Life as a Magazine, and a Big Mouse

Photoshop is useful when you want to make your life seem more picturesque than it is. I think I have made my coffee, magazine and journal look quite romantic here!

Yesterday I visited Dungeness with my Mum, and tomorrow am off somewhere else with a friend, so today I spent in a productive way making Mr Wolf, or, as he turned out, Mr Giant Mouse. When he is feeling really scary, he pretends to be a rat. He was very enjoyable to make. I put him together by wrapping the dolls inside to get the idea of size, then cobbling together the body, fixing it by a mixture of needle felting and sewing. His big mousey head is needle felted, and his features sewn on with embroidery thread-or floss as I believe it is called in America!

Then I cut him open with a tiny sharp pair of scissors, to release the dolls. It felt like some kind of weird surgeon role-play! A dollyotomy.

I couldn't resist just one more!

Once Upon A Time....

...a big bad wolf (that had not been made yet because its creator underestimated the amount of felt needed to do so) was being very threatening towards Little Red Cap and her Granny. They hid in the big drawer with the book pages that reminded them of story books, and looked scared. They were so frightened that their hair became wild and sprang from their heads.
Granny held Little Red Cap's hand.
I finished these two yesterday. Then I had fun playing with the photos of them cowering.
Am I heartless? Probably.

They remind me of melodramas from the 30s, or vampire films like Nosferatu.

I made the arms from wire covered in batting, then sewed felt hands on the end. Then I made a little tabard for the dress and sewed it on. The skirt was just a gathered rectangle and I rolled a piece of batting up instead of making legs.

I neatened the bottom of the batting with a circle of felt.

The faces are not subtly painted-more like stage make-up!

This is a link for me-so I don't lose it. Don't look at it unless you have a great interest in cat gynaecology! Cassie has developed a lump where the scar from her operation is and I was looking up possible causes. If it doesn't go by Monday I am going to have to go back to the vets again! I feel like I am never away from the place!