MORE X-Mas Mayhem!!!

Roxxy has come in from the cold, after being convinced by a man in a bee suit that she "Done hah tah poo ow da red lie". She wasn't sure what it meant, but she was cold and decided to pack her bags and head to Miami. Not a lot for a Reindeer to do in Miami, so she got a job dancing at a Gentlemen's Club, which just happened to be hosting a rather large convention of Santa's Helpers. Several song sets (and pitchers of beer) the Helpers had Roxxie convinced to travel north with them, which lead her to wonder what new adventure her life was about to embark upon!




Santa has it hard every year, but this year has been crazier than he expected! First, half his mall helpers got bit by zombies, so Santa had to fly off to fight them and send them back to hell. Then, the other half decided to start home-brewing, which led to a ton of Sexy Santa sightings around the globe. You see, this special batch of Candy Cane Porter causes pudgy middle aged guys to drop trou and sing show tunes on corners! So, now Santa has to fly about the earth, convincing all this happy crooners to get back to work! Wait till he sees what the elves have been up to!

Baby Squidleighs love the holidays! Every year, you can see these silly little squids flitting around in their Santa costumes, visiting squids less fortunate than themselves, singing songs, and leaving presents for the poor!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jean-Pierre had it harder than most reindeer, and unlike some OTHER often heralded hoof-stock, never got to play in any reindeer games of any kind, ever. Jean-Pierre was often teased and ridiculed merely for being French-Canadian, an no matter how hard he tried to prove himself, he was always put back in his place. He recently decided to prove to the world that French Canadians are peachy by embarking on a world tour with William Shatnern, the famous French Canadian that played a drunk womaniser in the 1960's classic Bar Trek. Hopefully, things will start to improve for Jean-Pierre!

Monday Update!

So, I really SHOULD be crocheting but thought I'd take a moment to update the bloggy.  Another busy & prolific week @ Grimmleigh's Labs...here's what's going on.

Candice REALLY LUVS her Grimmleighs!

We submit, for your viewing pleasure, the loverly Candice (and her sassy hat) posing with her new friends!
(We LUV Fan Fotos!  send your picture of your grimmleigh in it's new habitat/with it's new family to  grimmleighsfiends@yahoo.com or post it on our fanpage on the FB!)

Been experimenting with fuzzy yarns to get some different effects. These are some Persian Kitty Kats for a custom order. ( You also get a rare view of what they look like BEFORE LGK works his painting magic.)


Did you even know that we do customs? Well yesindeedlydoo we do! Still taking orders for the holidays too as a matteroffact, so....if you'd like a custom one-of-a-kind (OOAK to the hip & in the know) of your beloved furry friend email us for details/quotes! What a FANTASTIC Holiday Gift (if we do say so ourselves!)

Also posted this weekend....MORE DRUNKY ELVES!!!  and don't forget there are tons of Stocking Stuffers (produce of peril, baby squidleighs & ornaments) at the etsyshoppe ALL priced under $10!!!

Order online now or visit us @ the Craft Sabbath Holiday Boutique(s) on the 5th and 12th!

another FAN FOTO!!

Baby Blue Squidleigh surfin' the net!  Thanks Anette!

If you have a picture of your grimmleigh in his/her new habitiat...send it to us!  grimmleighsfiends@yahoo.com or post it on our fan page on FB!!

New Business Cards!

While we were gearing up for the Big Holiday Shows, we decided we needed some new business cards. New, as in we never had any. Then came the hard part: With hundreds of one of a kind monsters made already, how to pick which one to put on the card? Well, we picked 12. Here's a preview of a few of our favorites!

Ho Ho Ho!

Who you callin' a ho?????
Busy weekend @ Grimmleigh's Labs :)  Gettin' ready for the big shows on the 5th and 12th

New this weekend.....holiday items!  Available in the etsy shop and @ craft sabbath holiday boutique!
(also, don't forget to make us your friend on FB for a chance to win your own clutch o' Jolly Eye-Bally ornaments)

Oh no! How will the holidays turn out this year? First, all of Santa's mall helpers were bit by zombies, causing Santa to load up the old sleigh with tons of munitions and hunt the bastards down. Then, the reindeer took up gambling and lost the toy shop, causing all the elves to look for other things to do. They found nothing, so turned to HARD DRINKING! Help rehabilitate some elves today, before it's too late!


