Halloween is over for another year and fans of all things spooky are starting to miss their favourite bats, ghosts and pumpkins. But have no fear Spooky Christmas is just around the corner!
More and more alternative small businesses are embracing the festive season with Santa hats on all of our Halloween favourites in beautiful shades of Goth. Baubles, crackers, stockings, gift wrap, cards, and of course the gifts to go around the tree - a black one naturally!
Here is my guide to some of the best alternative businesses I know to make your Gothmas extra special this festive season.
Now if you're like me as well as getting gifts I like to get my cards nice and early and post them at the start of December. Well Mor Cards by Tania has the most amazing alternative cards I have ever seen!
If you are looking for crackers, gifts, baubles, and well a bit of everything really Emma at The Pink Unicorn can probably help you out. Spooky, festive and with a hint of pastel goth!
Let's talk gifts! One thing I personally love is jewellery and I've got 3 very different businesses for you next.
Starting with the beautifully unique and Stunning Twilight Couture. Bex makes the most amazing head pieces.
Then we have Sam from Madimimagpie with her mixed media pieces. All handcrafted in a fabulous gothic vibe.
If you love one of a kind and silver then you need to visit Esh London. Esh makes stunning silver jewellery and if you love coffins you will definitely need this page!
If jewellery is not what you seek, how about some pieces for your home? Twizted Home Designs has everything a goth desires in a dark palette of colours with bats, pumpkins and of course coffins.
We all love a bit of pampering at christmas right? Well I know just the business! Bathkraft sell magical potion bottles of bubble bath, lotions and cosmetics. The bottles are just as amazing as the contents!
I’m also rather partial to a bath bomb or 2 and Darkside Cosmetics have some amazing ones.
I think one of my favourites was one in the shape of a toaster.
With pampering comes healing, and I know a lot of you love everything natural and witchy and The Enchanted Annex is a bit of everything. Full of potions, ingredients, crystals, tarot and more.
Here's a few more alternative businesses I can recommend:
- Gothic Fusion for your Victorian gothic inspired jewellery
- Wishful Willow for the most gorgeous crystal jewellery
- Agni Prasada Burning creates amazingly detailed wood burnings including bats, ghosts and brooms!
- Neon Rainbow Goes Dark with all of her cards, gift tags, stationary and prints
- Angel's Magical Crafts for Gothic baubles and all things witchy!
- Stitchcrvft make the cutest little ghosts you ever did see.
- Rinky Dink Candles create the most gorgeous scented candles and melts.
- Giraffe Craft make all sorts of gothic bags, key rings, and embroidery work
- The Kindred Bizzare online and a physical shop in Keighley West Yorkshire selling all things goth and witchy (including Head Geek accessories )
How ever you celebrate christmas/gothmas/spookymas/Yule this year, I hope you can support some of these wonderful small businesses. It will really make their year!