The Wigglebutt Blog

!! WARNING !! THIS BLOG CONTAINS "AWESOME CUTENESS" (If I may say so myself.) In the beginning.... Not so cute. I sculpted his body over this armature, added his head and front legs before the first cure. Then I added the hind legs. It was a challenge for me to get the stance just the way I wanted it, so when I finally got it "right", I was so excited to get him cured that I forgot a very important step. This is what happened when I forgot to brace him up in the middle. He is pretty good sized at 7" long and about 5" high at the tip of his tail. So, a little bit of batting, some "emergency surgery", and ...... All better. Y Y Meet Moloodoe Y Y Moloodoe's Story "In the dark of the night when things seem scary, Moloodoe appears in a little spark from the last dying glow of the light bulb. He sits on your chest and looks at you with playful eyes and a contagious grin giving you a swat on your nose from time to time until you fall to sle...

As you can clearly see, the Garden Fairies are beginning to "dig out". Obviously we only have another month or so of winter left. AND, we're gaining about 6 minutes of sunlight EVERYDAY:-) YAH!!!

Meet My Little Dormouse. I usually don't try to copy or "reproduce" anything with my clay, like This . I'm NEVER please with the results and I usually pick the piece apart so bad that by the time I finish finding all of the things that are wrong with it, it's almost embarrassing. ( I am a perfectionist, a very bad trait that I am trying to squish like a bug) That being said, I could easily pick this piece apart, but there are enough things I like about it that I'm just going to ignore the rest. This little guy told me he wanted to be a trinket box.

This picture makes me feel all squishy inside, in a good way :-) This is a photo of an actual hibernating Dormouse. You can read the cute story behind the picture here. My honey has decided to go play in the snow this weekend and since I finally finished my commission piece, I want to play this weekend too. I've made a few small roses. So how hard can it be to make a larger rose and plunk a bundle of adorableness into the middle of it? We'll see how that goes. And after that, I think I will finish this: Does he look like a Moloodoe? Name courtesy of papermasks http://crochetcultist.com Thanks :-)

Here goes my second try to do this post. I seem to have a real challenge with pictures and html. Well, here goes.... This is the list of specifics for my latest commission piece. Inspiration for this piece came from here . The most important things requested were the red hair and red lips, REALLY BIG red lips. Mick Jagger big. And, of course, the guitar. It had to be an acoustic guitar rather than the electric used by "The Guitar Man". I don't know why, but I felt like she should have large eyes. It took SEVERAL tries to get something that didn't resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of "Total Recall". You know the scene.. the one where he gets sucked out into the bad atmosphere of Mars, right before the alien device fixes the air, and he's writhing on the ground looking like one giant face bulge. Well, enough of that. I think I finally came up with something that looks a little better than that. She still looks a little bit alien but not as bad a...

Just a quick post to show you Guitar Gal in progress. I usually try to move whatever item I am photographing to a clean and tidy area of my studio to take the photo. To be honest, there isn't a clean and tidy area in my studio right now and I would rather work on finishing her than clean up. So there you have it! ( She's green because that is the only color of floral tape I had:) Don't ya love her tufted stool?? I finally finished her guitar. I haven't varnished it yet because I can't decide if I should add the darker color around the edge like on the one in the photo I got off of Google. What do you think?

Ok, that title looks weirder than I expected it to. ☺ I have an explanation for that title, really. I had so many more entrants for the OWOH Giveaway than I would have ever expected, 177 WOW! So, when it was time to have my "Random Number Generator", Danielle, pick a number; I lost all control and told her to pick THREE different numbers. The numbers were........................... #21 Grand Prize #123 Second Prize #99 Third Prize The Grand Prize goes to entrant #21 Y Latharia Y CONGRATULATIONS LATHARIA !!!!! I have also sent an email requesting your mailing address so I can get your winnings in the mail. ☺ Now, I have to keep you in suspense until later this afternoon as to who the other two winners are because I would like to post a picture of what they have won. And since I am writing this post from work (don't tell), I won't have access to my photo files until I get home. OH, the suspense is KILLING ME! Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock , Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tic...