Felt Mascot/Little Stuffies Swap

So I'm back in NYC now after a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and birthday celebration (My grandfather turned 93 years old!) with my family in California.  No crafting yet, but boy, do I have some great mail to share with you over the next few days!

First things first.  Meet Acorn.  Isn't he delicious?  I just love his button eyes.  I got him in a felt mascot/little stuffies swap that I signed up for on craftster.  My swap partner, Peihan, makes the cutest little batik puppies. For our swap, she made me my very own green and purple-y batik puppy...but smaller (one of the conditions of the swap was for the stuffies to be between 6 and 8 inches tall).

I immediately took Acorn for a walk in Central Park, where he instantly started hunting for acorns...not an easy task in late fall, we found.  Those squirrels sure are efficient!  At the end, Acorn and I were still able to find a few little dusty acorns to add to his collection of seeds (he came with seeds for Forget-me-Nots and Baby's Breath).

Peihan also sent a cute card with a sweet illustration of a bee, inside of which she wrote a little bio for Acorn:

"This is Acorn, a puppy who loves playing in the woods.  He likes anything green, espeically flowery plants. =)  So he insisted on taking some seeds with him to his new home."

I'll take him to the woods someday, but for the time being, he'll have to make do with a humble little apartment and an occasional the trip to the park.

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Here's the package I sent Peihan.

       

This is Bubba (short for Bubhaleighnitzer).  I modeled him after Peihan's craftster avatar (pictured on the right), and gave him a little black messenger bag just for kicks.  I used chenille yarn, so he's nice and cuddly.  I had a lot of fun making him, and even more fun writing his bio.

In addition to the mint Hershey bar, I made some lime earrings for a little something extra.  Here's a close-up of Bubba showing them off (in bad lighting, poo!).

I followed this tutorial, and just added a couple of beads to finish.  The limes turned out a little bigger than what I would ideally want; if I were to make another pair of lime earrings, I'd probably use a smaller hook, like a 6 or an 8.  But I'm still quite satisfied with the finished earrings, so it's all good.

Comments

[megan]

Heehee, your Bubba makes me laugh (the lost lyrics from The Sound of Music)! How fun that you made her little mascot guy, I bet she loves him!

[Becky]

Thanks so much Shirley for the comment you left on my blog (made me smile)! I love Bubba! He's so cute, and I love his card. I also love the story of Sandy and Harold on the futon(giggles). I just wanted to say thanks because your blog has been a great source of inspiration for me (all of it, even the stuff I haven't mentioned)!

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I just wanted to say thanks because your blog has been a great source of inspiration for me