The Wigglebutt Blog

I woke up this morning with, what could be described as, a challenging attitude. Maybe it is the time of year, that dreary between seasons time of year. Maybe it's the lack of sunshine and I have come down with SAD . Maybe it's the fact that I fought with my aged camera for 3 hours last night and only have about a half dozen usable shots for posting on Etsy. (OH SO looking forward to more struggling here shortly. YEA!) Then of course, it didn't help that I had to drive to Anchorage TWICE today for parts. Actually, to be completely accurate, I had to drive to Anchorage once for the wrong part, then a second time for the right part. I really HATE driving in Anchorage. It's very congested and half of the drivers seem to be late for something and the other half seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to make a right hand turn from the left hand lane, on a whim. These trips were in addition to my regular commute which is 45 miles one way in the opposite direction from A...

Meet DonYm. He is from the Land of Melodia. It seems that everyone in Melodia is "Born to Play". DonYm hails from the Woodwind Region. I believe that region is up North or maybe it's down South. There are so many different regions in the Land of Melodia, I get confused. We will soon be meeting a lovely resident from the Stringdom Region. My inspiration for our new friend here was this photograph. I first saw this photo on this blog post . This is one of the blogs I found during the OWOH event this year. It is a wonderful blog and Sue of Barton Originals makes the most gorgeous art dolls, fairies and sculptures I have ever seen! Seriously. You really need to check it out! Ok, done gushing..... Back to the photo ☺ When I first saw it I had a vague idea of a really "dark" creature with the hollow eyes like the masks and other features that appeared to be just forming as it emerged from the underworld. Well, obviously this guy wasn't having any of that! He w...

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...