Good Bye Big Rat Head !

Off to Canada he goes .....

Hello, hello?

extreme painting ....

Mary looks a bit suspicious in this picture, but the Fuzzies are busy creating, and are almost constantly wearing their new cycle helmets!

Here, painted and finally varnished are the plaster casts from the kits Louise gave to the Fuzzies for their 4th Birthday...



Daisy's are on the left, and Matty's are on the right of the picture ...

Seagull-On-A-Stick....

a foam and softly-sculpted sea-bird ...

WIP - fursuit rat head rounding the muzzle ...

before muzzle rounding ...



after muzzle rounding ...



its done with a cylinder of rolled sheet foam as a brace, and some lacing of the lips ... next, make a neck piece and then I am all finished ...

When prepping the dinner makes me smile ...

when prepping the dinner makes me smile ...
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

I couldn't cut this one up ... I just threw it in the pasta sauce ....!

button wheel mouse has new home ....

he was bought at Maker Faire, taken home, and photographed beautifully by his new owner Kurt, thank you Kurt xxxx

Another Superb plush-team challenge ...

P is for "Pyew! Pyew!"
Originally uploaded by Don Solo

this time for a plush weapon, long range short range or fantasy! as i love Flash Gordon, costumes and sets I looked around for some props, and also found this great steam punk paint job on flickr ....

here is my challenge entry...

sadly hubby called it a hair dryer for a lot of its development, then when i took the photos, said it looked like i was trying to get paint off my walls with it .....

sigh ...

A Round Up .....

A lovely piece of hemming and creative sewing by Daisy, and sent with my sister's handmade Birthday cards ...



We pulled up one of our potatoes-for-schools plants and washed the new potatoes ...



The Fuzzy girls climbed in the Bin when my friend James and his family came to visit! i should have been brave enough to take a pic of James playing my mandolin ... this is only a garden bin though, full of stones dug our from out borders by Steve ...



Daisy pleased with her new 6-inch embroidery hoop and some felt shapes ...



And our porch, all finished now, re pleat with petite wicker chair, is a lovely place to sit, and to play...

Please Vote for my friends' friendly sheep, Lambo ...

baaaah!
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

baaaah!

please vote for Lambo in this local radio competition, it will give good publicity to a local community project - and of course i will hand over the prize if he wins!

click the link below ...

www.wessexfm.com/photocompetitions/entry.php?pce=1471

did you guess what i was making?

A plush curling stone!
Happy Brithday to Kathy K. today!

following in my footsteps ....

Daisy asked me to show her how to do a running stitch she saw in a felting book from the library, so i looked out some soft fabric and bright thread...



Matty decided she would like to have a go too...



she concentrated for a long time, and produced some very small neat stitches - for a first go!



isn't that lovely?

Daisy made me a shopping list !

daisy made me a shopping list !
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

i am so happy with my shopping list for t his week, i had to take a camera phone pic in order to take it to the shops !

well done daddy and daisy, for making me this!

WIP - fursuit rat head coming together ...

Steve took this pic of me busy in the garden ...



and here is the result of fixing the fur tightly arounf the cheeks and nose ...



the eyes and jaw are only pinned, the nose is being sculpted, so don't look for that yet! But the jaw slipped while taking pictures, and the rat looks very cross with me!
Perhaps because the window is pushing his ears forward!



I am loving his shape now, all balanced out by the big ears ...

NOW what is she trying to make?

both of these parts are from the same project - but what is it?

House Work Round-up ....

another lot of scaffolding goes up, erected by men with no t-shirts ...



on the ground - one of our new solar panels ...



Ready - Duncan is in position to help lift the panels ...



Malcolm and Duncan Lift one of them - hey, be careful with that!



Up it goes - not work for a windy day I don't think ...



three panels in place ...



all nine panels cooking up some solar energy for us ...



Matty and Daisy watch some other men remove our old broken 1970's fence ...



and see the new fence go up ...



then the porch is finally completed when the floor is tiled ...



The scaffolding goes down, and our house smiles out from new windows, and my hawthorn tree looks very pretty in blossom ...



Thanks to Malcolm for the additional photography ... The Raggy Rat did not climb on the roof!

See-Saw Overloaded?

quite possibly ...

WIP - fursuit teeth and ides for the nose ....

rat teeth - foam, PVC, stitching and Glue ...



now yellowed, with layers of acrylic paint, and varnish ...



and some nose ideas, both from real pet rats and my clients Avatar ...