My “Barbara the Hug Me! Sock Zebra” is featured in this Etsy for Animals: Artists Helping Animals treasury on Etsy. Thanks, Michele! Etsy for Animals, also known a EFA, is an Etsy team that my mom and I joined. They are a group of artists, craftspeople, vintage suppliers, and art and craft suppliers who combine their efforts to help animals in need. Many of the members donate a portion of their Etsy sales to animal charities. To find EFA members on Etsy, you can search the words “team efa“. You can also click here to visit the EFA website where you can read more about the group.
Tag: Soft Dolls and Art Toys
Some hang tag variety
I was printing up hang tags for my original art toys yesterday, and I realized not all my characters had tag designs that went with them. I decided I should add to my hang tag assortment. So I sketched a sock doll, scanned my drawing, and then played around with the color on the computer until it matched my previous hang tags. I think it came out pretty cute.
Once I print this out on some card stock, I’ll glue it, using an acid-free glue stick, to some heavyweight scrapbook paper, punch a hole through the top, and thread ribbon through the hole. I use a little Fray Check on the ends of the ribbon. I’ve done a pile of these so far!
The menagerie continues to grow
There are a lot of critters staring at me around here lately. I’m starting to feel a little self-conscious when I walk into my workroom. I’m glad they look friendly.
And they seem to get along with each other pretty well, at least while I’ve been around.
This is Hilda the hippopotamus’ new friend, “Barbara the Hug Me! Zebra”. Like Hilda, she has hand-embroidered features, and a removable, elastic-waist skirt made from quilting calico cotton.
Barbara also has a pretty cool yarn mohawk,
and a tuft of purple yarn at the end of her tail.
It’s been about 100 degrees here, during the daytime, and our injured duck friend has been staying on the water. He’s only come up the hill just this once, this evening, since we tried to help him before, and again, it’s too late to get to the vet 🙁 If we can get the timing right, hopefully we can catch the duck away from the pond during business hours, when we can catch the vet too. He does seem to be doing better, but I’m sure he’d feel much improved once that hook is out. Here’s hoping.
Sixteen slugs are a lot
Especially when they all need names.
Me: “C’mon, wanna help me name some slugs?”
My mom: “How about ‘Tommy’?”
Me: “Okay, which one looks like ‘Tommy’?”
My mom: “Um, that one.”
Me: “What does this one look like?”
My mom: “I don’t know. They all have the same face.”
Me: “No, they’re different…”
Lilith
Megan
Brady
Marshal
Timothy
Stephanie
Millie
Stella
Ryan
Molly
Riley
Macy
Tommy
Edith
Eddie
RachaelThese “Hug Me! Slugs” are all up for adoption over in my Etsy shop. I’ll keep all the available soft dolls and toys on this page of our website too, just to try to keep things organized 🙂
In duck news, we haven’t heard back from the avian vet and, in the meantime, we haven’t seen the limping duck, except from a distance, floating on the pond. Then he disappeared. We’ve had visits from the one mama and papa duck and their one duckling, but those have been the only sightings. Just hoping for the best with their tiny flock, and we’ll do what we can. Have you noticed that animal emergencies always seem to happen on weekends or when the vet isn’t there? It is surprisingly difficult to find anyone who will treat white ducks who live in the wild. The wildlife rehabilitation organizations we’ve contacted before only treat native animals, which makes finding help tricky. So, fingers crossed for them.
