Carolyn got me hooked on a crazy line of cartoon characters, I guess you'd called them, by a Japanese company called Aranzi Aronzo. After temporarily kidnapping a couple of her books of patterns showing you how to make stuffed toys, I got a copy of one of the books they've recently published in English:
And here I am, wantonly disregarding the advice they give toward the end of the book against using the "mascots" as bookmarks, since it looks painful:
Finally, here's a shot from last weekend of Mad Scientist Ellie in her egg-dyeing laboratory, with helpful assistant Grandpa in the background:
Ellie's getting so big! Did she have fun with the dyeing?
Posted by: monica | April 12, 2007 at 03:28 PM