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Renee

Lemurgurl Art From The Mystery Cottage

About Me


Hello! I'm an artist here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I paint gothic folk paintings of vampire entemologists, werewolf pirates, and pink-haired maidens their monster pets. If you'd like to see what I have for sale currently, just check out my etsy shoppe mini below. And be sure to visit my public blog at http://mysterycottage.blogspot.com

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
mysterycottage.etsy.com
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My Interests

In alphabetical order, no less! animals, antiques, art, astrology, banana slugs, buster keaton, critters, dracula, folklore, garden spiders, gothic stuff, harry potter, historic costume, horror movies, lemurs, medieval stuff, moths, painting, druids, samoyeds, sewing, silent movies, the color green, the moon, the northwest, the ocean, thrift stores, trees, vampires, victoriana, vikings, werewolves, witches, womberscootches,

I'd like to meet:

artists, magicians, witches, bookworms, mad scientists, chefs, wallflowers, dreamers, fortune tellers, writers, poets, animals, tree-huggers, gardeners, circus freaks, dancers, druids, dryads, ghosts, specters, musicians, crafters, herbalists, gardeners, geeks, lemurs, samoyeds, etc. If you have your profile set to private or are a bank just looking to add a million people, I won't add you back. Sorry!

Music:

I like Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Rheostatics, Violet Archers, Sarah Harmer, Loreena Mckennit, The Kinks, The Who, Pink Floyd, and lots more!

Movies:

I'm especially keen on vintage horror (up through the mid-70's), film noir, silent movies, and fantasy.

Television:

I don't have cable, so I don't see too many shows. In the past, I've liked Twin Peaks, Due South, The Addams Family, Star Trek, Buffy and Angel, and Bewitched.

Books:

Fantasy, horror, crime, historical, etc. My all-time favorite writer is Ray Bradbury. I also love J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, and about a zillion others.

Heroes:

My husband, my friends, my family, and my pets!

My Blog

time flies!

I really need to remember to update this blog! It’s been a couple weeks since I even logged into myspace, I’ve been so busy lately and time just flies! I’m happy to say that my new p...
Posted by Renee on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:58:00 PST

Odds and ends!

First off, be sure to check out the blogspot blog - I update that one almost every day! It's at http://mysterycottage.blogspot.com . It's also syndicated at Livejournal, so if you want to add it to yo...
Posted by Renee on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:52:00 PST

new blog!

Please go take a look at my new blog! The address is http://mysterycottage.blogspot.com  That is where I'll be posting lots of new stuff. Bookmark that sucker! :)...
Posted by Renee on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:02:00 PST

busy busy!

I've been busy with the usual crazy holiday stuff, but I've managed to make some new stuff for my ebay store, too. I busted out a couple of apron patterns I made about a year ago and made these: I a...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:28:00 PST

updates and ebay store!

I tried to change some stuff on my myspace page and now it's all cattywampus! Yikes! I don't know how to fix it right now, I'll figure it out later. In other news, I updated my website, and have a lin...
Posted by Renee on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:00:00 PST

Womberscootch perfume oil gift pack! :)

Vajra of Conjure Oils and I have teamed up to create the Womberscootch gift set! Vajra has blended a wonderful perfume oil to evoke the mysterious forest-dwelling womberscootch. Click on the picture t...
Posted by Renee on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:56:00 PST

carnivorous plant lady painting on etsy

My newest painting is for sale in my etsy shop - it might be of interest to those keen on carnivorous plants. It will stay there for a while, but I may move it over to ebay and see if it gets any bite...
Posted by Renee on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST

Womberscootch on etsy!

I listed a womberscootch figurine in my etsy shop, should you care to take a look: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=35453 That's all for now! :)...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:12:00 PST