Dolls & Art: Little Gothic Horrors

After the fun of posting something for the Blogger Zombie Walk, another great part of the event was discovering so many fantastic blogs that I'd never seen before. (If you haven't checked the other blogs out yet, you really should!) One of the afore mentioned wonderful "new" blogs I found was 'Little Gothic Horrors', which belongs to Emma Yardis, an Australian doll artist and purveyor of all things spooky.

Hannah - Victorian Gothic Ghost Art Doll from Little Gothic Horrors

Each "delightfully dark little doll" are handcrafted and based on a pattern that Emma designed herself. You might think that having the same pattern for all the dolls would get boring, but actually the details, colours and fabrics ensure that the Little Gothic Horrors all have their own styles and personality, which is really fantastic.

Yvette - Victorian Gothic Ghost Doll from Little Gothic Horrors

As part of the Blogger Zombie Walk, Emma is currently running a contest to win Zola Zombie, so if you'd want to be in with a chance of winning, simply go to the post on the Little Gothic Horrors blog, and leave a comment that includes the word "zombie". You'll have to hurry though, because the competition ends on October 8th! If you don't happen to win, don't worry! Zola's zombie kin, Zara Zombie, is also available for purchase through the Little Gothic Horrors' Etsy store.

Zara Zombie Art Doll from Little Gothic Horrors

To visit Little Gothic Horrors or to purchase a doll of your own, you can click on the links below↓:

• Little Gothic Horrors Blog
• Little Gothic Horrors Etsy Shop
• Little Gothic Horrors Facebook Page

Blogger Zombie Walk Post: When Zombies Make Cakes

So finally, here it is, The Blogger Virtual Zombie Walk~!

Sadly, I didn't manage to complete the original idea I had for the post and I was getting a little worried I wouldn't have anything to post today. However, luckily enough some of my zombie friends, from the graveyard across the street from my house, stopped by and demanded to use my kitchen ("KITCHEN OR BRAAAAINSSSS!"), so I thought I'd photograph their culunary efforts. No zombie photos though, because the flash drives them crazy!

They aren't very tidy fellows, but they produced a rather lovely little cake, featuring gingerbread self-portraits. Of course, them being in the latter stages of decay meant that they left some unplanned decor, in the shape of their random body parts, on the confection as well. Fingers, hand bones, ears...

One of them even lost his tongue!

But worry not for this poor zombie, dear readers! For he managed to reattach it with some icing and piping gel! After some trial and error experimentation on the little gingerbread folk, that is...

Unfortunately, I never got to taste this cake, as it was made of pureed brains and I am a vegetarian. But judging by their noisy devouring, I think we can assume it was delicious. Or, at least that I'm safe from the undead and their fragile chomping jaws for a while. Hurray!

Now that you've read Horror Shock Lolipop's contribution, I absolutely must insist that you go to the next blog on the walk below for some rotting good reading↓ If you're doing this in order, the next one down should be Vanessa Morgan :)

• Ghost Hunting Theories
• Above the Norm: Bizarre Arizona
• Zombies Everywhere
• Holly's Horrorland
• Little Gothic Horrors
• Anything Horror
• Katy Bennett Horror Writer and Poet
• Bubba's Place
• Horror Smorgasbord 
• Gnostalgia
• Monkey Man
• Words and Music
• Red Shoes Chronicles
• The Wolf's Eyes
• My Day in a Sentence
• Pixie's Horror Galore
• Strange State
• The Misadventures of HalloweeNut
• Halloween Blues
• Kweeny Todd
• The California Blogging Massacre
• Vanessa Morgan
• Improbable Frontiers
• No Really, You Can Eat It
• Art By Living Dead Girl Nicole
• Two Gory Chicks
• A Dust Bunny in the Wind
• A Ghoul's Best Friend
• Zombies Are Magic
• Cherry Neko Saves the World
• Tall Tales
• At the Mansion of Madness
• The Haunted Rose
• The Rotting Zombie
• Halloween Overkill
• Out of the Shadows
• Keyhole Gallery
• Creepy Glowbugg
• Bifocal Univision
• Haiku-Koo-Koo
• Sherry Soule
• Anchors and Roses
• Paranormal Researchers Group
• Whispering Pines History
• Lovely Miss Megs
• Sean Thomas Fisher's Blogwash
• Rise and Fight Stump Town Horror
• LoliClown's Little Blog of Horror
• Zombies Can't Love
• Books and Beyond
• The Grave Bandits
• Screaming Goregasms
• Lazy Daisy Life
• Icky Monster
• Pretty in Fiction
• Ivy's Closet
• Justine's Halloween
• Annie Walls
• Just Johnny

Events: Blogger Zombie Walk

Do you like zombies? If you do, you've come to the right place! If you don't, well...you should read this anyway. Very soon - next week in fact! - the second annual Blogger Zombie Walk will take place, and this year we're taking part too, so you know it's going to be amazing ;P

Bloggers that want to participate can click the picture above to see full details on the Ghost Hunting Theories blog. Once you've registered, you'll need to make a zombie-themed post on Friday, 30th September, with a list (and link to) all the other participating blogs along with it. The list will be in the same order at every blog, so anyone who reads each post can easily follow the "zombie walk" to the next blog.