Wednesday, January 28, 2009

quadrapus, quadrapus...

...does whatever a quadrapus does.

This is Mr. Bobby, Yo-yo and I made him. He's constructed from a baby mitten (technicalities aside, it's a glove but I think the term glove is for grown-ups, not babies). He's filled with popcorn kernels, so don't put him in the microwave.

Sarah has the magazine with better instructions. She also let me use her supplies. We didn't have buttons, but its says to glue them on the bottom of the "tentacles" to represent the suction cups.
  1. Find a buddy-less glove or get a new pair.
  2. Tuck in the thumb of the glove and sew it shut.
  3. Fold in the cuff and fill the glove with popcorn kernels or uncooked rice.
  4. Sew around the edge of the cuff (don't sew the sides together or you'll end up with something that looks like a chicken plume)
  5. Pull the string tight so you have a ball shape.
  6. Sew or glue pom-pom on the top of it's head.
  7. Pinch a pleat on the back of the glove and sew it so that it brings the "legs" back a bit.
  8. Cut a mouth shape out of fabric and glue it on the "face". I folded the fabric in half and made a half of a valentine heart shape.
  9. Glue on a pair of googly eyes.
  10. Glue a pom-pom on top of each "tentacle"

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Resolve


"I'm afraid there's only one way to resolve this."

I'm trying not to blah, blah, blah so much about what I like and don't like about my doodles. Perhaps her opponent is so tiny and far away because in my mind I couldn't think any less of him.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Mom's writing

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Emily, she loved drawing. She really wished she could get out the castle but she could never. Then one day she got released by the Prince and then she had children. One was named Elias and one was named Zoe. The End.
Once upon a time a mermaid in the sea, she really wished she was a person but she really was just a mermaid. She always, always, really, really, wanted to be a person. But then one day, her father came and then her father put a spell on her and then she turned into a human being and she got a red, blue, pink dress. The End.