About

So what is a Widdershindig?

Good question. Widdershindig is a small studio and Etsy shop. It’s run by me, Emily. I’ve been drawing I was old enough to hold a pencil and making the drawings into things you can buy since 2023. This site is the slightly more respectable front parlor for those drawings — a place to browse collections, read the occasional design note, and find out what’s new before it sells out.

And the drawings themselves? Mothman having a prophetic moment. A frog in a cravat playing the banjo. A black cat who would very much like to be left alone. Some are spooky. Some are cute. A surprising number are both. I draw everything by hand (no clip art, no AI), because the weirdness has to come from somewhere real.

Why the name? Widdershins means counterclockwise — the wrong way around, the way that goes against the grain. A shindig is a party. Put them together and you get a party going the wrong way, which is pretty much the vibe around here.

If you’d like to take any of these creatures home with you, visit the Etsy shop. If you’d like to see what we’ve been up to lately, check the journal. And if you’ve read this far, you’re probably our kind of people.