Itchy rats are itchy DDD:
Oct. 28th, 2008 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetRight, hey, updateyness.
1) I have not yet sung for you the ballad of CuteGirl. This is a shame, as today I finally had an actual sort-of conversation with her. Turns out her name is Erica ♥ Or maybe some other spelling, I didn't ask that far. STILL. I made a frieeeeend \o/
2) My rats, they have lice DD: *weep, weep* This is evidenced by the growing bald patch on Conan's rump, which I had heretofore assumed was due to boredom/barbering and thedisturbingly familiar silvery egg casings I've found attached firmly to both his and Doyle's fuzz. I have just put them in a freshly cleaned cage with brand new cloths and a brand new toy and begun spritzing a bird delicer about. Tomorrow I will tackle larger cleaning issues, like their big cage and their previous cloths and hammocks, etc.
2a) In order to distract my precious darlings from their external parasites of doom and woe and possible anemia, I bought them a new toy. It's basically a wire ball that you'd put hay in for rabbits or something and originally had a bell on the bottom, but I took that off (boys're noisy enough as is -_-). Then I put some yogurt-raisins in a tissue, balled it up, crumpled a piece of paper around that, and stuffed the whole thing in the large opening, whereupon I uncrumpled the paper enough to keep it from coming out again easily. Voila, instant rat toy! (Conan was quite frustrated that it was chained in place and he could not drag it away to divest it of its yogurty goodness in a more secluded area.)
3) Anyone have any suggestions for helping cloth keep a bell-shape? I'm planning on making this costume sometime in the near future, and want it to not look horribly crappy. So far I've come up with these options:
* Use a stiff fabric (I'm thinking felt?)
* Use lots of interfacing
* Make my own pseudo-hoop skirt in correct bell shape
* Some combination of the above
Any advice would be very much appreciated and so forth. I'm also taking suggestions re: Do I make it out of dark cloth and paint over it with light or vice-verse?
Edit: Oh yeah.
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1) I have not yet sung for you the ballad of CuteGirl. This is a shame, as today I finally had an actual sort-of conversation with her. Turns out her name is Erica ♥ Or maybe some other spelling, I didn't ask that far. STILL. I made a frieeeeend \o/
2) My rats, they have lice DD: *weep, weep* This is evidenced by the growing bald patch on Conan's rump, which I had heretofore assumed was due to boredom/barbering and the
2a) In order to distract my precious darlings from their external parasites of doom and woe and possible anemia, I bought them a new toy. It's basically a wire ball that you'd put hay in for rabbits or something and originally had a bell on the bottom, but I took that off (boys're noisy enough as is -_-). Then I put some yogurt-raisins in a tissue, balled it up, crumpled a piece of paper around that, and stuffed the whole thing in the large opening, whereupon I uncrumpled the paper enough to keep it from coming out again easily. Voila, instant rat toy! (Conan was quite frustrated that it was chained in place and he could not drag it away to divest it of its yogurty goodness in a more secluded area.)
3) Anyone have any suggestions for helping cloth keep a bell-shape? I'm planning on making this costume sometime in the near future, and want it to not look horribly crappy. So far I've come up with these options:
* Use a stiff fabric (I'm thinking felt?)
* Use lots of interfacing
* Make my own pseudo-hoop skirt in correct bell shape
* Some combination of the above
Any advice would be very much appreciated and so forth. I'm also taking suggestions re: Do I make it out of dark cloth and paint over it with light or vice-verse?
Edit: Oh yeah.
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