NEW arrivals

We're very pleased this year to have found some very unusual additions to our offerings. Angela brought back some wonderfully well decorated "real" sugar skulls from the Sugar Skull Fair in Toluca and they are delightful things to keep you company next to your computer if you work late! Diego Rivera had many sugar skulls in his studio so we should too!

There are some items that will delight collectors in all price ranges; we have a new big shipment of Gigantic papier mache skulls and dangling skeletons. The entire page of Classroom & Party Supplies is new. The most fun item is the new sugar skull sugar cookie cutters that Angela & Kathi designed so you can decorate a skull that tastes good this year!

We hope you continue to add to your folk art collections, keep building your home ofrendas, decorating those sugar skulls, eating great food, tequila and mezcal and enjoying life with those important to you while we celebrate the spirits of our departed loved ones.

New t-shirts

Cowboy Skeleton Guitar Playing T-shirt in Blue This boutique, small run T-shirt is wearable all year long! The Texan artist created a nice graphic with lots of little dice, symbols, birds and stars in the background. It will take you til next May to decipher the meaning to this shirt. Heavy quality men's short sleeve black shirt with graphic on the front. T5024-M - medium | T5024-L - large | T5024-XL - extra large $23 each		Cowboy with Guitar in Red Black men's short sleeve T-shirt. Artwork by Texan artist. You don't have to be a Texan to like this one! T5025-M - medium $23 each (out) T5025-L - large $23 each T5025-XL - extra large $23 each

Art in the Kitchen Potholders see larger image for details Day of the Dead Potholders Artist Joan McDonald is an imaginative and talented watercolor artist living in New Mexico. Her humorous take on skeletons and iconic Southwest designs are delightful. Great gifts and functional in the kitchen, these large potholders are a great addition to any cocina or hostess gift at a Sugar Skull party! Take time to really look at her art. Potholders are approx. 10" x 8" see larger image for details Virgin of Guadalupe with her morning cup of coffee! Surrounded by a good book, croissant offering cherubs and trying to sit in her cumbersome dress, Guadalupe starts her day with a cup of joe before her arduous duties of being Latin America's most venerated Virgin. Virgin of Guadalupe A1226 $13 each Morning Coffee with Bone Dog & Bunny Slippers This haggard skeleton may have partied too much on Nov 1 & 2... nursing a headache, even the hummingbird wings annoy... as her bone dog & cat are consoling. A1229 $13 each see larger image for details Serenade with Trashy Novel & Cigarette Skeleton seems unimpressed with window serenade as she drinks her coffee in no doubt Victoria Secret house shoes! A1230 $13 each Cocina Posada Shows women skeletons working hard, grinding tortillas and plucking a chicken while the man of the house is taking off to play guitar with the boys! A1227 $13 each Door of the Dead Spirits from the after-life are very excited to be arriving to the door of their loved ones on November 2, ready to party and eat watermelon. A1228 $13 each

Sugar Skull Coin Purses - Cute little leather zipper coin purses Leather carved and painted in India, a happy sugar skull is on both sides. The 3" tall purse has an inside divider to keep your pesos apart from the gringo coins! It holds about $3.50 in change. If you desire a specific color, phone us immediately after you place your order. We ship pretty fast during sugar skull season so call within 30 minutes. Otherwise, we'll choose for you. Magenta, lime green, orange or purple. A1222 $11 each

New jewelry

NEW Black Sugar Skull Earrings - 2 1/4" papel picado style cutout skulls with heart eyes. Shiny coated black metal skulls look like sugar skulls. Dangly with ear wires. Fun costume jewelry for gifts or wearing to Day of the Dead parties! India A1223 $16/pair	Shiny Sugar Skull Earrings - Metallic etched calavera dangle earring. 2 3/4" long. In Mexico, we call costume jewelry, "joya de fantasia" (fantasy jewelry)... that's exactly what this is! Day of the Dead loving folks in India made these. A1224 $14/pair

Knit Skeleton Brooch Hand knit 3" skeleton made by Peruvian women. Little pin on back. A1232 $7 each	Wood Skull Necklace Hand carved wood skull is hand painted with a silly black& white skeleton face. Fun costume jewelry to delight your returning muertos! A1225 $12 each	Winged Skull Brooch Clay skull with black leather wings. Peru. A1236 $6.50 each

Milagros Milagros are votive offerings to ask for healing in the Catholic Church. They are made many different ways around the world, but they basically are used as a symbolic image of what needs to be healed. Then hung on the wall behind the saint or on the clothing of the saint inside the church. Devout parishioners make milagros out of what they have - lost wax casting methods or hammering sheets of tin and silver are typical kinds of milagros. These are beautiful things to be cherished. Gifts to special people in your wedding, to keep on your home altar... some folks love the iconography and make earrings out of the smaller milagros. The Amor silver plate milagro, if made in sterling, would cost hundreds of dollars. It's very beautiful. Flat Tin Milagro Heart 2"high x 1 1/2" Peru  A1190 $6.50 ea Amor silver plate milagro heart 4 1/2"high x 2 3/4" Peru A1191 $16 ea Pewter flaming heart charm 1 1/4" high x 3/4" Peru A1189 $6 ea Pewter Flaming Heart charm with little flowers around the edges. Approx. 3 1/2 " h Germany  A1192 $26 ea Pewter Firenze heart charm 3 3/4" high Germany    A1193 $26 ea Flat Tin Novio Milagro 1.5 x 2" high Peru   F2072 $6.50 ea

Sugar Skull Cookie Cutters Now you can make delicious sugar cookies but decorate them like traditional Mexican sugar skulls! Kids and adults alike can gather to decorate the large 5.5 inch skull, using it as an artist's palette to make extraordinary sugary artwork! Or, if you want to make lots of little ones to eat, use the 3 inch cutter. Whether sugar skull or sugar cookie, decorate them with edible glitter, candies, colorful icing and edible luster dust. Just when you finally got the dried up icing cleaned up from your floor grout from last Christmas' cookie baking, now you can relive the fun of cookie baking in October! Your homemade sugar skull cookies will be reminiscent of the authentic Mexican sugar skulls used to celebrate Day of the Dead. Recipe card gives you a great cookie and icing recipe. If you want to order disposable icing bags, luster dust and paste food colors, go to our Mold page. Please send us photos of your cookies! We'll post them. Set contains one large, one small cookie cutter and recipe card. Our Exclusive Design ~ Designed by Angela & Kathi ~ Made in the U.S.A. A1195 $10 set

NEW market oilcloth totes Fully lined, medium tote with cool contrasting oilcloth and small enough to use as a purse! About 30% smaller than our other oilcloth tote bags - 14" x 15" x 4" USA $19.50 each
Black Istanbul CL 168 Paradise in Black & White CL 164 Day of the Dead in Yellow & Black CL 166	Pink Pears & Apples CL167 Paradise in Pink & White CL 165 Yellow Poppy CL163

New postcards

Day of the Dead Postcards - set of 6 (4" x 6") cards. Watercolor art from local artist. Skeleton ofrenda, skeleton dog, and Frida in all her abundance. B4028 $8.50 for set of 6 (two of each design)