One-Eyed Tentacle Mollusc - Feeping Creatures monster figurine

Aaaaand new feeps are all up in the Feeping Creatures Etsy Shop! Won't you lend them an eyeball?

Squid Twist - Feeping Creatures monster necklace

Good news, everyone! The Feeping Creatures Store on Etsy is now set up to accept credit cards directly. This means you don't need to use PayPal if you don't want to. Should make for faster checkout, too, if I am not mistaken. If you give it a try, let me know what you think!

Feeping Creatures Sea Serpent necklace

You will never be lost at sea with this handy talisman, I tell you what. (Unless being eaten by a sea monster counts as "lost"? I dunno. Seems like you'd know where you were - in the belly of a monster!)

Eyeball Leviathan - Feeping Creatures monster figurine

Something's gotta take on the task of cleaning up any spilled sailors. If the spill happens because the monster "accidentally" bumped the boat, well, whatayagonnado?

Feeping Creatures Eyeball Leviathan figurine

A variation on an old favorite.

Feeping Creatures Tentacle Barnacle Figurine

This barnacle is known to affix itself to nauseatingly cute creatures, thereby restoring balance and harmony to the universe. It nourishes itself upon the moment sappy sentiment gives way to perplexed horror, as the viewer of the original nauseatingly cute creature shifts from "Awww!" to "Ewww!"

Feeping Creatures Plesiosaur Dinosaur Figurine

This here is Plessy the Plesiosaur of Loch Pless. It may please you to learn that Plessy is not any kind of a hoax, but a true flesh 'n' blood (or polymer clay, at any rate) entity.

Feeping Creatures Blue Whale Figurine

The first feeps of 2012 have begun rising from the depths and crawling from the crevices. I'll be adding them to the Etsy store throughout the week. Let us begin with the tiniest version of the largest animal on earth.

Feeping Creatures Green & Black Squid Necklace

If all goes according to plan (and when does it ever fail to do so?), I will get crankin' on some new monsters this afternoon. O my yes.

Feeping Creatures Sea Serpent Necklace

This feep likes to hang around your ocean-neck. Ha ha. Get it? Ocean-neck? Oceanic? No? Okay, fine. Whatever.

Tentacle Squid Monster Necklace

For all your tentacle-accessorizing needs.

Tentacle Barnacle

I finally managed to get the last of the 2011 feeps listed in the Feeping Creatures Etsy store.

Now, we merely wait to see what new monsters shall squiggle forth in 2012 ...

Coil Eel

Despite the bulbous eyes, this eel actually has poor eyesight and must navigate by taste.

Swirled Sea Turtle

Just chillin' by the lagoon. Or, in this case, tiny spring-fed puddle (but to a feep-sized creature that's as good as a lagoon).

Bee-Striped Octopus

This feep is trying to lurk in the shadows, but it's a bit too sunny here.

Purple Squid Coil Necklace

The feeps' run at Austin Books is nearly over! Last weekend for the show (though it be a long weekend for many of you), so hie thee hence and get yer feep on!

Sea Turtle with Red Noses

When I found out the red noses for this year's Red Nose Day were monster noses, I had a friend in England send me a set in exchange for a donation to their team. [They are actually red; that orange splotch is a combination of the flashlight I was using to illuminate the scene and the crappiness of my creaky old digital camera.]

It seemed natural to pose a monster with the monsters, so here we are.

The lion, by the way, is Clayborn, an important member of the menagerie of my youth.

Tentacle Squid Wine Charm

Hard to type a caption, given that one hand is currently trapped under a cat.

Coil Fish

If you are a predator who feasts on earnest young poets, the base of a microphone stand at a coffee shop is not a bad place to hang out.

Green Lamprey

The lamprey wonders if perhaps the time has come to parasitically attach oneself to a new host ...