My little guy has been under the weather this week... it's been a rough few days and a real disappointment because he's missing his last days of school. But he's been excited by all the sewing taking place in my studio, ummm... I mean the dining room.
My tiny tomato pin cushion [originally my mother's] has been transformed into a little spider with most of the pins being moved to the bottom to act as feet and several google eyes glued to the front. He says it's a baby toy. A bit dangerous, but a very sweet baby toy. He has big love for google eyes, big love. This attraction is actually how his how his artistic career began, some of you may remember his Valentine's Day project which was all thought up by him. Since then he's been drawing dozens and dozens of one-eyed and multi-eyed monsters, spiders, snowmen, creatures, mommies with many legs and and at least one google eye.
He's been requesting a special pillow for himself and so we whipped one up two days ago. I used the same envelope pillow pattern from Maya Donenfeld's Reinvention. It's a really easy pattern because of the well-written instructions. I love it. I chose to paint a many-legged critter, part spider, part spirit similar to the ones found in Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away.
I think he really likes his new pillow even though he refused to be photographed with it. Klaus didn't mind modeling in his place. During the photo shoot, the boy decided to glue a google eye to a blueberry... anything and everything seems to wear a google eye in our house these days.
He also asked for a tiny pillow for his pet hedgehog. He helped with the stuffing, suggesting that we should use snow and clouds. And then, of course, I still need to make a tiny tent for the hedgehog, too. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow.