Very cute!

Last year, I was subbing a marine biology class and they were watching a video about the animals in the deepest parts of the ocean.  That is when I say the cutest chephalopod ever.  The Grimpoteuthis is called the Dumbo Octopus because of the large fins on the top of its body/head.  They live deeper in the ocean than any other Octopus species.  I seriously spent the rest of the day doodling it.  
This year I decided to make it an ornament.  




Next up for the Dumbo Octopus, a large plushy!

I used to doodle this owl on everything, so I decided I would make some ornaments out of the doodle.  I really like they are turning out, but I keep running out of ideas for colors.  
This one is my favorite!

This costume takes me back.  Great job!

When Halloween was over and all my decorations had gone back into their rubbermade homes.  I sort of got sad, but then I remembered that I had less then a month before I put up my Christmas tree!  So I pulled out my felt a whipped up some ornaments.  
First, I made a round ornament and it reminds me of the old vintage glass ornaments my grandparents put on their tree.  I loved this one so much I am going to make a set of four for my grandparents for Christmas.
  
I love the look of Russian nesting dolls so I made two of those using shisha mirrors as the center medalian.  

So I usually do detailed pumpkins, but they are always from a still from a movie or someone else's illustration.  This year I decided I wanted to make a pumpkin from my own drawing.  I was working on an embroidery project with these zombie girls and they ended up looking better on a pumpkin. 


I added red paint to the pumpkin, because you cannot have zombies without blood. 



I used a giant white pumpkin and I swear I will never use an orange pumpkin again. 

It's been some years since I was far enough ahead on my costume to make something for the yard.   Plus, add in my somewhat irrational fear of power tools.  I have been planning on doing this for at least two years, and last week I finally got started and found a jigsaw volunteer.  I'm pretty excited with how it turned out, but I did get a little carried away with the details.  


Here it sits in it's rightful place with the haunted dry cleaning on the door.  

This is the Tim Burton drawing I worked off for my piece.  

So I liked my superhero barrettes a lot, and then my friend said that she wanted a Psylocke barrette.  I then played with some felt and came up with a some X-Men barrettes from her requests.  They are quite fun to make because there are so many different colors with X-Men.



From left to right:  Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, Rogue, Psylocke, and Wolverine


Iceman is my favorite!  The colors are quite pretty. 

After learning a new shisha stitch technique, I wanted to make a Wonder Woman barrette and figured out a way to make a 5 pointed star.  Once I found a way to make the star work I started a Captain America barrette.


I love the Captain America one the most.  



I am working on a couple X-Men barrettes for a friend now and having a blast with this.  

Those are so cute!