Janalopes!!

 I am so in love with this Janalope stamp. 

I stamped WAAY more than I needed to, since I only made a litter of 4 creatures this past run.
But let me tell you how satisfying it is to press that stamp onto the cards and pull it away to see THIS!

 

It's really satisfying is what I will tell you.

In honor of the season I made a litter of cats and rabbits and one cat in a rabbit suit.

All modeled after Sonny's original Stanley Cat.

This is Stanley cat in a Rabbit Suit.

  

Obviously.

And this is Stanley Cat in Chesterfield Mint.

(I KNOW!  I couldn't help myself.  Literally when I stuffed him up I was all" Seriously Chesterfield Mint??  Where have you been all my life??)

They all have lower back tattoos, because they are rebellious like that.
Plus COME ON how cute is that?

And they are all at Hip Baby on Johnson Street now if you need to meet them in person.
(there is also a stripey blue Stanley Cat and Rupert Rabbit chilling over there as well.)

Janalope handmade... stamp!

A little peek at my Janalope stamp, that I hand carved for the Critter's hang tags.

You might think that I would share a picture of the hang tag all freshly stamped and not the stamp THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN CARVED.

But that would just be too close to Practical and Professional.  And while I am both of those things (mostly) it's also nearing midnight and I am having a blast prepping up posts (ON A SCHEDULE!  whaaat?) that I can't stop now to set up, stamp and then photograph the finished thing.

Plus Geoff is sleeping and that would just be mean.
(my desk is in the bedroom!)

Janalope

 In the last 6 months I have started working on gifts for friends and family in the form of Stuffies.
At Christmas I made my two littlest nephews these two little weirdos...

This guy was originally designed as a robot, but it didn't quite come out in the stuffing!  So in the end he became a Robot Space Ninja, or quite possibly a Ferret in a jet pack.

And this little guy is Posie.  I designed him to be a version of my nephew Mattie's dog Rosie, who is a Portuguese water dog.  I didn't have any black fabric however so Rosie turned into Posie!

They are stuffed nice and tight and their arms and legs are perfect for little hands to grab, and each one ends up with so much personality that they are all characters on their own.  Each one (so far) comes with a name and a little history.  It's maybe a little much, but it's so fun and they are so cute that I kind of get lost in the process.

These are not the first creatures that I've made.  I made Sonny a cat named Stanley, who is a contstan crib buddy, although he doesn't get as much love as my Mama heart could wish for, but I can't make Sonny be friends with anyone so I am cool with it.

But in making these creatures over the last little while I am discovering that I really enjoy it.
So much so that I made a couple of Bandits that made their way to Hip Baby in town here and both of them were sold to new homes for the holidays!

Janalope is my new exciting adventure with Janamade, a branch of the tree for Littles.
I imagine that it will start slowly (also I only have so much time in the day!) but this is something that I am going to work with over the next year and see how they evolve.

I've got care tags in the works and I hand carved the logo stamp already!

I'll be making another litter for Hip Baby in the next couple of weeks, a Fox, a Hare, an Owl and a Horse I think.

I'm making a little something for another Little friend of ours whose birthday party is coming up too.

A Janalope Shop and link of the website are coming soon!

xox