Leonieblog

I've just had a filling taken out and redone at the dentists and I feel terrible, so I think I'll work from home today. Although I'm sure that everyone would enjoy my company more now that I can't speak. I took Barry's advice and got an A3 scanner (he's right, they are pretty cheap on Amazon), but I can't hook it up yet as there is no-where to put it.

I went to the aquarium yesterday to do some research (well, any excuse to go to the aquarium will do). The baby dogfish were the cutest things in the world, but I couldn't get a decent photo of them. The wolf fish liked the camera was happy to pose, the rays were quite photogenic too but some naughty sharks kept swimming past just as I was taking the picture. So I got a lot of blurry shark photos. I took quite a few pictures of the octopus, which I needed for reference. I tried to draw him too, but it was a bit tricky. Some lady was informing her kids that a single octopus is called an octopi and that the squiggly things were called anenemas. Yep, aquariums are very educational. when I worked in a gallery I once heard a teacher tell her class that crustaceans were a type of flower.

There's nothing quite like a beer and some wrestlin' on a nice spring day. Another lovely sunny weekend at the pub with friends has cheered me up. Donnas advice was very good, although I did bump in to her at the bar and now that she has seen me drunk she may not suggest that again.

Here is the next puppet in my 24 finger puppet range. I made President Palmer for Emma, next I'm making Tony and then I want to try making Nina. Matt has suggested making some to sell, but I'm sure trading standards would have something to say about that.