By: Chris Stead

Goth Help Us is a humanity based group focused on what the Goth culture can do for humanity, as the motto says, “Serving humanity from the underground up.” Started by Rebecca Hohm in mid-July of 2006, this organization that has been around for a mere 1 year has been growing by leaps [...]

By: Chris Stead

Goth Help Us, San Diego

Synchonicity is the best way to describe the chain of events that occurred to make Goth Help Us San Diego happen as it did. A negative act with positive repercussions. Goth Help Us as a whole is still a new organization and at the precise time [...]

By: Chris Stead and Rebecca Davis

Make a Shadowbox

Okey dokey folks, Rebecca come up with yet another fun and fairly easy project this go-round. If you have a bunch of stuff laying around that you would really like to have framed and hanging on your wall, then this is the project for you. [...]

By: Chris Stead and Rebecca Davis

Make a Gothy Jewelry Box

This month Rebecca was talking to me and telling me that she realizes that lots of Goths have a ton of jewelry. With this in mind, they need some place to store it. Personally I am guilty of being particularly bad about how [...]

By: Chris Stead
Creating your own Gothic Candle Holder

This month Rebecca shows us how to take an old piece of architectural salvage and turn it into a candle holder that can be hung on the wall. Before you dive headlong into this project, there are a few things that you are going to need [...]

By: Asherra

Decorating for the Dark Days of Winter

In the past few years the gothic community has been relatively blessed with the popularity of classic Victorian Christmas decorations featuring a dark pallet of rich velvets, deep reds, blues, and greens. Simple decorations for elegant holiday décor including white or cream colored lights, velvet table [...]

By: Chris Stead

Home Projects for the Crafty

Making a Message and Photo Board

This month Rebecca graced us with a re-vamp of a message board. If you’re not familiar with message and photo boards, they are boards, covered in batting and hung from a wall where you can put messages, photos, fliers or whatever. [...]

By: Chris Stead

Shopping for the Thrifty

(Tips by Rebecca Davis)

So, you want to Goth up your house but you are running on a tight budget? Do you think that this is an impossible task? I say absolutely not! This is exactly what thrift stores were made for! Now before you go [...]

By: Chris Stead

Home Projects

Pillows and Chairs

(Project ideas from Rebecca Davis)

This month we have two projects to help you Goth up your living space, one small and one a little larger. Let’s take a look.
Pillow coverings:

Anyone can come up with cheap pillows. But how do you take those cheap pillows and make them [...]