil faces. I absolutely love early Halloween lanterns if I could afford it I would ...

2019 Works : A spooky sampling of some of my works I have created this year. There will be many more to come!! Black Cat Candy Bucket SOLD Skellie Candy Bucket SOLD Skellie Candy Bucket SOLD Skellie Candy Bucket SOLD Masked Halloween Candy Bucket SOLD Punkin Planter SOLD Gert The Gourd Witch SOLD Giant Masked Candy Bucket https://www.etsy.com/VanDollsFolkArt/listing/680844614/folkart-halloween-masked-pumpkin-candy?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1554157062978 Harriet The Hoot https://www.etsy.com/VanDollsFolkArt/listing/691998115/halloween-folk-art-owl-witch-catarina?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1554157160779 Frankie Trick Or Treat  https://www.etsy.com/VanDollsFolkArt/listing/685613877/frankenstein-folk-art-figure?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share...