Bert

The top two pictures are of my new Bert and the bottom one is of the original Bert made by Fisher-Price. Quite a difference isn't there? Bert was a lot of fun to make. I had been thinking about making him for a long time. Months ago, when I was first thinking about making him, I knew that I wanted to use yarn for his hair, but I didn't know how I could glue it on so it would look right. I also couldn't figure out how I could make his ears. After a long time thinking about it, I think I've figured out a way that worked! For his hair, I used the same method as I did for the Zoe figure in an earlier post (drilling a hole in the head, glueing the yarn into the hole with epoxy, triming to length). For the ears I cut off the rounded ends of some little craft sticks that I found at the dollar store. They are also glued on with epoxy. Now I need to make Bert's best buddy Ernie!

New Sesame Street figures

Here's Zoe, Elmo and Grover from Sesame Street! As hard as it is to part with them, I have them up for sale on Ebay. This is the first time I have ever tried making Zoe, and I really like how she turned out. Her little pigtails are actually yarn. What I did was drill a hole in each side of her head, put a little epoxy glue in the holes, as well as on the ends of two strands of yarn, and twist them into the holes. Then I just trimmed the yarn to size, put a little more epoxy around the yarn and that's it!

An Update!

How about that, a new update! These guys here are based on the old Droids cartoon series from the mid 1980's. Here we have R2-D2, Jann Tosh and C-3PO. Droids had some great characters (with colorful costumes!) and I plan on making more from that series.