I asked my child to design something for me, and being a crazy raccoon freak, she came back seconds later with this:
Child's Design
And the result –
The YES OF COURSE completely finished Raccoon Yermit - taken in bad light with my cell phone because I have to go watch more Game of Thrones
Will anyone else complete their CHALLENGE?
VISIT The Craft Corner Death Match Website and find out.
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH:
Theme: you should probably get a crown regardless, for being so damn awesome.
This is the story of simple woman, a woman no greater than any of us, representative of most every woman I know, who can simultaneously calm and feed a screaming baby, program computers, bake cakes, knit, sit on committees, shovel the driveway and listen to the CBC while all the time fantasizing about a full night’s sleep.
She is super
DOES SHE DESERVE A CROWN? You Bet She Does!
A crown
And I’m letting her finish off the cake and down a bottle of red wine while she wears it, oh ya.
Check out the craftcornerdeathmatch.com to see more (when they’re posted).
OH – and sometime this week I’ll be posting about a Yermit Giveaway Contest …. more on that then.
I’m still working on my Craft Corner Death Match entry – which I’ll post tomorrow (evening) (late, probably), but I will now show the crowns I’ve been working. I was playing with fabric stiffener this week, and am pleasantly surprised by the results.
Crowns
The stiffener product itself is quite expensive, and while I was applying it I was thinking it wouldn’t work, or that white glue would work just as well. I made several crowns and tried a different method with each, applied the stiffener to different spots and in different amounts.
Once they dried though, I was quite impressed. The fabric was stiff, but totally maleable – you could sew on it or paint or fold it. It retains its shape, but you can move it around … it’s stiff but not like a board stiff. Very neat.
Gordo here is modelling the (still unfinished) crowns. He is not my CCDM entry though he does look quite smashing in a crown.
Crowns on Gordo
Tune in tomorrow – very late – for this week’s Death Match.
Theme: you should probably get a crown regardless, for being so damn awesome.
Craft Corner Death Match: Repetition repetition repetition
So repetition, in my brain, just means pattern. I have this weird brain when it comes to pattern – I am, at the same time, addicted to it and I detest it.
I can’t have patterns in my house – fabric, wallpaper or anything, because I become obsessed with it. My eyes immediately seeks out the repeating pattern elements and then that’s ALL I can see – where the pattern starts and ends and how it loops.
If someone is wearing a patterned shirt it’s the same thing – the pattern becomes all I can focus on.
I blame my parents, as any good solid person should. My mother papered my wall with tiny pink, purple and blue flowers, and then on the ceiling were panels of tiles that had repeating patterns of DOTS. If I was ever forced to spend a lot of time in that room, when I was sick or whatever, those stupid flowers were all I saw, over and over in my head, repeating and repeating – I can still see them to this day. And those tiles – well – they had 1117 dots in a pattern that repeated 28 times on every tile*.
My favourite book growing out, was called, “the mysterious disappearance of leon (i mean noel)“. I must have signed that book out of the library 50 times. No one ever thought to get me my own copy, I guess. But wait — I just ordered one! HA!
Anyway, in the book, the main character is in love with this one pattern of fabric.
Pattern
It’s all she wears, and she has her house (as i remember and I could be wrong but will know in a week or two) papered in it, and her couch covered in it. So that WHEN SHE SITS ON THE COUCH SHE DISAPPEARS!
Bigger view
WEEK #2 of our YERMITS vs ROBOTS CHALLENGE THING!
And, I may have failed already. At week #2. See, Erin picked the theme. She said, how about your favourite Doctor? And I said, “SURE”.
I was thinking George Clooney, or Dr. McDreamy, or that sort of thing. Then a day later I reread and caught the subtleties – the capital D on the Doctor. In this house (and her house too apparently) that means only one thing: Dr. Who.
Ooooops.
Well, despite not being exactly on theme, here is my Favourite Doctor: Dr. Horrible!!!!! And he can, well not kill, but FREEZE the little ROBOT DOCTOR…..
Heh. Who wins now??
Be sure to check out Robotaday’s blog to see her AWESOME knitted DALEK!! I can’t compete with the detail on her Robots – so unbelievably cute.
COMMENT TO WIN. I don’t think anyone is voting or anything, but one lucky commenter (on either blog, it doesn’t matter) will win a robot fingerpuppet wearing a fez! (made by our own Robotaday.com) – hurrah!
The lucky winner of the first ROBOTS VS YERMITS whatever this is is….
***GRYPH***
Who commented in the Robotaday blog.
Gryph, please send your mailing address to jenny@yermits.ca and I will mail you the prize of 4 buttons:
Well, Erin of Robot a Day beat me to the punch.
See, we met last week, and over the course of coffee and baby oogling (her baby – v. cute) we decided to spark up a challenge:
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
That’s her name for it. I don’t know what to call it. I picked this week’s theme and she was game. (no eye rolling at all)
Luckily, I have the benefit of having a slightly older baby girl (15 years) to answer all my vampire/werewolf questions. (What colour are the eyes again? Do they have any tatoos?)
So here is my contribution to
WEEK ONE (question – are we doing this weekly?)
The Theme: SPARKLY VAMPIRES AND SHIRTLESS WEREWOLVES.
WAIT, WAIT, WAIT – I hear you saying.
That werewolf isn’t shirtless! And we can’t tell if that that vampire sparkles or not!
Yes, but…. his shirt comes off in a FLASH, in order that he might wipe away your blood or dry you tears at the drop of a hat. AND oh ya, he’s sparkly. I made a special trip to fabric land just to get that sparkly white felt and they had only TWO pieces left.
Click on the picture below to see it larger, in all its glory:
Still can’t see those sparkles?
And the Robots?
Nicely done. Nicely done.
Do what now? Do we need to get people to vote? Or at least comment? Should there be a prize for commenting? Maybe we cold involve my new button maker? A set of 4 buttons (one of each doll?) for one lucky commenter?
………………
(edit#2) COMMENT TO WIN! One lucky commenter on either this or the Robot a Day blog’s entry will win a set of four 1 1/4 inch buttons – one of each vampire and werewolf Yermit and Robot. Contest open until Sunday September 12th at Noon EST.
……………….
(Edited) NEXT WEEK’S THEME: Your Favourite Doctor
You are currently browsing the archives for the Competition category.