Mother and daughter team Jo and Cassie live in South-East Queensland, Australia and have teamed creating Twisted Whimsey shop
featuring their one of a kind creations inspired in nature, fairy lore and their heart and spirit. The items are very original and range from hats to fairy wings and masks... oh and even customized fantasy shoes! All items are rather different and obviously comes from different moments of inspiration, I guess these two enjoy wearing what they create and there's something of exultant happiness in all their pieces.
Above: Winter Headpiece
Karen Morey is an artist based in Oregon behind Savage Dryad designs. From massive horned headpieces, masks, jewelry, costumes and anything that could challenge her, this multitalented girl offer you a wealth of items looming out her imagination.
You can see the works of Karen in her etsy store http://savagedryad.etsy.com/
You can also see a portfolio of her works in her deviant art account at http://savagedryad.deviantart.com/
Above: AMAZING Horned headpiece made by Karen Morey
Puppy cat meow is a store of hair extensions and accessories run by Tressa that differs from other similar headpieces or wigs stores because of the remarkable "fantasy/renaissance" tone that highlights all her collection. Featuring lovely medieval braids and renaissance hairdos, made with high quality material and custom colored upon you chosing the right hue in a provided pallette. Reasonably priced and gorgeous looking From Renaissance, SCA, Faerie, Steampunk, Goth, Punk, Emo, Scene, Cosplay, Anime and Belly dancing..
Susan Tooker's Spinning Castle is the most delightful store full of wonder, of color, of magic and of treasure.
Be wondered by the lovely things this crafter creates via cross-disciplinary arts such as illustration, photography, costume design, jewelry design and puppet fabrication. Susan Tooker is a visual artist who travels between the worlds in response to the creative energy of Faerie and the embracement of the Shadowlands. She creates elaborate fantasy costumes and performs in character at a number of fantasy events including Faerieworlds in Eugene, Oregon. Her designs frequently incorporate contrasting materials such as sequins, silks and brocades intermingled with natural elements like feathers, stones and bones. Each design is meticulously crafted with a sense of honoring the animal spirits that grace Susan's costumes and accessories.Faerie wands and headpieces, ritual objects... every peace custom made and crafted and with the depth of a story, myth or legend behind them.
Above. Fall woodland Fairy by Crude Things
Crude thing is a quite a rarity... featuring equally rare items... From Gothic Lolita to Bellydance, from fairy tale and vintage to pop and futuristic elements... all mixed together to render some oddities The designer started working as hair stylist and worked in NY then to move to Portland to make very unique art wigs that sell all around the world: paintings, dolls, puppets that are life sized & used for performance art, marionettes, clothes, and sculptures with works published in a wealth of magazines and media press and exhibited in several countries. It really has a lovely collection of fantasy wigs of a quality far beyond the usual cosplay wigs and styled in a suitable way for gothic souls.
Los Tesoros de La Ayalga (the treasures of the Ayalga) is a brand new cute store featuring the loveliest headpieces. The two crafters behind are sisters and come from the enchanted wild and evergreen land of Asturias where "Ayalga" means "ancient hidden treasure, or place where it's buried and is also used there to refer to the Nymphs).
Cosplay Wigs USA is a store specialized in cosplay wigs.
Their concept is simple "Inspiration".. "inspired and inspire by everything around us even if we dont know it, whatever your journey is from simple to fantasy".
Fringe Element (Far out fashion) is a little etsy store run by crafter Alicia St. Rose that makes "Scoodie"style fake fun fur hats. It's a scarf and it's a hoodie thus the name "scoodie".
Warm, soft, cozy and quite edgy, they`re not only useful but also have a touch of "wild" (reminds me a bit to the movie "Where the wild things are").They are reversible, so most of the time you get two looks for the price of one, as some have wisps in one side of the fur. one important note is that they 're made of soft polyester and acrylic faux fur (good not animal is involved!! and can look equally wild and tribal). One size fits all and you can see below how it beautifully will frame your face. Sometimes a simple idea can be so nice looking and useful at the same time, I'm sure you'll love to have one of these when winter approaches.
Above you can see my favorite ones because of the natural colors chosen, a winter white and a wolvish grey... I wouldn't be able to choose among these too, maybe would give up to a complete fur white artic wolvish one... (maybe cos I'm a blonde and would look viking on me !!)She seems to have many fur samples, so if you want a custom color probably you can get it done... This one is really cute too for brunettes!
Always searching for new ideas Merimask is a self taught leather mask maker from USA. You can watch a big gallery of her masks at the crafter Deviant Art gallery where you can contact her to commission a mask and get a custom made done, or you can browse her Merimask etsy store to see the items ready to ship (in case that you can´t wait!). She´s worked for theater works in Japan (and in fact many of her models seems to be nourished by japanese folklore and even anime) and also for Ralph Lauren and Circus du Soleil.