Haunted Fairy Tale Headstone Huggers in Art Doll Quarterly

I was thrilled to have my Haunted Headstone Huggers featured in the current issue of Art Doll Quarterly.  The challenge was Haunted Fairy Tales so I created GRIMM’S ENCHANTED ETERNAL GARDEN. Happily ever after is the closing to many an enchanted tale, however the reality is that for all time marches on and our beloved fairy tale characters grow old and die.  Of course, most of them have a long and happy life. 

The fabled ones end up in the Grimm’s Enchanted Eternal Garden which is a beautiful and peaceful place to rest their bones, most of the time.  On All Hallows Eve, when the moon is high the charmed and wicked spirits alike shake off their shrouds and rise from their sepulchers to dance, frolic and haunt the night away.

Deciding which fairy tale characters would inhabit the garden took a bit of time and pondering, I needed ones that I would be able to come up with witty epitaphs for.  After some research on the web and fairy tale books I finally decided on Drizella Tremaine (one of Cinderella’s stepsisters), the Mad Hatter and the witch from Hansel and Gretel, I made two of the witches with different epitaphs.