Doing Something Different

Okay, so up until now this blog has been dedicated to whatever random thing pops into my head.  This will probably still happen a lot, but I'm going to try to focus in on my creative exploits, possibly culinary exploits as well (since gluten-free cooking is kind of like an art form).  Basically I want to emulate my good friend Jihan, whose blog The Moldy Cannoli is always making me want to be crafty and then post about it on the internet.  So we'll see how this goes.

So!  To start, we have some dinosaurs.  I have been making them over the last few months whenever inspiration strikes (or, recently, when someone offers to pay me for one)  The little ones are the original design, and I am still perfecting the larger pattern.  The small ones are made of felt and are entirely hand-sewn, the bigger ones are made of fleece with some felt details.  Although the jumbo dinosaurs are machine-sewn, they have hand-embroidered spots on their backs, and the eyes are appliqued by hand too.

Ralph (left) and Waldo (right) are about 16" tall.  And fun to squeeze!

The circle of dino-friends...I have made more, they just aren't in this picture.

Close up!  This is Phinneas.

This is Enrique, who I made for my friend Linnea.  Note the spots!

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed my dinosaur friends...I have sold a few to friends and am hoping to make an Etsy site to sell them from, but we'll have to see if I get bored or overwhelmed trying to do that.  Oh, and there are more photos of them up on my Flickr site, if you want to have a look.