I've been thinking about a camel sock puppet for a while now and when I found this sock in my stash it seemed just about perfect.
With no hump to help imply camel, I used long fake eyelashes and folds in the toe of the sock (for the flat nostrils and split front lip) to give it strong camel vibes.
I am not someone who believes in cryptids, yet I find them endlessly funny to make and display. Bigfoot, yeti, chupacabra, nessie, I love to depict them especially in Christmas ornaments. Lately I've been especially fond of jackalopes. I needlefelted this one and gave him a jaunty little holiday scarf.
Like most people, I have an abundance of tree ornaments. And yet I can hardly resist making a couple every year. This year I made a little robot. This is a fairly easy one. I used a building block from a cheap dollar store set. Since the wood is fairly soft, it was easy enough to screw in an eye hook. Then glue on some beads and paint the whole thing gray. To make it a little more festive, I gave it pipe cleaner antlers.
I had given these foam cardinals winter sports gear in the past but when we moved, one of the snowshoes got lost. So I figured I'd start fresh.
I was thinking about decor traditionally associated with Christmas and realized, I don't know if I've ever made a popcorn garland. I have no memory of having done so as a child. And now that I'm adult it seems A)wasteful and B)likely to attract mice. But I do like how they look so I though I'd try making a mock-popcorn garland out of bits of old t-shirt and some yarn. My "popcorn" looks a bit more like soup dumplings but I like how it looks hanging in my window.
Every year I like to make a peg doll themed on a Christmas special or movie. This year I chose the Rankin and Bass special "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". And what better character to focus on than the antagonist, the grim Burgermeister Meisterburger. His scowl was especially fun to create.
Did you ever watch Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration? It was on television a couple of times when I was a kid and a couple of details always stuck with me, largely involving the California Raisins. Now that we have it on DVD, we watch it every year. And I have a growing appreciation for the hosts, a pair of dinosaurs named Rex and Herb. I though I'd pay tribute to them with these small portraits, done in acrylic on canvas board.
