all the small things

This is the initial photo I saw on Pinterest. I shared it with a friend I was on the phone with at the time to co-witness the beautiful curation of images I was receiving. She urged me to find out more about him and gang!!!! It is So Good!!

Les Mutts is a series of characters (and toys of course) designed by Francesca Hoerlein in the 1980’s. Other characters I’ve come across for for sale at the moment are Le Patches and Fifi La Femme. And there are clothes sets! And Books! And shortfilms!

Yes! Yes! There are short films!

There is a whole cast of Les Mutts puppets and they have the cutest little YouTube channel!

My two favorites are TEAMWORK, and Better Living Through Duckness, Chapter One.

TEAMWORK is about Mutt and Wolfie working together to prepare a meal, it’s such a peaceful little short the combination of the music and the visuals is SUCH a treat. The Better Living Through Duckness series is charming and funny and I’m so sad there’s so few of them!

Let’s meet our competitors!

Left to right, top to bottom we have Victoria, Caterpillar, Bingo and Bark.

Tori was a lot of hard work to make and by far the most fun to dress up. Caterpillar is my little guy and most iconic frankenplush. Bingo has been the best part of my most recent special interest, dinosaurs (specifically feathered theropods like velociraptor). Bark was my very first furby and first custom anything! I hand sewed him a fluffy tail because y’know. Wolf :•)

The favorites of my bestie and the closest sibling I could find at the time are Laika and Ellie!

Laika is an art doll I made after Mothra, she is part of a series I’m making including her five friend that I still intend to finish!! And she’s my brother’s favorite. In my head she’s a college student who feels kind of like a mess kind of all the time. I’m working on her closest friend Beau the Parti Poodle at the moment.

A toy that was gifted to you.

This is Seamus 💚

This is Sylvie. I have no idea how she first came into my life, but kid me held onto her and eventually she became the first doll I ever customized. Thus igniting a new interest that makes me so happy to this day.

She’s actually the doll of a doll. American Girl Samantha’s Doll. I don’t have any memory of ever having an AG doll but here we are! This is what she looked like originally.

No idea where my doll’s toy soldier (or the doll of a doll of a doll, if you will) went off to. Sylvie’s jumpsuit was the first time I tried making doll clothes, it was originally supposed to be for Laika, but it ended up not fitting her lmao. I painted her face the only way I knew how at the time, with acrylic paint and sealed with paint varnish. I want to repaint her again one day with all that I know now :•)

This is Cinco, one of the newer beanie babies. I got her at a grocery store beanie stand because I noticed for some reason they gave all the cat beanies five embroidered toe beans. And only, specifically, the cats. I don’t know why????

Lots! I moved three times last year and I’ve donated a lot of my collections in order to make that work but there are some I will never be able to part with, like Sam.

Sam is a “Lightning the Horse” beanie baby released in 2002.