WebSpinstress Gothic Art and Design
I love to create dark and romantic paintings, graphics, costumes, merchandise, and decor that appeals to everyone, whether self-proclaimed Gothic or not.
In this Lens...
- About Me
- Gothic Contemporary Paintings
- Gothic Digital Artwork
- Gothic Artwork - Posters
- Gothic Home Decorating
- Gothic Decorating Lensography
- Halloween Lensography
- Gothic Christmas Lensography
- Love & Romance Lenses
- Just for Kids...
- Gothic Interests Lenses
- Other Favorite Lenses
- WebSpinstress's Gothic Greeting Cards
- Top 100
- Follow Me
- Giant Squid
- Leave a Note...
About Me
Who is WebSpinstress?
It's very hard for me to write about myself - in fact, this will be the 30th lens that I publish, but one of the first lenses that I started writing...I'm 26 years old, and live in New Hampshire (USA). I'm a work-at-home Mommy to two small boys who are 1 and 3-years-old. My husband and I started dating on my 19th birthday, and we celebrated 7 happy years together by getting married this past Halloween.
I've been designing web sites and graphics since I was 15, so for 11 years now. Time flies when your addicted to Photoshop. :-) I have been publishing ideas on various subjects and marketing other businesses since I was a teenager, but have chosen to focus my attention on my own artistic creations with the support of my friends and family.
I'm creative and I feel the need to share my artistic side with the world. Up until this year, my paintings and digital artwork were personal and I was skeptical about selling my designs. I've offered information and products before, but this is a new step for me. They don't use the phrase "starving artists" for nothing, so I've relied on my marketing skills for the majority of my career to hold me over. In the past few months, I've learned that many people appreciate similar tastes in art; people from all walks of life so to speak...and it has become even more of an exciting venture to me. This has made my new goal and passion in life to be inspiration itself.
Gothic Contemporary Paintings
Gothic Art on Canvas by WebSpinstress
My paintings are the work of my left hand. They are contemporary in style, with subtle dark touches to add mystique to each canvas. I was afraid to use color outside of the Photoshop world for many years until I picked up a paintbrush. I specialize in tribal designs, since pen sketches were my initial forte, then moved on to black permanent marker on canvas. Yes, permanent marker - I try different mediums. Then came paint.I sold my very first piece to a tattoo artist, who fell in love with my Gothic Dragon. It was an Oriental dragon made up hidden tribal symbols, and he encouraged me to pick up a tattoo gun soon after. I still prefer paper and canvas to human canvas though. Art supplies don't move or complain when you design them. ;-)
Gothic Digital Artwork
Gothic Graphic Art by WebSpinstress
I create a lot of Gothic fantasy graphics and designs for use on my merchandise and articles. I tend to try and make everything black and deep shades of red, so I have to kick myself into using unique colors quite often, remembering that other people do enjoy varied ranges of the color spectrum.
Gothic Masquerade Mask Poster by WebSpinstress
My favorite digital piece shown here "SpiderWeb Romance" was designed for my Gothic Spider Web Living Room Theme article, and captures most of my favorite personal design concepts all in one. :-) I love the artistic qualities that can be shown using webs, masquerade themes, and dragons.
I take on many projects to keep me busy during the long days including, but not limited to: painting, graphics, web design, writing, marketing, promotion, creating new products, crafting, decorating, research & design, and rediscovering the World again in a new perspective with my 2 young boys. :-)
Gothic Home Decorating
Gothic pillows, bedding, masks, and decor
I publish my articles here on Squidoo, because it's easy, fun, and more rewarding than many other blogging and social networking websites available.Having a unique and creative home has always been important to me. It inspires all who visit to remember to add a little bit of themselves to everything they do in life. Once having kids, it became more important in order to show them how lucky we are to be able to have and display our individuality.
The photo above is our living room, through the kitchen cutout window perspective. My personal decorating tastes are dark and romantic with a modern twist.
In my spare time, I create unique pillows, bedding, jewelry, masks, clothing, and decor accessories. My newest creation is my antique corset-styled pillows, pictured here.
Gothic Decorating Lensography
Lenses with Gothic-Themed Bedroom Decorating Ideas:-
Gothic Home Decorating
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Gothic Home Decorating is a dark, creative, and unique style that can be comfortably arranged so that even friends and family feel like a part of your mystical lair. Most people Goth out their bedroom, but the rest of the home gets neglected that way...
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Gothic Masquerade Bedroom Theme
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A Gothic Masquerade Bedroom (or even a living room), is one of my favorite home decorating themes that I've designed so far. I love the dark romantic aspects of Gothic Decor, with meaningful objects that portray mystique that can be added to any envi...
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Gothic Style Bedrooms - Themes, Ideas, Design, Decorating
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Almost any bedroom theme can be modified to have Gothic style elements included. You can choose to make your bedroom dark, elegant, romantic, cultural, artistic, spooky, or mix and match until they fit your own unique Gothic style. These Gothic them...