The Drunk Little Elf is a one of a kind, hand crafted original! The process for each and every Grimmleigh's Fiend guaranties it's uniqueness; Rachel crochets a body and sews on a muslin "face", which Leigh paints the hideously cute details on with non toxic acrylic paints. We don't follow any patterns or templates, and suffer from short attention spans!

Coming soon....more Produce of Peril, Reindeer and......Sexy Santa (?!?!?!?)

Fan Foto!

Check out Bortleburn in his new habitat! 
We love pics of our fiends w/ their new families so feel free to share & we'll post 'em here!
email to  grimmleighsfiends@yahoo.com or put 'em on our fan page on the FB!
Franks!

New this week!

Been doing some catch-up and restocking for the big holiday shows in December...got some new items listed in the etsy shop this week though :)  YAY! These Grimmleigh's Fiends and more are available at http://www.blackfezstudios.etsy.com/ and don't forget to enter our contest (details in the previous post!)  just make us your friend on the FaceBooks and win a clutch of Jolly Eye Balls!

Meet Marianne the MerMonkey:
Marianne the Mermonkey has a lovely singing voice and a sweet dispossition, yet feels that she will always be alone. This makes Marianne a very sad Mermonkey, so she sits on the rocks and sings Billie Holiday songs as the ships pass by in the night. Little does Marianne know, but one night her sad song was heard by Maurice the Deck Monkey, who has undertaken an extraordinary expedition to find the monkey attached to the sad songs he's been hearing!


You've heard of the Boogie-Man, right? How about the Worgie Man? Well, we should say Worgie MEN, to be honest. Far, far away, in the middle of the Sea of Neam, lies the Island of the Worgie Men. There are a few Worgie Women, too, but they are far too fearsome to mention here. Many myths circulate around the world about these fantastical creatures, but few have ventured to explore their treachorous land, since one would have to navigate the Kingdom of Squidleighs just to set foot on it's formidable shores. Doctor Horatio Grimmleigh has been several times, and has secured (at great risk to his mighty Luchadores) many amazing Worgie-Man specimens!

Rondarg was happy on his little island, fishing for cat fish with a mouse on a hook. Unfortunatly for Rondarg, a Saber-Tooth catfish found him and ate all of his mice, his hutt, and several of his children's toes. Rondarg made a terrible vow of vengeance and set out to capture the Saber-tooth catfish, and hasn't been seen by his family since. Please, give Rondarg a safe place to stay while he gets his bearings!

 
 
 
 

Ubblegubb Squidleigh used to be a pretty fun loving squid, until the "incident". Ubblegubb used to have this dream that he got out of bed, ate breakfast, then left for work completely naked. He would wake up, have a good laugh, and get ready for work. Then, as fate would have it, every Squid in the Kingdom of Squidleighs stopped wearing clothes, and poor, modest-yet-fun Ubblegubb had to adapt to swimming about starkers. Perhaps a change of setting would do Ubblegubb's nerves some good!


 
 
 

Grumpnorg is a living example of that warning your mom used to give you about your face getting stuck with a certain expression on it. Grumpnorg hated to eat vegetables with a passion, and his mom was a free-spirited hippy-squid. Grumpnorg had it bad going to hippy-squid school (he thought himself rather punk), but it got even worse when he got home for dinner. Veggies! YUCK! He would stare at his plate of Brussel's Sprouts, SCOWLING madly, until one day, with a mighty POP! his face was stuck. Forever.

New Contest For All Our Creecher Peeps!

We love Holidays, even the over-commercialized ones. Because, well, we know we can make them BETTER. How's that? Well, you have to start with the basics. And our newest item, the Jolly Eye-Ballies, fits that bill perfectly. They're hand made, so you're decking your alpine shrine to the shopping gods with something a little less mass-produced! And they're reasonably priced, at only FIVE bucks a piece. And best of all, you could win some for free, too! Just become a fan of Grimmleighs over on Facebook. We'll be picking one of our fans at the end of November to get a gruesome little set of three Jolly Eye-Ballies! Wanna check out the rest? Head over to our Etsy shop today!

monkey see....

you know the rest.  Anyhoo...part deux of our updating/retrospective posts.
 

