One will be for Lucy’s niece, the others will go up on Etsy. The request was for non-threatening monsters, so I made the eyes extra wide and the smiles maximum joy, but they kind of turned out looking like one of my high school gym teacher ladies, who never blinked and always lectured on taking life by the reins. Here you are, Mrs Viv monsters! And thanks to Alice for the excellent velvets, dark purples, browns and blues:D!
I’ve been crafting coffee warmers out of old sweaters and sweatshirts (inner layer) and recent screenprints, drawings, and metro card purchases (outer layer). Here is my first crop of them. They could be wrist warmers/sweatbands, alternatively. I love my Razblint Monsters, and my L’occasionnelle Metro card, courtesy of the Montreal Tourist Board. And of course, there are my Beechview houses, which I screenprinted on a yellow tshirt, and then added some commentary to with white fabric ink.
Three dolls – one green suede Zen face doll, tongue out & eyes open! And two Heart Pandas, one slightly larger than the other, but both ready to be thrown and hugged. All are now available on Etsy…
Two more tote bags, this time monstrous! Both are heart monsters, one is purple striped, the other blue velvet. Psycho eyes? Singing teeth? Who knows what is going on, I chalk it up more to my late night sewing skills than gurgles of a subsconscious that needs investigation. But however they came into being, here they are (oh and on Etsy too)!
It was a great day out at the South Side Works yesterday, warming weather, delicious chili from the Tin Front Cafe in Homestead, and lots of dolls dolls dolls. I am still exhausted, but my hands aren’t too bloody or clawed — plus my Charlie Batch doll is moving to Homestead, hopefully will be meeting his real life counterpart soon! Thanks to all the new owners, and goodbye to my giant businessman (who started off as Martin McGuinness, but now is the mouthless Doctor for a new Baby!).
Out of a Cape Cod-unfortunate plaid skirt + a pink felt blazer (courtesy of Alice!), here is a big ear, big lips, small eyed monster. Extra bouncy too.
More simple faces, more tongue! Though I gave into mouthpiece-ear-limb temptations. And then there’s the plaid, rescued from a Cape Cod skirt, to go with the pink bathrobe that has gone into the tongue.
Time for some minimalist dolls. Two eyes, one tongue, and a blank stare. No eyebrows, no nostrils, my favorite facial components are benched for this week while I play around with ultrasimple monsters.
Bears, Bees, Cats, Monsters, Aliens! (before they are cut up into mirror fronts….)