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Gothic Dragon Art & Decor
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My favorite Gothic home decor and art includes dragons. Something seems to be missing when you adorn your castle walls without any mythical creatures staring back at you. There is a dragon available for almost everything...holding a candle or your c...
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Gothic Dragon - Oriental Styled Bedroom Theme
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This Gothic Dragon bedroom theme can be a lot of fun if both the Gothic and Oriental / Asian cultures interest you. This bedroom was created for those who collect swords, Manga, figurines, and/or anime. Years ago, my husband (then boyfriend) had a l...
Halloween Lensography
Halloween Party Ideas and Decorations
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Halloween Party Decorations, Themes, and Costumes
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Themed Halloween party decorations are an easy way to create a fun and authentic setting. For unique Halloween party ideas, you can choose a traditional or modern theme, or incorporate a spooky cemetery setting in your home. Being Gothic has it's ad...
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Decorating Kids Room for Halloween
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We're all getting ready for Halloween, preparing at least a month ahead to share our spooks and thrills with each other. But, sometimes we forget about our kids bedrooms, which could easily be turned into a few weeks to a few months of fun and creati...
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Gothic Halloween Costumes
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Gothic Halloween costumes are available everywhere now, but what does a Goth do for a costume on Halloween? How many times have you already been told that "It isn't Halloween yet", only to think of how creative you could be if you WERE actually wear...
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Halloween Printable Coloring Sheets and Activities
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Make Halloween last all month long with free printable coloring pages, games, and activities for kids. Pumpkins, ghosts, bats, haunted houses, witches, mummies, and Nightmare Before Christmas on blank coloring pages, printable mazes, bingo games, sca...
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Halloween Decorating - Arrangements, Flowers, Gifts
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Creating a unique Halloween arrangement or centerpiece is a fantastic way to display your own morbid decorating style to your party guests. Offer smaller versions as memorable party favors and gifts instead of cheap toys or candy. Here's a few ideas...
Gothic Christmas Lensography
Christmas Decorations and Ornaments
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Gothic Gifts for Christmas, Birthdays, Special Occasions
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There are a lot of cute Gothic gift ideas floating around, but someone forgot to send a memo somewhere. Gothic has elegance and style...funny t shirts, horror movies, and yet another Nightmare before Christmas figurine gets morbid - even for the morb...
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Gothic Christmas Decorating
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A Halloween and Gothic Christmas Decorating theme mix wouldn't be my own concept, although I'll take some credit for maximizing the idea. :-) There is nothing more relaxing to me than lit black candles flickering on a mantle, with a tree full of red...
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Elegant Wine & Grapes Christmas Decorating
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Grape clusters and mini wine bottle Christmas tree ornaments make very unique and elegant decorations. The red and purple hues of grapes or wine create striking accents with traditional evergreen trees and garland. Fair warning though - your elegant...
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Gothic Christmas Tree Themes
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A Gothic Christmas tree is quite the oxymoron, however Goths aren't the only ones who opt for non-traditional themes. People with Christmas trees full of hearts and pink ball ornaments and dog breeds shouldn't be laughing. I'm a huge advocate of cre...
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Christmas Tree Themes and Decorating Ideas
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Themed Christmas trees are popular because you can incorporate your personality with your holiday decorations. A Christmas tree theme with appropriate ornaments and similar Christmas decorations will most likely fit into your themed home properly to...
Love & Romance Lenses
Unique and Creative Ideas to Share your Love
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Blue Roses - Real, Rare, and for Sale
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and now they are blue! Blue roses signify a meaning of impossible or unattainable love, and you will soon be able to send them to your loved ones. Blue roses did not exist in nature and were dyed blue by florists for many years, until 2004 when Sunt...
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Love in a Lunchbox - Creative Ways to Pack Up Your Love
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Leaving notes in a lunch box for your husband and kids is a great way to fill up their stomach and their hearts at the same time. There are many ways to pack up your love and send it off with an extra big smile, when you've run out of words in the mo...
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Unique Romantic Gifts, Ideas, Crafts, and Loving Gestures
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Have you searched your heart out for unique romantic gifts and personalized ideas? Valentine's Day is a great reason to buy a romantic gift for the love of your life, but it's a poor excuse to celebrate it and then not show your love all year long....
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Unique Wine Glasses, Gift Baskets, and Accessories
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Wine gifts are the perfect choice for holidays, weddings, anniversaries, and special occasions. There are many unique styles of wine glasses, wine gift baskets, racks, and accessories to choose from. From collectors to enthusiasts and wine lovers in...
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Terribly Romantic Gothic Dates
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Even if you are already married, you should plan a few romantic dates together to keep the sanity intact. Especially if you have kids. ;-) In fact, marriage is probably a better reason to date each other again once in a while to keep things interesti...
Just for Kids...
Printables and Crafts for Kids
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Lego Power Miners and Monsters
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5 colorful rock monsters have been planning to take over Lego World, and now the Lego Power Miners are determined to stop them. Complete with crystals in hand, their heads open up to chomp the crystals and gain energy. Just be careful they don't eat...
