HOME | DD

Description
This was for a white elephant gift exchange we do every year, and to which I always contribute a piece of art. I found the head (beak and all!) at Dollar Tree and set out to purchase every piece of the model from the dollar store, or otherwise find/recycle them. After my car went dead in the middle of the week, I had to abandon that idea, but still managed to keep the total cost reasonable. Also, it got too cold to spray paint, so I had to apply color with tape (the red duct tape accounts for $4.)

Contents: Toy gumball machine from Dollar Tree, large medicine bottle (given to me by a pharmacy tech friend), cat bowl, mustard bottles, party favor slinkies, ribbon spool, seed bead containers, craft sticks, Sculpey Ultralight.

Build time: About 5 hours. Another hour, and I'd have been able to do the tooling on the base and put a proper front plate on him.

I may buy another head at some point and see if I can make a puppet out of it.

Description
This was for a white elephant gift exchange we do every year, and to which I always contribute a piece of art. I found the head (beak and all!) at Dollar Tree and set out to purchase every piece of the model from the dollar store, or otherwise find/recycle them. After my car went dead in the middle of the week, I had to abandon that idea, but still managed to keep the total cost reasonable. Also, it got too cold to spray paint, so I had to apply color with tape (the red duct tape accounts for $4.)

Contents: Toy gumball machine from Dollar Tree, large medicine bottle (given to me by a pharmacy tech friend), cat bowl, mustard bottles, party favor slinkies, ribbon spool, seed bead containers, craft sticks, Sculpey Ultralight.

Build time: About 5 hours. Another hour, and I'd have been able to do the tooling on the base and put a proper front plate on him.

I may buy another head at some point and see if I can make a puppet out of it.