mypapercrane (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mypapercrane) wrote,@ 2005-04-22 13:45:00 |
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Month of Softies!
This is my contribution for this month's Month Of Softies! (which theme is recylced monsters) His brown body is made out of a brown washcloth, hid striped sides/mouth/and hair? is made from various baby clothes. The only thin not recycled was his felt eyes! I gave him to my nine year old who has quite a collection of monsters. (actually right now he is singing a song about monsters that he made up at the top of his lungs, very interesting stuff) After I made it, I kept thinking it reminded me of something. Then I realized what, this: http://jimwoodring.com/shopsite_sc/stor
My nine year old is on spring break today (yup a one day spring break, weird huh?) So we went to the library and then made the clay that was on yesterday's list. Next we are making Shrek cupcakes (complete with squirt on green frosting, hmm) This morning before we went anywhere I silk-screened these:
As you can probably tell they are clouds. But they will have a hook to hang from, and raindrops coming out of them. Hard to imagine I guess, but I will finish one up today to post tomorrow. I have a bunch of screens made of faces I drew on the computer. For a long time I have been debating over the way I make the faces for my dolls. For one thing, its very time consuming, and also its hard to always get the cut circles to be "circle" and the same size. I've thought about silk-screening faces, but have yet to try any....baby steps!
I think my husband doesn't like the silk-screened faces much because he says they don't look homemade, he says they are too perfect. But I like the faces because #1 I can make all sorts of faces that would be hard to duplicate with fabric and thread, and #2 it saves a lot of time this way. But, I'm still not sure.
They playdoh came out really weird, no matter how much water we added it still seemed a little on the dry side...and the food coloring didnt seem to spread very well (I think we were suppose to add it before mixing, whoops!)But it still worked pretty well. The two year old made a lumpy bumpy Shrek (can you tell Shrek is popular in our house?) and the nine year old made a volcano with purple lava, which then exploded and covered the entire earth...hmmm
This is my contribution for this month's Month Of Softies! (which theme is recylced monsters) His brown body is made out of a brown washcloth, hid striped sides/mouth/and hair? is made from various baby clothes. The only thin not recycled was his felt eyes! I gave him to my nine year old who has quite a collection of monsters. (actually right now he is singing a song about monsters that he made up at the top of his lungs, very interesting stuff) After I made it, I kept thinking it reminded me of something. Then I realized what, this: http://jimwoodring.com/shopsite_sc/stor
My nine year old is on spring break today (yup a one day spring break, weird huh?) So we went to the library and then made the clay that was on yesterday's list. Next we are making Shrek cupcakes (complete with squirt on green frosting, hmm) This morning before we went anywhere I silk-screened these:
As you can probably tell they are clouds. But they will have a hook to hang from, and raindrops coming out of them. Hard to imagine I guess, but I will finish one up today to post tomorrow. I have a bunch of screens made of faces I drew on the computer. For a long time I have been debating over the way I make the faces for my dolls. For one thing, its very time consuming, and also its hard to always get the cut circles to be "circle" and the same size. I've thought about silk-screening faces, but have yet to try any....baby steps!
I think my husband doesn't like the silk-screened faces much because he says they don't look homemade, he says they are too perfect. But I like the faces because #1 I can make all sorts of faces that would be hard to duplicate with fabric and thread, and #2 it saves a lot of time this way. But, I'm still not sure.
They playdoh came out really weird, no matter how much water we added it still seemed a little on the dry side...and the food coloring didnt seem to spread very well (I think we were suppose to add it before mixing, whoops!)But it still worked pretty well. The two year old made a lumpy bumpy Shrek (can you tell Shrek is popular in our house?) and the nine year old made a volcano with purple lava, which then exploded and covered the entire earth...hmmm
