"Is it possible to be pedantic about ice cream?"

[nid_dabeille]

My friend ldhenson has been sewing the most amazing and adorable things recently.  A bat, a dragon, a Batarang, and a Cornetto ice cream.  I can't decide which I like best!

Let me show you them.

    

    

Comments

[esteven]

I love her bat (which I will attempt myself at some stage) and her fire lizzard.

She is a most talented person.

[widgeon7.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing. Especially the ice cream!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

The bat made me squee with joy. It's so cute! And life sized!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Aren't they?? (hello.)

[widgeon7.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I'd want them for my very own if they weren't the sort of plush toy my little dog finds fascinating. (I do intend to occasionally visit LJ, now I am done with sewing until the end of the year. :P)

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

That's... not a real cornetto?

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Plushie. Click on the link up there.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Such a cute lil' bat! And I adore the ice cream - *L*! How did she start doing such things?

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Then explain to me why I still want to lick it!

[snakey.livejournal.com]

*does not comment*

[snakey.livejournal.com]

These are fantastic! <3

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

*deathglare*

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

::hugs grace_poppy::

Thanks for the sweet comments, everyone. You made my day.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I picked up Carolyn Vosburg Hall's book Sewing Tiny Toys on a whim at the library, made the bat, and was hooked. The rest of the designs are fannish-inspired, which as we all know is a great source of motivation :-D

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Cornetto: <D

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Anything with the word "tiny" catches my eye. I still want to see that book for myself. It sounds so fun!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

She sews magical hypnosis into each of her creations, that's why. The cornetto says "eat me," the dragon says "run away screaming," the Batarang says "quit doing stupid things, you idiot" and the bat says "hold still while I drink your blood."

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

You're a star!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I thought the Batarang would make a good dog toy. Though it would be kind of a waste of all that sewing talent to make something so cute just to be chewed up and drooled on.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

And she designed the others herself! Isn't that amazing? (And even the bat was adapted from the original, with her own innovations.) The dragon amazes me with the complexity of the design.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Wow - they're so neatly-done! That seems hard to do by hand, but I'm sure you can't use a sewing machine for something so small. The ice cream cone is brilliant. *G*

(p.s. Where did you get your name from?)

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

because you're a tootsie... muppet?


*G*

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's all by hand. Some of the tiny toys in the book can be done by machine, so theoretically it's possible, but it would take someone far more coordinated than I and I don't have a machine anyway.

Haha, the ice cream can sit on my desk and it won't melt.

My name is from my penname (Lynne Dhenson) that I've been writing fanfic under for lo these many years now.

Funny icon you have there.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, the dragon says "quick, go find Christian Bale."

...or maybe that's just me.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

<D Hahaha!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Hey, I remember that icon! I think we had a conversation about it one time, because it reminded me of a frosted glass door that would say something like "Dept. of Finances" etc. Welcome to the offices of the Lords of Gondor; please take a seat and we'll be right with you.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I still haven't seen the movie. (Which movie is it again?)

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Reign of Fire. Really great premise, some good people behind it, iffy execution. The SFX are wonderful, but the plot leaves a little to be desired.

It's also one-half of my x-over fanfic that's been in progress for two years now (yikes!).

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... must be my default one; I got on-line via interest in the Lord of the Rings. Those are 3 of the four "hobbits" from a fun photo shoot they did; I like to call them the "Reservoir Hobbits", ala "Reservoir Dogs".

Which is how I ended up seeing your creations, seeing as how the "hobbit" Billy Boyd acted in "Master and Commander", which got me to read the books, which got my friend tootsiemuppet (a fellow LOTR nutter) to read the books and OBSESS about them... which lead her to fellow Master and Commander fanatic Grace Poppy... who featured your toys!

I checked out your page; are the "newsboys" your creation, based on historical fact?

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

I fell hard for the LOTR movies when they came out...and my friends had to drag me to see FOTR in the first place! And I ended up loving it more than they did. LOTR's actually responsible for getting me into sewing, as I used to lurk on the LOTR costume group on Yahoo. I never made a replica costume, but it did motivate me to attempt my first outfit (LOTR-influenced of course). Funny where fandom leads you, isn't it...

are the "newsboys" your creation, based on historical fact?

You mean my website, No. 9 Duane Street? That's all facts, the results of my research into the real NYC newsboys' lodging houses at the turn of the century. It was sparked by my interest in Newsies, which led me to look into the real history.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

*L*! Ditto - I was a diehard bookfan and thought the movies would be terrible. Ooo - LOTR costuming - cool.

"Newsies" - that was a... Disney musical from, geez... 10 years ago or so? Very cool. Are you into the Master and Commander stuff at all, too (i.e., the Patrick O'Brien books)?

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

*back from imdb*

Not a bad guess - although I was off by 5 years. But... Christian Bale?!?!? Was the lead? My - he has had an even more varied career than I realized. I'll have to check that out one day - thanks!

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Christian Bale?!?!? Was the lead?

That was my reaction, too. "What? He...what?!" And the only reason I saw it is that I became a bit of a Bale fan after Batman Begins (another movie my friends had to drag me to; I'm beginning to think they know more about what movies I'll like than I do). Newsies isn't really my type of movie, but the period setting grabbed me.

I came to M&C (and thus met grace_poppy) by way of Russell Crowe, whom I've been a fan of for a long time. The setting helped, too, as I also like Sharpe and Hornblower. I've read the first couple books, and it's only lack of time that keeps me from getting deeper into it.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I forgot Christian Bale was in Newsies! Was he also in Swing Kids? Or was that Ethan Hawk? And/or Dead Poets Society? I get all those guys mixed up. Usually it's "Christian Bale, or that other guy who isn't Christian Bale."

I just saw Christian Bale in 'Empire of the Sun' for the first time since I was old enough to appreciate it, and he was so good for a little youngster!!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot he was the "boy" in Henry V too! (And I just looked him up and saw that he was indeed in Swing Kids, but it was Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society.)

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Watch out... when you finally get going with them, you won't be able to stop! *G*

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

He amazes me in Empire of the Sun. It's a hard movie to sit through at my age, let alone make the movie at the age he was then.

I've also never been able to get all the way through Swing Kids, the presence of CB and Robert Sean Leonard notwithstanding. I have an interest in WWII, but I'm also a bit of a wuss.