Quirky Smirky

'I myself am strange and unusual' Knitting, ghosts, tea, books, vintage photos, ghibli, kawaii, tattoos, mysteries, literature, retro curios, the quirky things in life.

[weirdsciencefacts]

Tears tell the story

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All beautiful 💧

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I found this adorable vintage stuffed toy lion at a boot sale. Couldn't resist his dorky face.

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Artist Brian Coldrick’s series Behind You is an ongoing look at the very common fear that someone is lurking just out of your field of vision—perhaps prepping to do something not very nice. 

You can visit my creepy section for more: http://sixpenceee.com/tagged/creepy

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So wonderfully creepy!

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Skelemingo! This was a recent commission for a quirky wedding gift. Designed and made by me, DooKnits. Find my page on Facebook 😊

[as-warm-as-choco]

dead humans who are slowly turning into mushroom people? 

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Creepy fungi!

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The Houses As Literary Quotes

Hufflepuff: "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." -John Steinbeck

Gryffindor: "Do I dare disturb the universe?" -T.S. Eliot

Slytherin: "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." -Johnathon Safran Foer

Ravenclaw: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” - John Milton

[sellerslibteens]

On the passenger side of this DeLorean, author of Ready Player One, Ernest Cline. On the driver’s side, reading the 2015 Sports Almanac, is Game of Thrones author George RR Martin. That’s a lot of nerdiness crammed into one photo.

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Ready Player one was by far my favourite book of 2016. Highly recommended it!

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Creepycute Crochet Krampus by me- aka DooKnits on Etsy!

[sixpenceeeaesthetic]

I love the moonlight.

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Hoggle's shadow was in my room last night!

[curiouslystrangehorror]

Elisabeth Demidoff Mausoleum

You may have seen movies where an eccentric owner of an old mansion dies, and sets in his will a fortune to anyone who spends the week there. Several members of the family, a few friends and a few strangers arrive to live out the week, however all go mad or die in the process. Well this story is a little similar, but the difference is it is not a mansion – it is a mausoleum – and it is not a stay of a week, but rather a full year, to unlock the riches… or so the rumours go..

Keep reading

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Would you stay in the mausoleum for a whole year? I would- if it had wifi! 

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A little vintage styled corner in my bedroom, including my Grandfather's bakelite radio, steampunk pith helmet, a hundred year old stole called Dead Fred, old suitcases and a pretty retro deer. I just love weird old stuff. #vintagestyle #retro

[lady-arryn]

ghibli week: favourite character

I know I can be of help to you, even though I’m not pretty and all I’m good at is cleaning. — Sophie Hatter

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A thousand years or more ago When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose names are still well known: Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor, Fair Ravenclaw, from glen, Sweet Hufflepuff, from valley broad, Shrewd Slytherin, from fen

With 31 July just around the corner, I’ve been cooking up a lot of Harry Potter-inspired pieces! This House series was so much fun (Oh and you can now get prints of these in my Etsy *wink wink*)

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Love this ♡

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I was out walking my dogs round the local play fields, and came upon this lying in the grass. What. The. Flip?!? #tentacle #cthulhurises #randomfind

[life]

Tommy Tucker, the most celebrated squirrel of the 1940’s looking dapper in gingham. (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday

[being-john-malkobitch]

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