Meet Francis and Stripey! A Monster and a Bear.

I decided to give myself an "Art Break" today, and the result was Stripey the Bear and Francis the Monster! Stripey is a very nice bear made from a cute striped baby fabric, and backed with a pretty white textured fabric. He's about 4.5 by 5 inches in size. His eyes and nose are embroidered in brown, and he has a baby blue ribbon tag. Francis is made with a nice blue and cream flower printed fabric paired with a really lovely cream or muslin coloured fabric with a pretty textured weave. He's about 7.5 inches by 3.5 inches in size. He has button eyes.

I love them both very much. What do you think of them?

They are both in the shop.

Why Don't You Smile?

I brushed my hand along the grass, gazing up into the bright sunlight. It was breezy and my hair danced pirouettes in the sky. "Unloved, why don't you smile?" I asked. I lay back into the cool, bright green grass and tucked one arm behind my head. I smiled over at my ever-sad friend who sat with his legs splayed out in front of him. He looked down at a little yellow flower that lay in the palm of his hand.

"Because nobody loves me" he said.

He closed his hand over the little yellow flower and made a wish. When he opened his eyes and his hand, a little yellow bird now sat there. A dark yellow heart upon it's chest. It hopped up upon his shoulder and trilled a tune.

In the trees sat another little yellow bird, and when it heard Unloved's little bird sing, it perked its head and sang back. Hesitantly, the bird in the tree flew closer, hopeful that it had finally found a friend. It called to Unloved's bird, asking it to come to his tree. But Unloved's bird could not fly, having been made from a flower. It shook its head sadly and could not answer the calling.

Bravely, the bird in the tree flew to Unloved, and landed upon his head. They sang songs to each other and were soon fast friends. They had found their match. Unloved's bird could not fly, but the bird from the tree did not mind. He could fly to Unloved, and he was content with that.

Unloved watched as his flower bird and the tree bird told each other stories of their lives - one as a flower, and one as a bird. He delighted that his flower bird had found a friend and he was comforted by their contentment.

Unloved Meets Unloved

Unloved Monster paper doll was hanging out on the bookshelf, when something happened

Time to Play!

After a quick trip to the craft store, I was ready to make my first (official) Unloved Monster Paper Doll. I'm telling you now, it's super fun. I carefully cut out each limb, his body, and his bow.

Unloved Monster tried to help me too once he was free. He was eager to meet his new, yellow birdie friends!

Then we cut out the big, lacy heart (which was a little more difficult since I wanted all the ruffles to be perfect). Then, out came the brand new, shiny gold brads! Unloved was so excited (as was I).

I took a big pearl pin (which Unloved was not really too thrilled about) and poked all the little circles where the brads would fit through. Luckily, Unloved didn't feel a thing because he's made of paper! Phewf!

It was easy to push the brads through. I purposely put his limbs behind his body instead of in front. Then I attached his bow. After that, Unloved was all smiles (well, inside he was smiling anyways). And he tumbled around on the paper, playing with his birdie friends. What a great fellow!

Want to make your own Unloved Monster? He's waiting for you in the shop!

Zombie Mouse

Meet Zombie Mouse!

Zombie Mouse is one of a rare breed of mythological creatures once persecuted for their association with bad dreams. It's name is derived from its zombie-like appearance. It was later discovered that Zombie Mice actually feed on bad dreams, thus getting rid of them rather than causing them.

Hold him close in your hard times to keep those bad dreams away.

Zombie Mouse is now available in the shop!

Fat Grub

Meet Fat Grub.

Fat Grub wants to grow up to become a beautiful butterfly. To be truthful, he's not sure if he's really going to become a butterfly. He's short, he's fat, and he might just be a maggot. But, for now, he eats his vegetables everyday and he thinks big butterfly thoughts.

I hope Fat Grub will get what he wants one day.

Fat Grub is about 5.5 inches long and 3 inches wide. He's crocheted from acrylic yarn, and stuffed with polyfil. His eyes are glass beads.

I have just added him to the store.

Happy Weekend and new tags

Hello, Everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend.

Mine was pretty fantastic. I spent the beginning of it making some changes to my store. The great folks on Etsy gave me some feedback on my store (thank you!) and I set away to start making the changes immediately. I added more shipping locations, updated the categories, updated store policies, and added some more photos. There's still more to do, so I'll be busy for a while.


I also tried out the Etsy Chat rooms, and boy is it fun! It's been ages since I've been in a chatroom, and I met so many nice people! It love the feature where you can post ID numbers of items on the side so you can showcase the work of other users or your own. I personally found it more fun to post other people's work, because other users were posting mine anyways. Very sweet gestures :)


Other than that, it was a pretty relaxing weekend. I did a little shopping, a little dining out, and worked on some tags for Unloved and Can't Dance.
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. They are drawn on patterned cardstock and tied with raffia ribbon. I scallopped the edges with my handy-dandy Fiskar edger scissor. I have discovered that those edgers don't work well on flimsy paper, but that they work extremely well on cardstock.

But the Lovely Lady Can't Dance

Here are some photos of my new monster. She's a lovely lady (monster) but, sadly, she can't dance. If only she could dance! Then she'd surely smile for you.

Unloved Monster

I'm excited to introduce my first crochetted monster. I have named him Unloved because no one liked him when he was in-progress and no one liked him when I first showed him around. He's a big hit now, but his sad expression is a reminder of how no one liked him at first. Poor guy!

He's about 15 inches tall from foot to ear.