Once the blasted thing was being crocheted together, it was far too big to carry about to continue working on, so I have two smaller projects in the finishing stages that were my breaktime crochet at work. And since I seem very adept at choosing projects that in hindsight seem terribly poignant, the amigrumi I am finishing for a 4-year-old's birthday gift is a personification of Death.
Lighten up, he's a very spooky little kid, much like I was at so tender an age. The idea came after I heard him talking about a commercial for a "...singing skeleton man" and I instantly knew he was referring to The Nightmare Before Christmas. Since said former little student was so fond of my crocheting, especially my prototype toys, it seemed very natural to combine the two. Henceforth, the spooky child will be receiving the dvd of TNBC and his own vaguely morbid toy. His brother, whose birthday is only a week earlier will most likely get a grey newsboy cap and a copy of the musical Newsies- I do my best to encourage the arts when I can...that and I'm REALLY sick of him singing songs from the High School Musical series whenever anyone asks him to sing. I'm pretty sure Zaquisha Efron and crew are what they pump through the speakers in Hell.
Well, back to work.
g.o.
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