Cats on a Scarf

I made this scarf design of many of my cat named Mr. Norrell and one of my friend Genevieve's cat named Pigeon.  The concept came from Andy Warhol's 25 cats name Sam.  The book actually had 16 Sam cats and one named Hester.  So this scarf is 16 Norrell cats and one named Pigeon. 

I am getting this scarf made in silk and I am really excited to see how it will turn out.

Shrinky Dinks

I am thinking about having a shrinky dinks party this fall.  I ordered some sheets of shrinky dink paper to test out how they work.  I made the Little Prince and Ben made the fox to go with him. We used color pencils and then popped them into the toaster oven to shrink up.  They shrink to a third of the size in the oven and get very thick.  Ben got scared because they curl up as they shrink before flattening out and he thought they were ruined. But all was okay and I am pretty happy with how they came out.  I glued a pin backing onto the Little Prince.  Lastly, we sprayed some fixative spray over the shrinky dinks because they are easily smudged. I am going to think up more ideas of things to make and test out making some with markers as well.

Update:  It has come to my attention that some people don't know what a shrinky dink is!  Please watch the following video and be amazed.

Cotton Anniversary

I made a couple T-shirts for Ben for our cotton (second) anniversary.

  Once I realized two years was cotton I immediately had a ton of ideas.  In the end I settled on two shirts.  They both have a book/library theme which worked well since we had book and library elements in our wedding and because Ben is now a working librarian.  

I made one shirt with a library card pocket with the book being checkout out on our wedding and anniversary dates.

The other shirt is the children's bookshelf using the image I made from the side of our seating chart.  It was a hard choice but since Ben is a children's librarian it seemed like the logical choice.  I may end up having to make more shirts of the other shelves.

I used Cafe Press to print the shirts and I was very happy with how they turned out.

Cat Head

I made this drawing of Mr. Norrell.

I am thinking of translating it into wax and making a cat face ring.