did you vote for mrs pack rat?

many thanks if you did - here is the outcome of that little contest ...

http://www.plushteam.com/2009/02/drumroll-please.html

getting furred ....

wow the head is looking rounder and fluffier and cuddlier and i am on the home straight with this now!
i may have to re-think the plastic dome 'eyes' if they dont fit my vision for the character - which really just changes as the thing grows and hopefully fits whats in mine and my clients heads !
now im off busy shaping the cheeks, building the pattern for the muzzle fur - 3 kinds of fur, and getting hot glue gun burns again !

the ear goes here ....

the ear goes here ....
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

looks like a map of the wold type thing ....but this is what the surface of the foam mouse head looks like laid flat. this is pattern making using the old laura ashley curtains method, using tape or pins to make the darts ...

this method makes lovely 'organic' darts !
and its why you wont find many stright lines on the fursuit, too, including the white under-arm strip!

after making this pattern i sliced the top of the head and cut it from longer fur to make a cute top-knot ... i hope !

click through to the flickr photo to see some notes of what goes where ....

the boys from scotland also wrote to me today ...

Hi Mum
we are doing well learned to play the guitar , we gig as a duet , [wee moose ceilidh band] lol
yours roger and raymond

sometimes, when creatures go to live very far away ...

... they send pictures home to let me know they are ok ...

vote, over on the etsy plush team blog !

vote vote vote, for mrs pack rat ...

that is, unless you find another softie there who floats your softie-boat ...

http://www.plushteam.com/2009/02/voting-for-janfeb-challenge.html

her new years resolution is to 'get on top' of her Mousework, and Clutter - just like me! i wonder if she has made a start yet ?

im a proud new member of the etsy plush team, and this is my first competition :-)

a certain raspberry giraffe left my hands today ....

if this image were an album cover, what would the music be?

giraffe thinks, 'is louisianna very far?'...