Here is my desk right now. I didn’t even clean up for you – just snapped a picture as it is at this moment. You can see the third, and last for now, cube zoo lion in need of a mouth and two more legs. Thank you, Fiona for the idea of posting works in… 

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I finished the second lion in the cube zoo series. I wanted to do one in black and green. His sides are black wool felt and grey wool, his face is a heavy flannel backed with interfacing so it wouldn’t tear, and his mane is made up of all sorts of green and white cotton… 

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Okay, I’ve reworked the legs on my square lion (thanks, Charlie, for pushing me to try again) and I’m much happier with them. They are sturdier and I think they add more character to the overall animal. Here’s the pile of arms and legs that didn’t work and here is a front and side view… 

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I’m working a few new pieces in preparation for the Plush You show. This is a prototype for a square lion. There are a few areas that I need to work on, mainly new legs and feet and maybe a longer mane. He is made from corduroy, wool, white canvas, and a vintage floral cotton…. 

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We’re back from Connecticut. We had a nice time with my in-laws and my twin nieces, Jordan and Ellis. Little Simon met everyone and was very well-behaved. Roxanne went on a hunger strike for some reason, perhaps due to feeling overwhelmed at meal time by sharing the table with two other two-year-olds, but she’s eating… 

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While walking in Brookline yesterday I picked up this random scrap of paper. It caught my eye because of the grid. I think it is some kind of sales and commision record that became scrap paper because it had an aol email printed out on the other side. During nap time yesterday I made it… 

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Let’s see. I started pumping once a day so that Charlie can give Simon a bottle in the evenings in the hopes that he will like taking a bottle enough for me to leave her with someone else once in a while. So far so good, except today I was pumping and reading some blogs… 

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Roxanne is obsessed with this horrible anthology of stories by Margaret and H. A. Rey. Over and over again we have to read about Katie Kangaroo and Whiteblack the penguin and Cecily G. and Elizabite. Seriously it is mind numbing, but one of the stories, “Pretzel”, is actually pretty funny. It’s about the longest dog… 

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