MEOW!

Doodle of kitty plush for the KC Humane Society's Art Unleashed art auction.

GESUNDHEIT ;)

After finishing up my other monster guy I decided he'd make a great tissue box cozy. I just turned the tissue box on the side so you can pull the tissues out of its mouth. I think it needs colored tissues though. Both of these measure 7"Wx7"Hx7"D. Made of fleece, felt, and faux fur.

XMAS IN JULY

So it's as hot as hell here in the midwest and I'm tired of being hot. Instead of working on projects I should be working on I decided put together this doll house that's been sitting around in our garage for a year. So for the last few weeks, off and on, I've been putting this house together and decorating it. Can you tell I'm looking forward to cooler weather.

This is Santa's house. I decided that we didn't need another "doll" house in our house. My daughter has my old doll house as well as the Calico Critters house. That's when I decided to turn this doll house kit into Santa's house and we'll just bring it out at Christmas and set it up. Of course all my daughter wants to do is play with it now and keeps asking me if I'm done yet. It's hard to explain to a three year old that it's really only to play with at Christmas. So for now it's in my studio on the floor and she comes down to play with it.

I have not found a decent looking or decent priced Santa and Mrs.Claus dolls. I'm thinking that, around the holidays, I'd like to get the figures from the Rankin & Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. They'll look pretty good in the house. I just hope they are available this year.



I made a color comp of the house before I started.  You can see it changed a bit.



This was my inspiration for the house. I used it as wallpaper in the house too. This was left over Michael Miller fabric from a skirt I made my daughter last year.





I wish I had this kitchen!



Santa's workshop. Still need to add a tree, chalkboard, wrapped presents and other toys.



Santa's room.



Santa's office/sitting room. I need to find a wingback chair for Santa to sit in.



I can see how people can really get into making doll houses and miniatures. It was fun decorating the house. I've actually thought it would be fun to buy a Victorian doll house kit and decorate it as a haunted house. I might just have to do that.

POLYHEDRA MONSTER

The head measures 7" square. he stands 18" tall.

Two more are in the works

NO STUFFING NEEDED

I FINALLY started working on my mosters. I need to get movin'. This is the time of year I start thinking about the end of year shows, Art Unleashed, Halloween and before I know it it will be Christmas. From July till the first part of January things get pretty busy.

So I decided not to stuff these plush. I really wanted them to be square and have straight edges. Stuffing them would not have worked. So I made some boxes out of foam core and wrapped them.

Above pic of box cut out of foam core but not assembled.



All folded up. I didn't even bother glueing it together. I just taped it shut. Not gonna see the tape so it doesn't matter what it looks like.



Outside skin.



Here's a glimpse of what his face will  look like in the end. Everything is just pinned in place.

So far he is super light weight. This will make for cheap mailing, which is GREAT! My stuff tends to be heavy which makes shipping expensive. So once I spend money on shipping and split the sales with the gallery I typically make very little or just break even. So I think I'm onto something with the foam core structure!!