Can't Be Unseen | Crocheted Shorts For Men

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Undead Teds

Phillip Blackman is a British illustrator who repurposes soft toys and transforms them into fluffy, bloody horrors.

UndeadTeds via Laughing Squid

Halloween | Master Pumpkin Carving

Click on the images to enlarge them. Check out many more wonderful examples of pumpkin carving and sand sculpting  at the Villafane Studios' website.

Maybe it's just me, but don't a lot of the faces look like George Bush?

Thanks, Phyl

DIY No-Carve Halloween Pumpkins

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Mad Art Lab | Giger Geiger Counter

After the release of Prometheus, craftmaker Steve D was so inspired by a tweet by Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait that he went out and constructed his own "Giger Counter" using a half-scale model skeleton.

Mad Art Lab via io9

[Very] Personalized Wedding Cakes

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Edited to add these Bichon groom and wedding cakes:

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Sterling Silver Dog Nose Jewelry

Etsy seller Rock My World will cast a sterling silver pendant or key-chain bob from a silicon mold of your dog's nose.

After you order we send you ... a very simple mold-making kit to take 3 molds of your dogs nose. The mold is only on the nose for seconds. We enclose a self addressed stamped envelope to send it back to us. From that mold we are able to make a casting of the nose in sterling silver. We never scrimp on the silver so they are pretty heavy. Then we engrave a name on the back. Within 2 weeks your nose print is shipped to you on a 17 inch sterling chain.

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Eastern Eggs | Proceeds Aid The Red Cross - Japanese Tsunami Appeal

TBWA London ... has created Eastern Eggs, an online site/ store selling wooden eggs decorated with the Egg-bot by various artists, with a portion of the proceeds going to Red Cross - Japan Tsunami Appeal.

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Monkey Monday | The Loveable Sock Monkey

Authentic Ozark Red Heel Sock Monkeys

The old-fashioned, handcrafted sock monkey dolls made with Original Rockford Red Heel socks from Fox River Mills have become a favorite piece of "Americana" over the years.  Intended and worn even today as work socks, mothers in the early 1900's fashioned these Rockford socks into sock monkeys for their children.  Clever crafters have been making Sock Monkeys and other animal sock dolls ever since ... Today, the instructions for making these dolls are still included in each package of authentic Red Heel Monkey socks.

I've loved sock monkeys since I sewed my first doll when I was a Brownie in the olden days. I have sock monkey slippers, a sock monkey wine cover, a sock monkey key chain, a sock monkey hat, and Bisou has a sock monkey dog toy.

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Thanks, tomB

Alan Wolfson | Miniature Urban Sculptures

Miss America Diner (2000)

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Follies Burlesk (1987)

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Brooklyn Rooftop (2005)

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Brooklyn Rooftop, interior

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Alan Wolfson creates handmade miniature sculptures of urban environments. Complete with complex interior views and lighting effects, a major work can take several months to complete. The pieces are usually not exact representations of existing locations, but rather a combination of details from many different locations along with much of the detail from the artist's imagination.

There is a narrative element to the work. Scenarios are played out through the use of inanimate objects in the scene. There are never people present, only things they have left behind; garbage, graffiti, or a tip on a diner table, all give the work a sense of motion and a storyline.

Alan's miniature environments are included in art collections throughout the US and Europe.

Via Neatorama

Chinar Leaf Carving

Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf's surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving. The most common leaf used ... is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves.

Longal Craft via TDW