Hair today, gone tomorrow

I didn't think that it could be possible for hair to get so tangled up in a hairbrush that it wouldn't untangle again. I was wrong.

This morning, I experienced exactly that and it turned out to be quite an ordeal: For over an hour, hairbrush and hair were bound together by impossible knots. After the attempts to pull out the hair by hand failed, Rob had to plier out each and every bristle of the hairbrush until it was no longer functional - only then could my hair be set free. I lost A LOT of hair in the process but am totally relieved no scissors came near. Rob is my hero!

Now I sit here writing this with a sore scalp and a slight bald patch on my head. However, the fact that I just ate some very yummy lobster makes up for the terrible experience :)

Oh, and some of my best clothes got thrown into a maggot infested garbage bin today but that's another story...

2 Birds and the Gingernaut

Recently I've not been posting here as much as I'd like to because I've got quite a few projects going on at the moment. Visual candy relating to those projects will be coming soon though. I do, however, have two things to show you today:

2 little crocheted thank you cards


AND this.

This the secret of the gingerbread men Rob & I have been munching: they are actually edible clones of the Juggernaut. Thanks to a secret camera, we were able to capture a gingerbread man in the day(left) and the same man at night(right).

Just a smiley innocent sweet treat? I think not.

Portfolio re-design

In the past, a few people mentioned that the design of my portfolio stretched a little too long for their browser so today I decided that I had to give it a small make-over. Work + info + contact pages are now merged into a single page with the small (and admittedly, very useless) flash menu saying it's goodbye. Some illustrations also got the chop because the gallery was getting a bit overloaded.

Domestic Goddess

A personal response to this Times article.

Oliver the Great

Wailord Wishes

Yep, this is a Pokemon because some Pokemon are cool.


Card made for Ian & the Wailord was created in 3D.

Scared

Psst...pinched the "ARHH" from an older pic but I think it's okay :)

First 3D scene

Woohoo my first ever fully 3D scene!! I'm so proud.



++ Single tree

Twitteroo

Rob and I made ourselves a Twitter today :) So it only reads a very monotone "Cheeeeeeeeeeeese" so far, but if you're interested in what our minds brew and what stuff we discover online, feel free to follow!

Squid Kid

It's been quite a while since I last had a play around in 3D so I decided to make my little 2009 "squid kid" come alive. Had lots of fun with this and it's got me into modelling again so there may be more to come very soon!



On another note, I've had many comments from people here and at DeviantArt suggesting what my weird fruit thing could actually be. For general interest and merriment, here is a list of all the suggestions:

• Daikon
• Ill-shaped pear
• Naked pineapple
• Lovechild of a turnip and strawberry
• Marshmellow fruit
• Big tic-tac fruit
• Undeveloped grape
• Giant japanese winter berry
• Candyfloss

As a conclusion, I think that I will settle on it being a giant tic-tac fruit because that seems to be what it looks like the most, but I love hearing all the fun ideas so thank you for exercising your minds!