February 28, 2007
Gertrude and Clementine
(Fleece stuffies with felt faces and cotton clothing. The pants are actually pinstriped, but I can't seem to catch that with my camera. By the way, this is another one of the stuffies we made years and years ago that I mentioned in the previous post.)
February 18, 2007
Bailey Monster
February 17, 2007
A Year Wiser
Here is the mixed media card I made for Misha. Another chubby sleeping face, but this time in a ribbon and paper landscape. Maybe a set of these would be nice? Hmmm.
Published!
February 16, 2007
Secret Cuteness
Instead I made a serious case, with secret cuteness. We are the bunny family, so I made embroidered a tiny bunny family. From a distance it looks like nothing more than a serious monogram.
(For the "Project" category.)
February 15, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14, 2007
Household Waste
This month's Whiplash competition is to creatively recycle "normal" household waste - but of course, what constitutes normal waste must change dramatically from home to home. Since Lara was born we've become accustomed to two kinds of now-normal waste - the adorable clothes she grows out of almost on a weekly basis and the seemingly non-disposable objects she unwittingly destroys.
I've recycled a few of these into this Robot Girl stuffie. The only non-reused material is the thread that holds her together - otherwise she is made of baby clothes, stuffed with cut up baby blankets; her (fully pressable) buttons are the insides of a now deceased calculator, and her (turnable) dial is a piece of a chewed up ruler.
Currently Robot Girl is a little more than half full. She has decorated her living space with a sketch portrait of her grandfather.
(Submitted to the 1st category of the contest.)