phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Default)
So, a Cool Thing people are doing, and you can also do, for neighborhood kids stuck at home is putting teddies (the bears, not the lingerie) in their windows, so parents can take them out and go for a bear hunt. Your bears get to wave at new friends, and your neighborhood kids won't lose their damn minds.

Caution: sunlight is damaging to plush animals, as you know if you've ever seen a car's back window full of bleached beanie babies. So switch your bears out periodically. If you have other plush, an I AM A BEAR IN DISGUISE, DON'T TELL ANYONE sign will do just as well. Or THE BEAR HAS GONE ON A MISSION BUT CAN SEE YOU WAVING ON HIS PHONE.

Also, pass it on.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Hot Fuzz Cuddly Monkey)
How to design a 3-D plushie from a 2-D drawing:

http://bizmiss.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/epic-how-to-make-a-3-d-plush-pattern-from-a-2-d-drawing/

Advanced stuff, but I kinda want to try it.
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[livejournal.com profile] ecto_gammat asked how to make a Tribble:



Click for biggerer. Full-size image is quite large, so you can read/print it. Feel free to ask for clarification of instructions/handwriting decipherage. Yes, they really are that easy to make. I'd put beanie pellets/shot/whatever in the bottom for weight, but it all depends on what sort of feel you want.
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Apologies for the heinous picture. The camera insisted that the focus be the bag of Reese's Pieces behind him. As always, click for more biggery.

He's approximately 1" x 1" x 2", made of wool felt and buttons, and pellet stuffed to keep him from flying across the room.
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(cliquez-vous pour more biggerness)

Red Heel socks (they come in blue as well as brown), microfleece dishtowel uniform, wool felt details. Rag and poly stuffed for weight. The background is the perfectly revolting Lansing Days Inn, which, I am happy to say, we were able to vacate after the first night. I tried to straddle the Nimoy-Quinto line with the face.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Clancy the Great)


Face for a plushie robot. Yes, those are appliqued office supplies.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Default)
Just watched Cloverfield. My God, those people were literally too stupid to live.

Now I want to make a sock Cloverfield monster.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Hot Fuzz Cuddly Monkey)
Yay! Everything is, at last, coming up sock monkeys. I've made a pot of coffee and will see you in five or six hours.
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Okay, by golly, now we'll see if everything comes up sock monkeys!
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (friday)
My two book orders of the day are Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Everything's Coming Up Sock Monkeys!

There may be something wrong with me.
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Not technically a Christmas toy, Doris is a sock doll I finished...um...New Years-ish? She's 4 or 5 socks, plastic safety eyes, a flaming orange bridal applique up one leg, some pompoms, and a strip of fake fur. Oh, and buttons. Several of her parts are from the amazing Stupid Sock Creatures book -- find it on Amazon, or visit stupidcreatures.com and take a gander at the gallery.



Doris, Pointy Dog (by Uglydoll, added collar and badge) and Sharkey. They live on the sofa. Expanddetails )
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Hot Fuzz want monkey want monkey)
Christmas toy spam begins. First, for [livejournal.com profile] tawg, here's Puppet Nicholas:



He lives in the umbrella stand with Clown Puppet now.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (K-K-K-Ken by Fritters)
Current achievements: Cut out and hemmed a cape for my Mego Batgirl, from a spare DC9 Martian Manhunter cape. Not having icy deathy crash of death on the ice. Temporarily repaired Icelandic wool mittens, found felting wool yarn for better darning later. Found watch battery for old Hello Kitty plushie with winter coat and pink glowing cheeks ("What's it like outside, Kitty?" "Blinkblinkblinkblinkblink!").

I'm sure other stuff happened, but mostly we're all wandering around in layers of fleece, doing that flat-footed duckwalk to keep from slipping.

Oh, and fighting off the wolves.

SAY!

Dec. 9th, 2008 06:31 pm
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Hot Fuzz want monkey want monkey)
What would you see if you Googled "anatomically correct sock monkey"?
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (Hot Fuzz Cuddly Monkey)
Go visit [livejournal.com profile] calathea's place for a lovely Fuzz ficlet:

http://calathea.livejournal.com/261703.html and scroll a bit.

