This is by far the smallest craft I’ve ever done. You can’t really tell the size by looking at it, but it fits in the palm of my hand, whereas the things I usually made are average stuffed-animal size.

This one was for a coworker that likes pokemon. She said her favorite was Charmander, but I couldn’t find a pattern online I liked because none of them seemed to properly portray the shape of his nose. Most of the ones I found, even on google images, were simply flat. So I decided to make my own! And I’m rather proud about how it turned out, particularly when I was freehanding it. I think that when things calm down, this one will be my first written pattern; hopefully I can replicate it!

This one also marks the start of better pictures! I asked my mother-in-law to take some higher-quality pictures for me so I could feel professional maybe opening my own etsy shop when I have more of a stock to show in it. So that’s a mini-dream of mine in the future. Hopefully it’ll pan out the same way this Charmander did!

A work friend of mine became a grandfather recently! He has two daughters, and last month brought the addition of his first healthy granddaughter.

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Not meaning that he ever had an unhealthy granddaughter.. just that he didn’t have one at all. Or a grandson. It’s a celebratory occasion, really. And knowing that his daughter- the mother- is a big Nightmare Before Christmas fan, I decided to make her a baby head blanket in the shape of Zero!

Which is great, because it’s pretty much just a Zero doll, considering Zero is already in the shape of a baby head blanket.

And in the spirit of Hallow-uhuhhmerrcough..Christmas-!- I’ve decided to post this one next!

The greatest thing about this one is that it was actually made FOR Halloween, but it’s ok I didn’t see him until long after that, because then it just became a Christmas gift. I mean, the movie title has the word “Christmas” IN IT. It should’ve been a Christmas gift to begin with, really.

But I plan to get better about that! Once a week until I’m all caught up on my crafts, I’m going to post a new craft on here. Starting with…. OCTWOPOINTO!

I call him Octwopointo because it’s short for Octopus 2.0 and he’s the second one I’ve made. I’m not perfectly happy with how he came out, but there were a couple of improvements between him and the last one, like the shorter neck, better color choice (considering the first guy started out as a frog) and more evenly sized legs. Here’s the comparison.

Huh.. actually.. now that I look at it, I think I like the old one better. Have I.. retrogressed?

..Well, the kid who it was for liked it at any rate. He fell asleep holding it, and that’s good enough for me!

Octwopointo, everyone.