The Wigglebutt Blog

I have been extremely f***ing uninspired the last couple of months. As you could probably tell by the major lack of posts lately;( After all of the yard work was done for the year, the weather got (stayed) crappy. *i.e. Record snow fall last winter, a late spring, coldest July on record, earliest snow fall that I can remember in the 20 years I've been here Sept. 30th* Other stuff happened and I just haven't wanted to do much "making", but the last couple of weeks I have felt almost desperate to make something ~anything. But I just couldn't get interested in starting anything. So I decided to do some more of these . And I just couldn't come up with a good color combo that I liked, (yea, I know, I'm tired of the whining too. And I am totally done with it except to say that it has been raining for a solid week and hot flashes suck! OK, I'm done) So I went here , go there , you need to go there . And I found this...

an experiment : I needed some eyeballs for some characters I have in mind. I looked around on the web for glass eyes, but I didn't necessarily need or want the eyes to be "realistic", just eyeball-ish. These started out as glass 'baubles', the kind you buy in the bag at Walmart in the silk flower section=) I used acrylic paints and spray glaze. Now I just need to bake some with the polymer clay to make sure there isn't a reaction between the glaze and the clay. If there is an issue with the glaze I can always use glass paint and skip the glaze. a dilemma: I made these with a purpose in mind. I wanted to make a set of stitch markers. I had visions of adding a few fresh water pearls, they would be really fancy. But then, who would buy a set of unnecessarily fancy stitch markers? Certainly not something I would buy for myself, but they would make a really nice gift. Or, should I make them into a couple sets of earrings or use them as the focal in a few necklace...

*** IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR MY OWOH POST CLICK HERE *** I have to start by saying, I was actually " giddy" when I finished the cheeseburgers . The hot dogs........ not so much... Yes, I think they look like hot dogs. But really... how exciting is a hot dog? And, unless I figure out a much simpler way of putting them together, these may be the only ones you see =( These are going to be stitch markers and possibly a couple pair of earrings. (Hubby says, "I think you should make some earrings out of them." Me, "Why?" Hubby: "Because they're HOT DOGS.") I think that if I use some bright yellow beads when I put them together, it might make them look a little less plain. (of course, I didn't have any bright yellow beads, so I painted some . ☺)

for a cheeseburger today. Not to "toot" my own horn... but I think these are just so FLIPPIN cute! They are on their way to becoming stitch markers. ( actually , at the time of this photo, they are on their way to the oven) I spent all day mixing colors, and building "burgers", and I absolutely love the way they came out. TOOOT! - TOOOT! Ohh, Uhhhhhmm. Pardon me....... ☺ *** IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR MY OWOH POST CLICK HERE ***