Wifey makes characters out of socks and these are three of them. I think they look uber cool

Which came with love from wifey. I’m hoping that this is going to be a regular series

Last one for a while, honest. Just playing with pix while printing out chapters and thought I’d upload it ‘cos it made me smile.

Ju cleverness number whatever of whatever.

So, again, wallowing in wifeys … um… wunderbarness here are a couple more of her stuffed toys she’s been into the making of. Regular readers (hi FBI special crafts unit) will know that she’s into a number of crafts and arts (generally mastering one and then giving up straight away for the next: I’m looking at you encaustic art, wire art, amigurumi, scrapbooking, chalk colouring and much more), all the while dismissing the fact that she may well be an artist. Again this site is happy to show her up for the liar she is (yeah, tell her THAT Mary Lynne ). In as much as her little characters are very groovy (tell her that as well please, he said, cowarding out).

Also added a new brush play thing that I did after shutting down for the night (ahem) and that’s it for the day.

Ju cleverness 1.

Ju cleverness 2.

Ju cleverness 3.

Husband trying to keep-up-edness.

Did have something else I was gonna upload but… hang on! Just remembered.

Thanks

Did some work last week with some kids that, I think, the world doesn’t necessarily rate sometimes… Actually they were great fun and the final project we worked on, in ways, out the far more accomplished students I work with to shame and then some. At the end of the morning we came out with a very cool animation and they’d written this on the board to say thanks. Was very touched and made it all worthwhile when, really, I’d been grumping a little about having a stupidly busy tuesday.

…ooops, forgot to add this but will add it to this post thus distracting from all in the post prior, but hey ho: one more thing… ((you know how the apple fanboy always saves a cool thing for last with a white text on black slide?))

I add this with a mixture of fear and trepidation, as well as a little pride for reasons that will become apparent in a second.

I’m very lucky enough to be married to someone who is a talented artist and creative person. SHe always deflects this, because I can ‘draw’ in a more conventional sense she always dismisses her artworks as less useful or ‘arty’ but, as the picture’ll prove, wifey’s artwork is, often, far better than mone and certainly more popular Hence the hesitation in mentioning it. The last time I big upped her work it proved so much more popular than the stuff I was doing I wanted to move to a tent in Wales and forget about it all

Anyhow: wifey has been getting more and more into sock characters (take a sock, make a character). (Hence name). She was into amigurumi (sp?) for a while but this seems to have taken over. Pix added show the skills and how cool they look.

They do look very groovy and are some of my favourite things as is wifey herself. Now if I could just persuade her that she is an artist…

Hmmm maybe I should have added a sock character to the parcels/quote begging letters… Ah well, too late now.