What's cookin'?

Any idea what's bubbling away on my cooktop? I'm dyeing two customised puppets!


And this becomes...


... this!

Yes, they are a pair of customized puppets, now dried in the washing machine spin-drier. The completed bat has wings cut from brown felt and the new eyes are flat beads in a pink plastic, Supaglued over the original black giraffe eyes. 50 cents for a packet containing lots (of future replacement eyes?) I love bargain shops!

The panther's eyes are some teardrop-shaped yellow plastic "jewels", originally bought for a different project. The only reason for turning a tiger into a panther was to give the bat a dunking buddy, and use up the leftover dye.


These two new additions (above) look rather sedate after the cooking pot episode!

Big cat dreaming

Big cats mural, behind bars, on the wall of Mount Druitt Office of the the NSW Department of Education & Training.

I pass this clever mural - I love the way it incorporates actual metal bars - every time I attend a regional meeting at Mount Druitt Office. Tohight, it was just on dusk when I walked by, but it still photographed well in the fading light.