Sonic Meets Mario

From The Daily Squee today:

More Wintry Amanitas

Expanding on yesterday’s Xmas theme, here are some winter, holiday and new year vintage images featuring fly agarics (they never seem to run out).

Amanita Ornaments

Not at all the right time of year for this, but here’s a selection of Amanita-related Xmas ornaments:

(Last image from Reckless Glue.)

Elsa Beskow

I’ve been remiss in not mentioning Elsa Beskow before now. She was a Swedish author/illustrator of children’s books, some of which feature charming forest dwellers capped with Amanita mushrooms. A few of my favorites:

And finally, Nushkie on Etsy made a needle-felted version of Beskow’s mushroom children!

A Forest of Amanita

In this painting by Basia-AlmostTheBrave on deviantart, a girl walks a winged horse through a forest of – what else – A. muscaria. Love the dreamy quality of this one.

Fly Agaric Beret

From the mad_hattery Livejournal community: chronographia posts photos of their gorgeous hand-knitted and felted fly agaric beret.

Fairies and Mushrooms

A round-up of art featuring fairies and fly agaric:

“Amanita” by Jade Bengco (who incorrectly identifies the mushroom as the Death Cap, a relative that looks nothing like A. muscaria)

“Celtic Amanita Faery” by Suzanne Gyseman

“Mushroom Fairy” by Brett Mohr

“Small Things” by Selina Fenech

“Fairy on Mushroom” – artist unknown

and one more, in a different style that I quite like:

“Fairy Mushroom” by Peter Pracownik