Artist Richard Carpenter made this bear from “hundreds of thousands of pine needles. The pine needles were gathered off the ground, sorted, washed, trimmed and hand woven, over 8 months, in making the life size bear.”
From Cellar Image of the Day
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Mary Holstad creates realistic dogs and cats out of mohair.
Each creation is made with thick lush premium imported faux fur that is so soft to the touch. They have hand-embroidered lacquered noses, and premium hand-painted dark brown glass eyes. The face and feet are meticulously hand-trimmed, have hand-embroidered claws and hand-apliqued felt toes and pads. They are fully 5 way jointed, have sturdy armatures for posing and are stuffed with polyfill and plastic pellets for a nice weight.
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Andy’s Free Birdhouse Plans contains instructions on how to make a bird house suitable for the different kinds of birds known to use them or likely to do so. It is designed to encourage the protection and study of birds in all sections of the United States.
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Are you tired of your ugly, beat up, old mailbox?
Does yours look like everyone else’s up and down the street?
Well then, here’s a good winter project for you and some inspiring examples.
from Sam’s Mailbox Picture Collection
from Waymarking
“A generous Mail Box” uploaded by Sylvieblissplace
from Waymarking
from Waymarking
from Sam’s Mailbox Picture Collection
from Waymarking
from Mailboxes and Stuff
from Waymarking
from Waymarking
from Ugly Mailbox
from Sam’s Mailbox Picture Collection
“Manatee Mailbox” uploaded by Joe Shlabotnik
from Waymarking
“Timmy” turtle mailbox” uploaded by turtlemom4bacon
from Sam’s Mailbox Picture Collection
from Mariners Mailboxes
from Mariners Mailboxes
from Ugly Mailbox
from Morgan Home Accents
from Jana’s Journal
from Weirdomatic
from Ugly Mailbox
“Mailbox” uploaded by Prophetsflow
from the Mailbox Ranch
from Sam’s Mailbox Picture Collection
from Ugly Mailbox
The Williams-Sonoma internet catalog has these chocolate truffle mice listed for $15.00 for a set of four.
Made entirely by hand, they combine milk chocolate ganache centers with a coating of milk chocolate.
If you have a little time, you can make your own chocolate mice, like we did.
The nose is a Hershey’s kiss. The body is a maraschino cherry. Stick them together, dip into white or dark melted chocolate, use almond slivers for ears.
Done.
Cute. Easy. Cheap.
“Pink baby sockmonkey” uploaded by mollychicken
Woolies are created using a technique called needle-felting. In addition to selecting the highest quality pure carded bulk wool from Australia, America and England in various colors, each Woolie is treated to be moth-resistant.
To begin, the wool is pressed together or rolled tightly against itself into a basic form. This roughly formed wool is then sculpted into a specific shape with a felting needle.
There are a bunch of poses to choose from.
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