(our first monkey!)
This is Bo-Bo, and he just escaped from the circus, where he was forced to drive a tiny car full of clowns. He is looking for a new place to hide out, preferably clown free, with some wide open spaces for him to lounge about on!









Foo Foo Monkey has been getting angry at life's increasingly counfounding "conveniences". He got his tail stuck in an escalator, his foot slammed into in elevator, and an iPod earbud stuck up his nose. He turned to Zen meditation to help him stay calm, but got his fingers stuck in the DVD tray while removing his instructional disk. Poor Foo Foo needs somewhere to relax and unwind, before he blows his top!






Jim-Jim is not your average monkey; Sure, he has a fez, but he also has a secret. A secret so horribly earth-shattering, he dare not let anyone know! Problem is, Jim-Jim is a bit of a binge-drinker, which means almost everyone around him has heard his secret. Help Jim-Jim find a safe place to hide out and keep his secret safe!!






Clint the Monkey was the youngest simian ever admitted to the Monkey School of Magic. He excelled in all subjects for several years, until a horrible accident in his Potions Brewing class changed his life forever; While stirring in some Hensbane for a love potion, his friend Fobert threw a banana at him, and while ducking, Clint upended the entire potion over his head. He has since had to leave the Monkey School of Magic, because he falls instantly in love with whatever he is looking at. Clint the Lovestruck Monkey was last seen wandering around a bowling alley, propopsing to first a bowling ball, then an old pair of shoes! Perhaps you can bring Clint home, and give him something to focus all his energies on!




Adventure had a name, then adventure got old and retired! Then adventure came back, and took his son to the jungle! During an exciting race against crazy Russkies, it turns out that Adventure, Jr. could talk to monkeys and lead them into battle. This exciting turn of events led to a new leader amongst the monkeys; Inbanana Jones! Wielding his trusty whip and fedora, Inbanana Jones fights the forces of evil and tyrany everywhere he goes!
(this guy even had a whip!)





Wally is a monkey with a dream; every morning, he gets up out of his soft, monkey bed, puts on his nice, red vest, and walks to a parking lot. The parking lot is empty, save for a large cardboard box. Wally stands by the front of the box and waits, hoping and praying for the day some lucky old lady comes to the big box. When that day comes, Wally knows he will stand up straight, look that old lady in the eye, and proudly shove her into the box. If everything goes as planned, Wally should have his traveling Old Lady Circus up and going with the year

(this guy is new!  and part of our new "mini" line - smaller grimmleigh's = smaller price!)
Oh, the life of a teen-aged monkey! Skating, eating, tagging, gaming, eating, sleeping, hanging out, eating, sleeping, complaining, sleeping, and if time permits, eating. Most of these fiendish little primates are pretty well behaved while you're keeping an eye on them, but let your attention slip for just one minute, and they're off with your beer and your Benny Hill VHS tape collection! Help us get one of these monkeys off the streets and into a good home!



As always, if you like what you see please check out our shop on etsy and make us your facebook friend!!!

critters past

We're in the process of catching up on posting stories & pics of Grimmleigh's we've made over the past few months.  Many of these guys have found new homes but we wanted to have a written record w/ pictures for posterity.  If you like what you see, please check out our etsy shop and/or make us your friend on the facebooks!!  Remember, we're constantly making new fiends, and we do custom orders!!!  http://www.blackfezstudios.etsy.com/

Today, I think we'll start w/ the Worgie Monsters

Meet Mungle: He likes to stay in doors and hide, because he has a very serious fear of children, specifically children with pruning sheers. He spends most of his time building up the nerve to go out to fetch the mail, which he hasn't been able to do succesfully since the Great Cub Scout Topiary Event of 2005. Poor Mungle. Maybe you can help him!
(on a side note: our daughter loved this guy so much that she cried when he sold - so we made her her own version in purple!)