(Found via del.icio.us, pimped with permission.)
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (hot fuzz chunky monkey by crantz)
TITLE: Curse of the Cuddly Monkey!
FANDOM: Hot Fuzz
AUTHOR: annlarimer
WORD COUNT: 4,400ish
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: "It tasted kind of like gardening."
WARNINGS: Choking hazard, American spelling, spoilers.
NOTES: I likes me some C&C. Stay tuned for a bonus deleted scene after the credits!
DISCLAIMER: They don't belong to me, as you know.
ARCHIVE: Please ask first.


His heart was small and hard and black, made from a bit of clay stamped with arcane symbols. He didn't know where he'd come from, or how old he was, but he did know his purpose.

When Reverend Shooter opened the carton and freed him from the plastic bag, he'd been elated. A man of God! What could be better? But it quickly became clear that there was nothing he could do to the man that the good Reverend hadn't already done to himself.
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Not as freaky as "Black Dolls," but still. Freaky.

For some reason, the poster left in a small chunk of the next sketch, in which Simon Pegg threatens starving orphans with a baseball bat. But you don't get to see that. You're just taunted with it. Because God hates you.
phosfate: Ouroboros painting closeup (hot fuzz sharing monkey by crantz)
I am sewing a teeny plushie Danny Butterman.
John is watching a movie.
There's a point to this, further down.

me:I am pleased with how these little fuckers are turning out.
A: language, ann!
me: Sorry. I am happy with the way these little fuckers are turning out.
A: that's better
me: Okay...let's try on the hat. Danny Butterman, blue bishop.
A: what a lovely priest they had
me: That would've been funnier if they hadn't spoiled it in every ad.
Still, C of E, what can you do?
A: I didn't see any ads. I went in all unspoiled, except for the face ,ick
me:The face ick?
A: kick
me: Shit. This needs an upholstery needle.
me: Orrrrr...I could turn the needle and stitch the other direction. Sorted.
me: ...I swear he's singing a little song about how nice it is to get a hat.
me: o/~ Oh isn't it grand to have a hat?
It's how the people tell that I'm a copper.

me: And the barmaid thinks that it's just grand
She sits in my lap and I'm not going to stop 'er. Wa-hey! o/~

A: aww
me:Bob Walker: o/~ Oh, isn't it grand to have a dog? TITS! heh. o/~
A:"buttocks!"
me:"gay!"
A: I am watching a movie with Snack
Arthur and the Invisibles
me: How is it?
A: it's okay so far
I mean, there's some odd parts to it. Like the fact everything is 1950s except the main character, who in the middle of Connecticut has a british accent and a spikey 2007 haircut
A: http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/3143/posters/poster1.jpg
me:Jeez. The chick on the left totally wants me.
A: ann, about the pictures telling you things...
me:Yes?
A: bad
me:You sure?
A: yes
me: Fudge.
me:Andy and Andy: o/~ We're happy we don't have to wear a hat
Or a stupid uniform or any of that
The CID know where it's at
Except that our boss is a bloody great twat o/~

Nicholas: HEY!
http://www.journalfen.net/userpic/104047/10348 heh.
A: I would like that line in the next book
me::D
Turner 1: o/~ I was so glad when I got my hat
My head was high and my chest was puffin'

Turner 2: I wasn't there when they gave them out
'Cause nobody tells me nuffin' o/~

A: heeh
me: Tony: o/~ I'm awfully glad that I have a hat
Er, that's it, really. o/~
Saxon: o/~ Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof wof
Woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof

me: Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof
Woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof woof-woof o/~

Tom: Good boy!
Doris: o/~ Oh, isn't it grand to have a hat
I can make it do so many lovely tricks!
Though it's not as big and hard as theirs
It can--o/~

NICK: OH GOD NO! /he yanks her out of shot
A: :D
me: Nick: o/~ I must say it's grand to have a hat
With its checkerboard band so mod
I buff it and clean it, and
when the weather is inclement, I put plastic over it in accordance with regulations, and I polish the badge bit...
Stop looking at me like I'm odd! o/~
Everybody: o/~ Ohhhhhhhhh--
Isn't it grand to have a hat?

A: :D
me: It don't matter what's your race or creed or color
When you put it on and walk round the town
How your coply pride gets just a little fuller! o/~

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