The rooster is already looking for his breakfast. His feet look more like duck feet than those of a chicken because he cannot balance on his legs. Still one knows he is not a duck and chickens will squat down like this; especially the hens, which he is not.
I am now working on a lovely mouse from the BABE set of McDonald's gift toy es. These five are from the movie, "Babe" and each of them is well done. They are plump and solid. Not floppy like the beanie babies. They are about the same size and seem to take about the same length of time to bead..
Again the text tool in Blogspot will not allow to go back to make toyes into toys.  I am about ready to change my blogger.

So the Springy Rabbit pair are done. I forgot to put beady eyes in Mr. White Belly but I see from the photo that it actually looks better this way. Somehow I get great joy from seeing the pair together. I was missing the usual pink roses I use on these and had to invent a new system using my regular ribbon roses. And they look a lot better! No ugly wire stems!
I have returned to the chicken to sew on the last of the white beads. I am finding these Precoisa do really fit together as closely as I wish.
Got a note from Vicki that while she was gallery sitting at CHAC - Coast Highway Art Collective, in Point Arena on Monday that she sold three animals! Many thanks Vicki! That inspires me to get back to my beading tray.

I wanted to show the new white Precosia beads. They are so much more uniform than the Dynamite white opaque. Here it looks like I have a diaper on the rooster, but I was just trying them out. It was worth cutting off a couple days beading to get this better look.

Again I was able to do the rabbit with the lovely herringbone back. I have some wrinkles on the right foot. I plan to take out a couple rows with the hope that I can do that side as nice as the other side is.

Posting #700

So you can see the difference between the white-belly rabbit and the other species - purple belly. I changed colors because I have enough white pearl beads (I think) but that ecru color has only a few of about 4 different shades. I see I need to add the whiskers to the purple one. I cannot find the tiny roses I put in his hand in the first rabbit. I am hoping they will reveal themselves by the time I have both of these done.

Finally a good photo of the monkey that shows his fake amber brain and his eyes as they look in real life. Oops I see I forgot to finish the tip of one hand. That's what happens when I run out of thread. Good I saw this.

I am so pleased with the way the back of the bunny is turning out! Because the head is turned to one side, the center of the fishbone pattern ends up behind his ear as the seam does here in the photo. Still I want to do a second one with a white tummy. There is way too much purple here on the hare.

In the meantime I started on Springy the Lavender Rabbit. Only when I got this far with the tummy did I remember that the last time I did the tunny with white pearls and it looked good. I did stuff out the tummy so the rows are smooth and even but I wished I had done them in white. Thank goodness I have a second rabbit and am thinking that I will do it after I finish this one to make a white body front.

The monkey is done but the photo does not show his head jewel very well and I see I need more contrast for his eyes. Back to the beading tray with this one.