Surprise!

[nid_dabeille]

I finished my Surprise Family!  (Jack, Stephen, Sophie, Diana.)

Disclaimer:  I did not make the bodies.  I just dressed and adorned them They're just standard little wooden manikins.  (Where did the spelling "manikin" come from?  What happened to "mannequin"?  Anyway, these are called 4 1/2" wood "manikins.")  (My art supply store was having a huge going-out-of-business sale, and they were only $2.50 each!  How could I resist???)

Surprise!!!

An unfortunately typical scene.  (Jack underestimated his own strength.)


A more pleasant scene.  Diana sans base, because with it she positively towers over Stephen, especially with her outre' hair.

ETA:  As a joke, I made Stephen a temporary wig out of my cat's fur, but when I tried to photograph him wearing it, the cats became very interested.  In fact, Nemo ended up carrying it off in his mouth and destroying it.  I didn't mind.

For more pictures (including closeups of the fabulous wigs, and Stephen wigless and also with his messy!wig, see my photobucket album.  Do it!!!

Comments

[ozfille]

Where did the spelling "manikin" come from? What happened to "mannequin"?

I guess people who can't spell have taken over the world.

Your cat obviously just felt the magnetic attraction of "the Stephen Maturin", beloved of all the animal world or at least a representation of him or maybe he was channelling Killick who never approved of the standard of Stephen's dress or his wig. *g*

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well I've decided that it's the WIG that attracts animals to Stephen. They didn't bother him at all when he was wigless, and they weren't really interested in the other people. But when he was wearing his horrible cathair wig, they were drawn irresistibly to him!!!

Do you like my manikins? :D

[ozfille]

Yes they're cute, but isn't Jack a little too trim? Perhaps some padding for his tummy. He is a full 15 stone as estimated by Stephen when he checked out Jack's posterior poking out of his little observatory.*g*

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

"manikin" looks like you spell it like "Männeken", isn't that Belgian for boy or little man?

Hee, love the Surprises. Stephen and the animals...

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

IT IS! :D Without the umlaut, though. ;) Manneken Pis.

Dialectic Flemish, too... Well, PROPER dialectic Flemish. Real Brussels dialect has it at "Menneke".

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

Those Germans and their ä, ö, and ü! *shakes head* Well, I know it is occassionally used in German written like that. Usually not in very serious contexts, though.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Hee. We only do the umlaut thing on e's in plurals, but that's about it.

You use "ken" as a diminutive as well? I though "-chen" or something like that.

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

Well, it is -chen or -lein, but I am familiar with the term Männeken. We must have added it to our vocabulary. Well, considering how many English words we use (it's called "Denglisch", heehee), one Belgian one can't hurt.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Muaha. Belgium invades Germany in something! ONE WORD! It's a start.

Soon, we will take over your entire language! Muaha!

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

*confused* I thought the people with the secret world domination plan were the Australians! I had a discussion on that with ozfille some time ago. I think it ended with her being led away by the friendly men in the white coats.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Oh, the druids?

Cool. :O

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

Could have been a one-woman-world-domination plan. The memory is fuzzy. The Australian gouvernment probably gave me some memory-fuzzying drugs to cover everything up!

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

It's called alcohol, I think.

[des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com]

Alcohol? But I have puncture wou- oh, it's just a mosquito bite.
...Okay, maybe it could have been a Strawberry Daiquiri.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Hee.