Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Crazy Hair Kids

I haven't been in the beading mood lately but I've still kept busy. I was asked to design some pillow toys for The Hodgepodgery, a local shop that specializes in recycled crafts. It sounded easy... but it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Once I had the basic design of the toys it took me forever to come up with a simple stitched face. I had friends and family vote and every design I came up with was- too scary, too weird, too sleepy, too old looking, etc. Finally, I came up with a face that most people liked.

Then I had to come up a name for my new toys. This proved harder than the face design. Once again I had voting and I think everyone came up with a different name. I decided on Crazy Hair Kids because they all have crazy hair... and I got tired of thinking of names.

Here's the first group that will head off to the shop.


The girls have a hair bow and a ruffle. The boys have a bow tie. Everything I used is recycled or salvaged except for the poly-fil.

4 comments:

Mary T Designs said...

Those are WAY CUTE!! Love the bow ties on the boys - LOL!

Live, Love, Laugh, Write! said...

Those are really cute!

Marsha Wiest-Hines said...

Adorable! So sorry to hear aobut your wrist.

Marlaine said...

Wow...how cute! And how creative of you to come up with them! I'm sure they will be a hit!