Spotlight

Would you like to meet some of the soft sculpture characters in the display cases here at the Flying Leap?  

Our landing on the second floor provides a great location for a little display area, and here's where the Scratching at the Window
creatures who are looking for new homes await adoption.  All were handmade by me from my own original designs.

Of course, it's hard not to be up-staged by a dragon with a 6-foot wingspan!  Fawn impressively oversees the landing as you climb up the stairs.  She took 2 1/2 years to construct and is not looking for a new home.




In the display case await the lady bears, with Lorelei the Merbear on the top shelf,  Emralda and Annette on the middle and Venus, Caviara and Seian on the third.

 Venus, Annette and Emralda are all about 14 inches tall, made of European mohair and built over a wire frame so they're very poseable.  They have glass eyes and doll wigs, and handmade costumes that were a lot of fun to create! 

Here's Seian as a bellydancer.  She also is not looking for a home.

 On the wooden shelf, we have 

Cere and Bella, two ratty brothers

Devina, a lady rat in her Hallowe'en best

Squirt and his mom Pearl

and my Titanic bear, with the commemorative 100th anniversary postage stamp.

If your keen to know more about these critters, please visit my Scratching at the Window website.  As you'll probably notice, some of the girls are not there yet so just contact me and I'll send you the adoption details.

Oscar nominations pending?

Okay, while they are decidedly amateurish, I've made two mini videos of Giselle the French Maid and Devina the She-Devil Rat! They're both on YouTube, but you can also catch them on their individual webpages. The purpose: perhaps someone on YouTube will stumble upon them and who knows?!

Besides, poor Giselle was still heart-broken about not getting any bids at the Philly auction and needed some loving attention to feel better!

Paperwork!

Less than a week to go!!!

One thing no one can avoid... paperwork! In this case, hang tags and descriptive tags for each one of the critters as they pack their bags for Philly! Time consuming but necessary.


Then Mom and I punched a lot of batty shaped holes to create this attractive handout! Trying to make something memorable to give to our first 100 interested collectors, we made these sets which include an Online Hallowe'en Artists' Studio Tour bookmark, a Bat Conservation International circular sticker and a postcard featuring a number of my critters, all tied together with cool sparkling blue yarn, the same color as our table covering. I think it will be a hit!