Mon Petit Fantome's Fairytales.

Vasilisa.

Baba Yaga.

While all of Chad Merritt's recent additions to the Mon Petit Fantome etsy store have me utterly entranced, these two papercut prints are particularly amazing.

Evoking images from two of the most frightening fairytales, they're so full of movement and magic.

Shadow Sisters.

This beautiful papercut print by Mon Petit Fantome was waiting for me when I got home this evening - in time for Halloween, although I know I will enjoy it all year round. So delicate and delightfully dark.

Now I must seek out a frame to do these Shadow Sisters justice; and hopefully acquire some companions for them - it's so hard to pick, but at the moment I especially love Now My Dears, Time To Learn Levitation and Where Do They Bury Witches, as well as Our Nighttime Escape, to name only a few...

Essentially, I love them all. The skill involved in crafting them is evident, and they are so evocative - magical and macabre at the same time. These qualities, combined with the black & white colour scheme, coincidentally cohere beautifully with my current bedtime reading - Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus - which I can't wait to praise in a later post.

Meanwhile, enjoy the inspirations of the man behind Mon Petit Fantome, Chad Merritt, on his blog, here.