Wild About Harry: Mindy the Mandrake

So...I went and made a mandrake almost a month ago.  I wasn't going to.  And yet I did.  I couldn't help myself.

I can't so easily explain how to make this one though.  I can only tell you I used pantyhose, stuffing, my imagination, and started molding her using needle and a thread,

The Redhead named her Mindy and The Redhead's reaction seeing her the very first time has been permanently embedded in my brain.

Just staring at her makes me giddy.  And she's just as adorable in person.

 That face!

That body!

That Redhead!

She loved her so much that she had Mindy spend the first couple of nights in her room in a little bed.

Mindy has been well cared for.

And so far, we haven't even needed earphones while being in her presence.  But it's only time.

For now though, she's in her pot.  Waiting.

Wild About Harry: A Monstrous Mess

On May 9th, almost a month ago, I made a monstrous mess.  Then again, I've been making lots of messes around my house.

And I've also made some very simple things.  It varies.

It's amazing the things you can make with simple materials such as pom-poms.

And wooden boxes from Michael's.  And foam.

And eyeballs.

For $4.99, you can buy a wooden "book" from Michael's.  It looks like a book!  And if you use a coupon like I did, it's even cheaper.

I used some leftover foam I had in the garage.  In fact, I tore up a couch for this foam.  True story.  We had this couch that was NOT worth passing on, so I started tearing it up.  And I saved a lot of the foam sheets from it, knowing I would use them for something, anything.

So my something, anything started like this.

And then this.

And before I knew it, I was at this point.  With some funky teeth from the Dollar Tree.

 And creepy eyes from the Hobby Lobbyists.

The only real snag came when I noticed what happened to my jeans!

It looked like I skinned a cat or at least shaved one or something.

And this photo is mild in comparison to the real mess.

Yeah.  That's the couch.

And the leftover fabric.

It looks like I stuck the cat in a bag.

But this.  This is amazing.

If you're unfamiliar what this actually is, you need to get out more.  Read more.  Watch more.

Because this is the Monster Book of Monsters.

Or the Monster Book of Messes, as I've dubbed it.

Our poor couch.

So with easy supplies, Hogwarts has been coming along quite magically.

These are puffy pygmies, or rather, pygmy puffs.  Just in case you didn't know.

He was hungry.

I think Hagrid would be proud.

It's Finally Here

And when I type "finally," I mean the this school year flew by.  Again.  But also, I've had to watch people announce the last day of school through social media for the last three weeks.  

It's finally our turn.

Also, a lot of schools across the US are still in session, so I know how lucky we are.  I also know, if we were still in Kansas, our last day would have been May 14th, and they started after us too.  Hardly seems fair, but I'll stop whining now.  Maybe.  It's just that I'm anxious to have The Redhead all to myself; and this is coming from the mother who refuses to home school, no matter how much her spouse has continued to beg.

Wait....does this mean I'm going to have a sixth grader?!