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\"Night_5_2\"<\/a>These furry monster journals created by Sarah Jane Evans<\/a> are hungry for only one thing… your nightmares.  All you have to do is recite the spell that is printed inside the journal:<\/p>\n

I’m called a Nightmare Snatcher
And a daymare catcher too.
I snatch up all the frightening things
And keep them far from you.<\/p>\n

Scary dreams and scary thoughts
And things you dread to see;
Terrors real or make-believe
Give them all to me.<\/p>\n

Write them down and draw them out
I’ll help you face the fear.
Then close me up, I’ll snatch them tight
And keep them trapped in here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

… and they’ll take care of the rest.\"Night_1_2\" \"Night_2_3\"  <\/span><\/p>\n

I had the opportunity to ask Sarah a few questions about her wild creatures…<\/span><\/p>\n

How did all this get started?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Nightmare Snatchers actually started as a class assignment at my college, the Rhode Island School of Design. We were asked to make a product, anything we wanted so long as we could make it for the RISD student sale. I knew right away what I wanted to make something that evoked the same feeling I strived for in my illustrative work, something whimsical and magical. So, while I was in a book store one day I found a "dream journal", and I thought to myself "Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to write down your nightmares than your dreams?" From there the Nightmare Snatchers were just a natural solution to what a nightmare journal would be like. My dad wrote the spell for them and after that they just took on a life of their own.\"Night_6_2\" \"Night_4_2\" <\/p>\n

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What inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything of a mystical or fantastic nature has always inspired me. I remember being convinced as a child that so many things in my house that were old and\/or strange must be filled with magic. Especially books. Books, the old ones in particular, have an undeniable magical quality to them. You open a book and there’s no telling where it might lead you. I have a huge library myself and am considered by many to be quite the bibliomaniac.\"Night_3\" \"Night_7\" <\/p>\n

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What is your favorite part about the design process?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoy finding a personality in the creatures I make. Some look irritated and some look worried, but even when you make two from the same pattern they always find a character of their own. It’s the surprises that make the designing fun. The individuality that the pieces seem to create all by themselves.<\/p>\n

If you have any haunts giving you the creeps, you can purchase these scary snatchers for only $20 on Sarah’s Etsy site<\/a>. (I love the green one… it looks like he got a black eye battling the bad guys:-)<\/p>\n