The cool morning light falling on the photo-shoot backdrop feels so cool on could swear there is an igloo in the background. I am using 8s on the back of papa penguin so I am already up to his arm pits on the back. I might even use 8s on his belly since I have a jillion from a miss-order. On these larger beanie babies they seem to fit right in. Perhaps because the spaces are larger and the curves are not so tight. It will be interesting to see which yellow orange I use.I think I will go search real penguin pictures.

Godzilla in all his glory. You can almost see how I solved the problem of the color for the inside of his legs. I used both blue and green. If only I could always be so able to compromise! His eye looks demonic in this shot. Maybe he is!
I found a big penguin and a small one from the McDonald's series of happy meals in my last auction win so am planning to do the pair. Actually a Father's Day tribute without meaning to make one.
Rhoda brought her things for the summer camp at GAC to store here while she goes to Japan to show her beaded works. She had with her some tiny clay beads a guy in Mendocino made in his hippie years. He tumbled them to make them shine. Really incredible. She said he had four wheelbarrow loads of beads. She was selling them and now I wish I had gotten some.

T. Rex aka Godzilla as he grows up. I am so eager to add his spinal spines but I am forcing myself to wait until I get to the end of his tail. I have the opportunity of choosing a different color for the inside of his legs and green keeps coming to my mind, but I am not sure that is right. Maybe blue? No green. Until I load the beads on a needle this refrain will continue in my head.

Just sent the corrected proof of this off to the printer and am feeling very light and free. I think I could bead 10 animals today! Whew! the relief is a beautiful day in summer. Have been working on this since January and can hardly believe I did it!

Tyrannosaurus Rex looks more like Godzilla to me. Even the Ty Co. people made him red. I do love those new brown-gold beads from Precosia. It is perfect the way the red of the underground shines through. I had made a spinal ridge of spiky beads which I then cut out as they screwed up the lines of beads wrapping around his head. As I look at him here, though my new glasses, I miss the orange of that ridge and am eager to get it sewn back on. I had picked out some flat white beads for his eyes but see that they need to spike outward - maybe the little flower beads.

Speaking of eyes, I  did add these to the cat in red pants.

The white pussy cat is now different. That is about the best I can say about this attempt to be wild and colorful. I wanted to do another warrior cat but the need to be conventional overtook me. I had decided to not push myself into a new writing project during this week while I wait for the print proof of A Dictionary of Haiku (and my new in-focus glasses). However it seems my mind has turned to mush. It is as if I have taken relaxing too far so that I now resemble the stuffed toys I bead on.
Looking at the photo on the blog I realize that I forgot to add the eyes!

This is the entry I had for the exhibit "Art for Art's Sake" that opened at Gualala Arts Center on June 7th.

This is how my entry looked on that Friday night. At first when I saw the photo Barbara Fast had taken I wanted to go charging into the arts center in to change it back. Then reality came forward and told me that I really did not the strength or energy for the trip or the confrontation. So I had to let it go. Until this morning, with new energy I did want to record the event here in my journal. While typing this up I just got the idea of sending an email to the curator of the show, Bruce Jones to ask him to change it back. That I can do!

This cat is clearly letting me know what it wants to be. I love it when I only have to hesitate a few seconds to get the message of the next thing to add. Thankfully so far the cat has been right. It would really hurt to have to rip out these tiny beads.

I wanted you to see the chest view so the little vest made sense. I think I am now doing trousers, but I could be wrong! We will see what a foggy Sunday with not much to do will mean to these colors.