Jumberson used to have it all; nice house, super-model wife, three and a half kids and a six-figure salary. Then, one dark and stormy day, he was cursed by a vengeful gypsy chihuahua and turned into a Wurgie-Monster. Now, Jumberson wanders the land, searching for a pretty lady, half a kid, and six stalks of celery. Help bring an end to Jumberson's suffering. He only snores a little!

Meet Skitts: One afternoon Skitts had a nervous breakdown trying to figure out what to watch on the tellie, and ate 15 pounds of chocolate. The next day, Skitt's friends asked where he would like to eat, and his head nearly exploded!This poor creature can't make up his mind about anything, and needs a little guidance!

Everyone has those weaknesses that get the better of them; you might find yourself snacking while on a diet, stealing candy from babies, heck, you might even be a compulsive woodchuck licker! For anyone who has ever wondered WHY we have these weaknesses, the Horatio Grimmleigh Institute for the Study and Preservation of Para-Zooloigical Species has found the answer! It appears that a race of shadow creatures lurk around us all, using their hypnotic powers to bend us to their will!

Beware Shemp and his evil powers of hypnosis! Shemp is the Dark Lord of Snark, always waiting about with a subliminal push to cause a person to make sarcastic comments about others... Bring Shemp the Hypnofiend into the light, before he strikes again
 

Umberto Dimbley is one of the most incredibly famous Cyclopsids that has ever been known, and his star is only rising higher! Uberto started his own television station when he was only four months old, featuring a 24 hour reality news feed of him eating different brands of cereal. When Umberto was five and a half years old, he introduced his own line of designer under-garments, then went on tour promoting his book, "One Thousand Jokes About Poo". Umberto had a bit of a nervous breakdown lately, and needs a place to relax and forget about the stress of fame!
 
 
 

Julio has been fanatically loving things for as long as he can remember; first, it was his baby-sitter Claudetter, for whom he wrote an epic ballad using building blocks with letters on them, but she was illiterate. Then, Julio fell hard for a little red fire truck, which he eloped with to the south of France. After a passionate courtship, Julio started seeing a stamp collection on the side, which led to a stormy split from both. Now, Julio lies in wait at random swimming pools, hoping against hope for a lonely pair of water-wings to happen by. Help Julio get the love he needs, bring him home today!
   

Flobby has been feeling a bit down lately, since his favorite thing to do has forced a terrible fate upon him! Flobby used to while away the hours at a local tavern, prying bottle-caps off of beer bottles with his teeth for a quarter. He was not only amassing a sizeable fortune, he was becoming a local legend! Then, the unthinkable happened; Flobby's teeth started to crack and go crooked. Now, poor Flobby has to wear braces, which wiped out his fortune. Maybe you can give Flobby a safe place to stay!
 
 
 
   

There once was a boy named Carlton, who's only thought was eating candy. His mother tried everything she could to get him to stop, but nothing worked. Finally, discouraged, his mother went to a witch doctor, and asked for help. The kindly witch doctor gave her some magical candy corn, which the relieved mother took home to offer to her son. As long as he only took a nibble an hour, his craving for candy would be kept in check. Imagine the poor mother's horror, though, as her greedy son snatched the enchanted goody from her hand and gulped it down! The next day, Carlton learned his lesson the hard way, and has been cursed to wander the earth, a living lesson in the dangers of candy obsession.

mark yer calendars!

Custom Evil Bunny for Candice

This damned evil thing keeps screaming that it belongs to Candice, then humps our poor cat.  Shortly before posting this...he coughed up a chewed up pair of boxer shorts. Ugh Whoever you are, Candice, you need to get this thing away from us!

Thanks Andi!

Here is our friend Andi and her accidentally-look-alike Ninja Pal

Got a picture with your Grimmleigh?  Or a picture of your Grimmleigh in it's new "habitat"???
send 'em to us! 

Ack! It's the Holidays!

Okay, we survived our favorite Holiday of the year that isn't Christmas in high style. We adopted out a pretty good number of monsters, and have about a month to get ready for the Craft Sabbath Holiday Bazzaar. Now, being pretty big monster nuts, you know we have a lot in store for Christmas! We're working on a big batch of gruesomely cute tree ornaments, Zombie Santas, sexy reindeer, and really drunk elves. Should be a holiday season for the record books! More to come, kids!