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

[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.