Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Textural Demotic Dingbat

Got some good ones today, pals! First off, go visit these amazing 'taxidermied' animals by Zoe Williams. Please, go poke around because the deeper you go the better!

Yes, they are felted wool!  Unbelievable detail, and some (ummmm) 'odd' subjects!


If you've spent too long at her site, tha'ts OK because all I have for the rest of this post is from an ad from FredFlare.  I started looking around here for a couple of presents I have that are overdue and decided instead to post some of the weirder choices in the collection.  Go get your credit card so you'll be ready-  some of these things are in short supply!
 A novel writing kit, just in case you don't know where to start.
 A wienie link dog leash, hopefully smells like plastic, not hotdogs or you aren't walking anywhere.
 An inflatable turkey, for the vegans at the table who are also traditionalists.
 Day of the Dead gingerbread cookies-  a lesson that every little fat gingerbread man has a skinny guy inside, or whatever lesson you want to believe.

Below, but Blogger won't let me format the way I want to:  chewed gum magnets-  stick 'em up anywhere you want to leave a message.  Contains no DNA in case you worry about such things.
 Says it all.
 A CAT-LADY action figure, perfect for a few folks I know with litter stuck in their shoes.
 Squirrel Underpants, I guess so they don't poop sunflower hulls on the lawn.
 I used to love Nancy Drew, but it requires some translation now-  things have changed a bit since Nancy got her roadster!
That's tea, not what you're thinking.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have meatier stuff but I've been devoting myself to getting this Largish Yellow Thing together so I can hoist it onto the design wall.  Yesterday I broke THREE needles on the machine trying to sew through my fabulous rusted fabric.  It simply wouldn't work so I had to get my pliers out and sew  the rusty strips down by hand pulling each stitch with the pliers-  tedious.  Today the plan is that I do the mirror image on the opposite side, same pliers drill.  My hands hurt.  But, as soon as it's up and I can step back I get to take pictures, reverse them, change them to B&W, and assess what else needs to be done.  Hopefully not a lot because I am getting way tired of it now.

1 comment :

mary beth frezon said...

LOL I have the book "No Plot..." autographed even. I ordered it along with my NaNoWriMo Winner tshirt! It's awesome. The book I mean. The tshirt is too but in a warm-fuzzy-even-if-my-book-is-dorky kinda way.