just lion around ....

some news clippings to pootle through ...

a bit about kim's new shop, and a mention of thhe artwey events-to-come ...



and artwey articles run during the event - we had someting in the paper nearly every week ...




wow, here's a pic of steve in the paper!



inbetween lives, i was an adult ed tutor for a while, and did some photo album/scrapbooking workshops ... this is a fun picture ...



the first costumes i made were scooper sonic and scooper woman, used by weymouth and portland bc to remind people to clean up after their dogs ...




first i made the dog costume, and here was his launch ...

preschool curcuit building ...

not really ... just some upside down duplo, and some glo sticks left over from our floodlit walk at abbotsbury gardens...

and daisy and matty dont go to preshool, either, i was just refering to their age bracket ...

i took these pictures in the natural light hoping to capture some of that glow. i love the busy hands. daisy and matty put this construction in a nappy box and you could really appreciate the glo sticks ...

hardware ....

we have legs ....



steve and i have been building the NXT alpha rex over a series of evenings. i love putting together lego. steve is good at finding the bits, and then likes doing robot programming on his laptop.
the robot can almost walk, with just legs like this.



the robot still needs arms and his head (twin sonic sensors), so that will keep us happy for a few evenings yet ...

rawwwwwrrrr!

ok so it might have looked like a an angora show-rabbit for a time ...

but wow i had fun felting these eyes, first the balls, then linings and tear ducts, pupils, highlinghing and finally a white dot - ding !

lets face it ....

halloween is over, and it will soon be christmas ...
and nearly all the apples are gone from the tree ...



but never mind
i had my first stab at needle felting, making this animal face for that project i mentioned the other day ...

a new craft project ....

i have two projects on the go at the moment, neither of them are soft toys, but both of them use lovely long fluffy white fuax fur..

here are some WIP pics for one of the projects -
a quick sketch to help me place signiicant features ...



this pattern piece is a strange shape, and here i have fitted a loop of faux suede
fabric with two strong D-rings ...



i have been very carefully scissor sculpting an area in the middle of this piece of fur ... it is secured inside a large embroidery hoop.



these look like ears, of course !



and here are the inside and outsides of the back of this piece ...



what am i making?