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 !

let there be light!

a wee while ago when i was recovering from surgery, and my friend eve had brought round lunch, the men who do street lights came round to find out why ours wasnt working ... after a poke about they made eve move her car in case the badly corroded top half fell on it!

so yesterday they finally came back to finnish the job which has been on going for weeks. they needn't have bothered, its not dark round here, but the nieghbours wanted what they pay their taxes for ... sometimes some men would turn up and look at the job. i was sorry i was holding mary and a phone when they lifted away the old lamp, as that looked pretty impressive ...

but i did get these images and had a chat with the girls while we watched him work
and i hid behind the sofa so the man wouldnt see me haha ! he didn't wave at daisy and matty tho...

now wheres he off to? does he want to see in the bedroom? i wish i had put away my jammies !
perhaps he just wants an overview of his handy work ?

making markings move ...

making markings move ...
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

i have dressed my duct tape man in inside out laura ashley curtains, lovingly recyled and the linings removed for another project ...

i have used pins and tape for fixing, and a marker pen to work out how to use the different furs to make markings ... like a stripe along the lower front of the arm ...

i need to add in little bits of fabric here and there where i snipped off a bit too much, easier to do this than get out fur and paper ... this is something i could not have done with measurments alone, and im so glad i have thew dummy ...

when i pick him up and carry him around it's reminisent of 'the doctor' and his assistant - when his assistant was little bonnie langford ! before i break him down, and recyle his innards i will take a pic of us both together ... daisy and matty call him MAN :-)