Hey You!
How are you enjoying these first few days of "Spring"? (Northern Hemis, and is fall starting for the Southern Hemis??) Does it actually feel like springtime where you are? Here in Utah, we're definitely having a typical snow to sunshine to snow to rain to sunshine Spring. It's gross, but we're used to it.
Okay, can I tell you about the Humpty this month? I really wanted to make something inspired by my sweet friend Emily's (Quest for the Beasties) mossy stone and stump beasties. (I have one of these special babies that she made especially for me whom I look at everyday!)
I gathered my materials, got to work and made a cute little "Mossy Stone Humpty" as I had planned. And while the little guy is very cute, I couldn't help but feel that he was lacking the spark I had envisioned. I still can't quite put my thumb on what it was, but something in my heart just wasn't satisfied with the execution, so I set him aside and decided to sit on it for a few days. He was definitely cute enough to use for Humpty Club, but hmmmm.....
So, a few days passed and I did some sketches and decided that what I wanted to make was a Moss Goblin instead. I needed to make something with big ears, I think. My sketch also oddly included the style of lips I usually reserve for my Swampies. But it felt right. Haha.
You can tell I spent all of four and a quarter seconds on this doodle, but I just had to splash it down to make sure my brain was on right track. My original mossy stone Humpty has a little patch of moss to the side and small white flowers growing from the moss, which is what I included in the sketch.
I started with all the same fabrics I had used for Disappointing Stone Guy (he's not that bad, I'll probably pop him in the shop with some other humpties I have set aside - I'm just being mean), rearranged their placements, added the collar, goblin ears, and pouty lips, used a button nose, omitted the little flowers and played with the perfectly color matched felted balls I had in my stash. Basically, flow state.
Here is the final Moss Gob:
She just has so much more personality and I'm much happier with her. There's some sort of granny chic thing going on that I am so satisfied with.
STICKER CLUB
The sticker club was more straightforwardly born. Although, I don't have a photo of the completed design yet as I have not received them from Sticker Ninja.