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Christmas Printables - Coloring Sheets and Activities
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Make Christmas last all month long with free Christmas printables - coloring pages, games, and activities for kids. Santa, reindeer, snowmen, ornaments, snowflakes, stockings, and Christmas trees on blank coloring pages, printable mazes, bingo games,...
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Free Printable Borders and Bubble Letters
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Printable borders and printable bubble letters make it easy to create your own personalized greeting cards, stationary paper, and scrapbook pages. Here are a few holiday border clipart designs, letters to print for crafts, printable letters for kids...
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Foamies - Fun Foam Shapes for Crafts
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Foamies are kits that contain foam shaped stickers to create fun foam crafts for kids and are also used for scrapbooking. They are great fun for indoor rainy and snowy day crafts, for both adults and kids. Foamies have no limits; check your local cr...
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Halloween Printable Coloring Sheets and Activities
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Make Halloween last all month long with free printable coloring pages, games, and activities for kids. Pumpkins, ghosts, bats, haunted houses, witches, mummies, and Nightmare Before Christmas on blank coloring pages, printable mazes, bingo games, sca...
Gothic Interests Lenses
Gothic Skulls, Coffins, and Darker Point of View
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Crystal Skull Head Vodka - unique gift idea
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I discovered these unique Crystal Skull Head Vodka bottles while searching for early Gothic Christmas gift ideas. Someone recommended them online on a blog and I immediately fell in love. :-) Although this unique Vodka bottle has a paranormal meaning...
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Gothic Pirate Skulls Art and Home Decor
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Gothic Skulls and Pirate art - The thrills and chills of skull decor can be creepy to some but also romantic to others. Whether old or young, skulls and pirates offer an adventurous decorating option full of mystery and surprises. Join me on a journe...
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Gothic Coffin Furniture and Accessories
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Coffins are not just for the dead - they also bring new life to usable custom furniture creations that would be the perfect center of every Gothic home. Coffin couches are the most popular coffin furniture pieces (usually a do-it-yourself creation),...
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Gothic is Green. Not Just Black...
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Green Living tips and learning to "go green" are an increasingly popular interest because everyone wants to do their part in effectively saving the planet. Many new eco-friendly products have been created to demonstrate that you don't have to lose an...
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Gothic Weddings - Decor, Flowers, Cakes, Favors
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A Gothic Wedding can be very unique and fun for all family members. Gothic is a term coined to pertain to the darker side of life; usually based on music, clothing, and decorating styles. But Gothic is an extremely vague term for no other Goth is lik...
Other Favorite Lenses
More Dark and Strange Topics
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Lost Toys - In Memory of My Child's 1st Pooh
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I am the type of parent that has multiple scrapbooks, memory books, journals, keepsake boxes, and special items saved for my children. I'll keep those items until the day I hand it all over to let them choose what they want to save - and I won't be...
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Baby Books - Memories, Ideas, Printable Pages, Graphics
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A baby book, or baby memory book, is used to record baby's milestones, ancestry, family life, and events that are important to remember later in life. There are plenty of baby books available to buy and fill out, but sometimes you want a more person...
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Words are more meaningful using Haiku poems...can you create one?
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Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has become popular all over the World. Traditional Japanese Haiku poems focus on inspirations from nature and how humans live in it, while many newer versions paint an image of the writer's life and how things...
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Tattoos - What type of tattoo designs do you have and which tattoo is the most meaningful to you?
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Most of us have a tattoo, or two, or twenty - star tattoos, butterfly tattoos, cross tattoos, and angels and even demons. They're now commonly used to tell meaningful stories and display personal attributes as an art form. If you could share one tat...
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Paranormal "Freaky Friday"
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"Freaky Friday" is a tradition started from my Mother and I; we share unique paranormal news weird stories, science and metaphysical discoveries and advancements, cryptozoology findings and other strange links to a small group of people every Friday....
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I made Giant Squid status here on Squidoo on January 13th, 2009!I'm very proud to have received my Giant Squid badge in my first 3 months of being here, and I have made many Squid friendships along the way. Work hard, build quality lenses, maintain them often, and don't give up! :-)
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clouda9 wrote...
Really liked getting to know you through this lens. You are one talented lady :)
Posted June 15, 2009
MiaBellezza wrote...
Congrats on becoming a Giant Squid. It's really something that you work your arts with different hands! 5*.
Posted March 20, 2009
EelKat wrote...
Hey, a fellow Gothy-type, and one not too far away from me (I live in Maine). It's always nice getting to know the other lensmasters on Squidoo.
Great lens you got here! I've just added it to The Lensography Index.
(http://www.squidoo.com/lensographies)
Keep up the good work!
~EK
Posted March 15, 2009
spirituality wrote...
Congratulations on being a giant & on being featured in the Giant squid community showcase. :)
Posted February 06, 2009
mbgphoto wrote...
Excellent lens!! Congratulations on making Giant. You and I started at the same time and I can't imagine having 50 lenses already. I just finished 17. My goal is to reach 50 by end of summer.
You are an inspiration. Thanks. 5*****
Posted February 04, 2009
