What better image for the first day of the new year than a one-eyed, three-legged demon? Happy January First!
Demon is made of fimo, wire, pipecleaners, yarn the ex left behind, wooden beads, a sun charm, embroidery thread, and an orange glass jewel from one of my favorite shopping places, the fantastic warehouse of Wolf E. Myrow in Providence, Rhode Island.
If a bat mated with a nauga, this is probably what their kid would look like.
Sheer brilliance from Etsy seller skullknocker.
Here are some demons I made a while back, sitting happily in a spider web chair. The Demon of Lost Keys, The Demon of Air, three kittens and a devil all perch safely up above the water. Because yes, that is my basement at 7 AM this morning, after a freakishly heavy rainstorm (second one in a week). Note several inches of water on floor.
After 11 and a half hours of dealing with water issues I have learned four beautiful, beautiful words, and now I'd like to share them with you:
Sump Pump
Shop Vac
Oh yes, people. Small things, indeed, but after I hauled over 170 buckets of water out of the basement (after that I stopped counting) just to keep even with the water coming IN, the arrival of the Sump Pump was better than the appearance of angels.
vintage fabric and poison
Vintage fabric, bug patches, painted canvas, babel fish.
NPR is having a contest to design a "handmade menorah or kinara (the candle holder for the Kwanzaa holiday) or a Christmas tree ornament." They're looking for "designs that reflect the news of 2006."
Well, someone already did a Suri Cruise ornament, so I thought I'd translate my Lindsay Lookoutbelowhan drawing into felt...especially since it's not just Lindsay anymore who is allowing her ladybits to be lit by a million flashbulbs. No, this has turned into a rather alarming trend with drunken pop stars and squint-eyed heiresses jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not sure what's next...but I'm pretty sure I don't want to see it.
Here is the Flickr set of NPR designs. So far my favorite is HO HO HO-abeaus Corpus Everyone!
I've just found a bunch of my old dolls from the late '90's; I'll post them to Toy Monsters as I get them photographed.
Now here's something you don't see every day. I only made 5 of these; they freaked people out in the Seattle store where I had them for sale, but they sold fast in San Francisco. Who woulda thunk?
There's a little pocket in the back for condoms (or pills) and there's a beaded X across the naughty bits, with a little arrow pointing to the head to symbolize fertility of mind, not body.
silk velvet, beads, backed with bridesmaid dress fabric
9 monsters out of one sweater and it looks like I can probably get a couple more out of the old beast.
As promised: A sweater jellyfish. Or maybe it's E. coli. I always get those confused.
