trouble4hire got me a book called Still Life: Aventures in Taxidermy by one Melissa Milgrom as a reward for finishing my accounting class.  A sort of intellectual dessert to cater to my particular tastes, if you will.  In the section on Emily Mayer, the taxidermist responsible for ensuring that no more of Damien Hirst's multi-million-dollar masterpieces fall ( Read more... )

I have a lot of dolls planned this weekend. I have to promise myself that I won't count it as failure if I don't finish them all; they're DOLLS, for crying out loud, they're meant to be fun ( Read more... )

I love getting things in the mail, I really do. So imagine my delight when I came home after a craptastic day at work to find a splendid parcel from terryxart awaiting me.

I had asked for one pair of red cowboy-style boots for dysturbation's Pickles doll. I was thinking maybe I'd get them in an envelope. But no:
( Wonderful things )

lepidoctor sent me some pictures of his original Waazi toy interacting with the clone that I made for him. I really enjoy seeing pictures of my creations in their new environments.

( But, it wasn't the clone who got attacked. )

Actually, no, these dolls are all clones. I made a pair of clones of lepidoctor's lovely flat frog Waazi. He sent me photographs of his darling toy, and I made a pattern by printing the picture and cutting it out. Steps of the cloning are illustrated under the cut. Waazlet clones are on their way to lepidoctor and dysturbation.

( Proggie )

The lovely and talented delaese wrote a charming story at my request, and in return I made her the following toy rat, to match her LJ user icon/online avatar.

( Toy rat here. )

So, I'm sewing again. I'm working on a toy rat for
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I have constructed this toy owl for
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