Madame Talbot & The Mutter Museum HEART Each Other!

The Mutter Museum has a brand new Blog and on Friday, they posted a lovely post about the exclusive custom poster I hand-illustrated and offset printed for them. You can read all about it right HERE.

They have also implemented a very impressive online store HERE and...should you feel the urge to purchase the commissioned poster I did exclusively for the Mutter Museum, by all means, go ahead and click HERE!
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As of this writing, SIX Foetal Skull Dolls are completely dressed, their costumes all hand-sewn using all Vintage and Victorian velvets and other fabrics I had stashed away just for these dolls. Once they are all completed, the fun part will be adding vintage, antique and Victorian era embellishments, many of which I have collected over the years. Only then will the dolls will be just perfect.

If I have time--and I think I will--I want to finish up the two Junior Foetal Skull dolls, since I have all the fabric out, might as well put some clothes on them, too.

Here is a picture I took last week of all nine dolls, lined up ready for their costumes:




Four of the adult Foetal Skull dolls
And so we don't forget, remember I still have another 10 Mourning Dolls that I made last year and didn't have time to finish them. They are still waiting to be dressed:

The anatomical heart doll
(with china arms and feet)

3 stump dolls and four skeleton dolls
(with china arms and feet)

Two memento mori medical dolls
(with china arms and feet)
I pulled them out yesterday, and here is what greeted me when I popped the lid off the container where they are currently residing, waiting patiently, ever so patiently for their clothes.

They look a tad miffed to me.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, Neil Gaiman, Tarot and The Woodbox Gang CD

Lucky emailed to inform me that Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Black Phoenix Trading Post will be putting out the next Vampire Tarot card in the "15 Painted Cards in a Vampire Tarot" series (story by Neil Gaiman) which is the Magician card sometime in November.


Here is a photo of the t-shirts which I
yanked directly from their website


Here is a The Magician


And - here is the original artwork
for The Magician


And the original artwork for the advertisement
for the Vampire Tarot series


And the credits card I hand-illustrated
for the Vampire Tarot series

Here is the all important link for this shirt and tarot which you can buy at the amazing Black Phoenix Trading Post website, and the main page for everything Vampire Tarot is right Here.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is presenting an officially licensed dual scent-and-art series inspired by Neil Gaiman's short story, "15 Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot."

Each month Black Phoenix Trading Post will be adding a new t-shirt featuring Madame Talbot's breathtaking artwork for Neil Gaiman's "15 Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot".

This is a charitable, not-for-profit venture. All proceeds from every single set and tee go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which works to preserve the First Amendment rights of the comic community.

I will of course post here when each new Tarot, Scent and T-Shirt becomes available.
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Also I received the newest CD from The Woodbox Gang, pics are below:





The music is INCREDIBLE, I have listened to the CD probably ten times today!

My Strange Town

Here are some pictures of my little odd town, that I compare often to Twin Peaks and a bit of Northern Exposure.








-------------------------------------------------------In other local news, the husband and I like to follow the latest in beach combing finds which usually consist of corpses and other body parts. A few days ago, the body of a 47-year-old woman was found dead having washed ashore on a beach near Grayland, Washington (near Aberdeen, Washington).

Apparently she and another man were sailing on a 25-foot sailboat and may have ran into a bad situation. Some debris washed ashore at the north entrance of Willapa Bay, such as cushions and galley items. The body was identified by her name engraved on her dentures.

You can read the whole story at The Daily World by clicking the link Here.

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Also, for those who have been following the stories of all those washed up feet clad in tennis shoes, well, another one showed up on a Richmond beach in Vancouver, B.C.

This is the seventh foot found. Two men were walking on the beach on Tuesday evening when they came across a white size 8 and 1/2 Nike running shoe. It also had a human foot still in it.

The first severed foot was found August, 2007 (the owner of that foot was eventually found belonging to a deceased man whose name has been withheld at the request of his family).

Another man's foot, this one a right foot was found on Gabriola Island in August, 2007.
The foot has remained unidentified as of this writing.

Then, two more feet were found July, 2008 on Valdez and Westham islands. They both belonged to the same man.

In December of 2008, two ladies feet were found in Richmond and belonged to the same woman.

Link here.

I have to wonder, why just feet?

Update: The other body just washed up the other day.

Illustration for Woodbox Gang's New Studio Album - White Trash VooDoo

Lucky informed me today that the outrageous Woodbox Gang (sort of like bluegrass but more like "caustic acoustic" and "trashcan Americana") just posted on their website their brand spanking new Full Length Studio Album titled White Trash Voodoo.

Hand-illustrated pen-and-ink artwork - no computers were used.

These are the kind of jobs I really enjoy, they gave me some ideas and atmosphere and let me do what I do (that is why they hired me, in order for me to do what I do best). This has a Southern Gothic feel to it, the scary-intense Jesus-fueled snake-handler type frenzy where you can almost smell the brimstone cooking downstairs.

A link to their website is right here and please buy this band's music, because they are an American White Trash VooDoo treasure.

For your listening pleasure, one of my favorite songs by the Woodbox Gang:






Poor Jesus" Performed at Mystic Hot Springs

Updated Mourning Doll List

Foetal Skull Dolls will be available November 13th, 2009
Plague Doctor Dolls will be available December 4th, 2009
Other Mourning Dolls will be available December 13th

Foetal Skull Doll and Plague Doctor Doll Reservation List:

If you would like to reserve one of the two dolls mentioned above, please email Lucky to put your name on the list.

His email is Lucky AT MadameTalbot DOT com or email BrennanDalsgard AT Gmail DOT com and we will put your name on the list.

Here is the October 31st updated reservation list of the Mourning Dolls:

Foetal Skull Dolls:
1. Mistress Diane
2. Miz Bella
3. Ann G.
4. Holly C.
5. Lisa (male version)
6. Aysha
7. Sara C.

Below is an alternate list should someone cancel their reservation:
1. DA
2.
3.

Plague Doctor Dolls:
1. Denise
2. Hilary
3. Lisa
4. Stephanie
5. DA
6. Susan
7. Leslie

Below is an alternate list should someone cancel their reservation:
1.Sergio
2.
3.