About Us

     Just a little about us. We are Santa Muerte House. We are comprised of three people. My mom is the statue-maker and mold maker. My husband is our apprentice. I handle just about everything else. You can call me Mr. E, I help by taking photos, setting up the etsy shop, packaging and shipping orders, handle the social media, all of the customer service and now I run this blog.

    My mother and I started this shop recently after we had both left our jobs. I was working in public education as a high school Spanish teacher. Mom was working at a certain distributor, the name of which I will not disclose. She did bookkeeping, payroll, invoices, customer acquisition, a little bit of everything really. After becoming tired of being overworked and underpaid, we decided to start a small family run business together.

    Our mission is making all things Santa Muerte more accessible. We noticed that there is a bit of a gap. We noticed that her statues, her figurines, her items like amulets, rosaries, prayer cards were not readily available here in the US as it was in México. If it was available, it would be in Spanish much to the dismay of many devotees that are not Spanish speakers.

    In the beginning, we started by bringing in everything from México ourselves. Statues, rosaries, keychains, prayer cards you name it we would bring it here and ship it all over the US. It felt good to be able to make these items more attainable to those who wanted or needed these things. We were relatively close to México being situated in Texas, and we would visit México often enough so it was no problem. We had great success in our sales but in particular we couldn't keep statues on our shelves. After some time it became apparent to us that we needed to take matters into our own hands. We were already offering some items we made in house like bracelets, we figured it was natural that we start making the statues in house too.

    My mom and I went through lots of trial and error with learning how to make silicone rubber molds to cast our own statues. After some time we finally got the hang of it and the medium we use to make the statues. Once a statue is ready to be demolded, my mom paints, dresses and decorates every statue by hand that we sell. Rest assured that though a statue is not perfect it was made with a lot of love and attention.

    Making silicone molds and statues takes up most of my mother's time so I handle just about everything else. My husband is slowly learning about Santísima and how to run the shop in the even that I can't fulfill orders for any reason.

    On June 1st of 2023, we celebrated our shop's first anniversary. Even though it hasn't been too long, I have learned a lot and I also get asked similar or repeated question not just about our products like our statues but also about Santa Muerte in general. We get a lot of young people and people that are new to Santa Muerte that ask these same questions. It became apparent to me that information is also not very readily available either. Maybe it's a lack of literature in English, maybe it's because the community of Santa Muerte is spread out across a vast country like the US.

    This led me to the decision to creating this blog. We don't believe in gatekeeping our knowledge and what we've learned. That's why this blog is titled "No Gates Kept," to demystify some of what we have come across and also to help answer some frequently asked questions. If you're new to this path or are considering it, I hope that this blog is able to help you along your journey.

Blessings,

Mr. E

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