Best Place to Buy Faux Taxidermy

Posted by tina seamonster on Sep. 6, 2010 at 3:15 pm

I remember the first time my twins saw real taxidermy in a family friend’s house. We walked into the room and immediately looked up at not 1, but 3 mounted deer heads over the mantle. “Why are they stuck in the wall?” one of my kids asked. “They are the family pets,” I said. “And they died, so they got stuck in the wall.” This seemed to make sense to 3 year olds, so I didn’t have to go any further.

Now that my twins are 5, they understand taxidermy because we have our very own faux-taxidermy pieces. This year, we have been pouring over the Crafty Bastards vendor gallery looking for new friends to add to our walls. And I am excited to say that there are going to be lots to choose from on October 2.

A new vendor this year is Horrible Adorables, who create quirky faux-taxidermy mounts of strange creatures. The odd animals that have been discovered and captured come from the unique imagination of their maker, Jordan Perme. Each creation is one-of-a-kind and constructed with foam, real glass taxidermy eyes and A LOT of wool felt.