Blackbird has Spoken

I really enjoy being a typical Gemini. The being interested in everything, but only in a shallow way part; not the two-face bit! Being picked for the pub quiz team with enthusiasm feels sooo good, in a way I'm sure being smart in an in-depth way just isn't. You know, sugar high instead of complex flavours, or something. Anyway. One facet of being a typical Gemini has been my enthusiasm for night classes. Cheese making, dress making, Italian cooking, Thai cooking, pottery, French, harp, trampolining, film appreciation, and art appreciation are the ones I still practice if only occasionally, there being so many, many more for which my enthusiasm fell by the way side soon after course completion.
Anyways, autumn to me is the starting-a-new-night-class-or-two season. I just need something new and exciting to try to drag me from my warm fireside and a never-done-that-before night class is usually just the ticket. The pull is still strong, but I can’t join the local ikebana night class this year much as I’d like to, as my wee cherub isn’t a reliable sleeper. (I just love anything zen/Japanese, and it’d give me something to put into all those mis-shapen pottery class vases!).

Instead I’m going to have a go at picking back up with some of those poor discarded hobbies, especially the can-do-at-home with kid in bed/on lap hobbies. With the added motivation of posting on my blog about it to, ahem, try and keep this Gemini on task. We wont mention the projects alreay started, they're in hand and will be posted about soon...

So, the new project is:-

 

 

Ok. Recognise this? I’m pretty sure these are marketed world-wide. For the unfamiliar, they play actually quite relaxing lullaby instrumentals interspersed with bubbly water noises, by the light of a flickering, fading (LED) light. My daughter LOVES it. But it’s a minging nylon and neon looking thing, and so I want to craft-ify it!

The good bit (music and light) is removable and looks like this.

So the challenge I’ve set myself it to craft-ify it into a cute wee home-made looking something-or-other softie/dollie thingy. However, I never did a soft toy class. I did make this 'thing' though, a few years ago for a friend’s baby from a pattern in my mother in laws Woman’s Weekly.

Heh! When they forgot to take it home the third time I took the hint and ignored any further softie making impulses. My daughter has never ever cuddled it (it is made from itchy wool) so I really need to up my game.

I’m giving myself a month, starting…NOW!