The Wigglebutt Blog

I am SOOOO excited about this one! Inspiration comes in many unexpected ways. I will show you what inspired this fellow when he is complete. ☺

Needed some blue buttons for a new neckwarmer. Used the extra bits for a some bangles and a few rings. I'm likin the sparklies in these ☺

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...

So..... I spent all weekend doing this project. I DID get some of these done, but not all. I was so tired of having my crochet projects piled up on my side table. ( I currently have three going right now ). This was my hubby's magazine rack, a better description would be the magazine black hole. The last time I got fed up with it overflowing and cleaned it out there were magazines in there that were six years old! I finally convinced hubby that he didn't need to keep all of his back issues since he NEVER opens them again after the initial read through and I mean Never. Any time he wanted to go back and look something up he just "googled" it. Who needs paper? So... instead of filling it back up with magazines, he started keeping a few books in it. Gardening books and the like. The kind of books you only look at once or twice a year. Eventually he got just enough books in it to make a nice level surface that was perfect for holding some of his many remotes. Now... yo...

CONGRATULATIONS... to  Beth  of   QuiltersStitchTogether  !! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and entered =) I visited so many new blogs, that at one point, I vaguely recall my husband saying  " Step.  away.  from.  the.  mouse." ☺ And my blog roll more than doubled. I hope everyone had as much fun blog hopping as I did =)