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!