Maisie The Mushroom Girl

 Say hello to Maisie, a shy little mushroom girl I found in my garden

Look at that pink little nose of hers!

Do you like her nightgown and fluffy little slippers? It's a little too sunny where she currently is, so she's off to find a dark moist corner of the garden for her nap. See you later Maisie!

Little Cato from Final Space

 If you haven't seen Final Space you absolutely should, it's brilliant.

This is Little Cato, a young Ventraxian.

From his pose you can tell he's having a bro-moment with Gary

I nearly forgot the tail! I always forget the tails.

Look at the squee in those eyes!

Kevin and Dug

 I found a snipe!

And more importantly, my snipe found a Dug! You can't see in this picture, but I used a baby toothbrush to texture Dug's tongue. It was weirdly satisfying!

If you lay Kevin on his back so that Dug is sitting up, it kind of looks like he is riding a Kevin-shaped swan pedal boat!

Also, I spend quite a lot of time watching clay sculpture videos despite the fact that I am rubbish with fimo. I had a little bit of white left from making Kevin's claws so I made a tiny dragon who just wants to play ball with you. He's... far from perfect but still kinda cute. 

Captain Ferret saves the day!

 There once was a very creative and imaginative little boy called George. George told his parents all about this superhero he knew called Captain Ferret. Captain Ferret had a full complement of ferrets that lived in his trousers and together they fought crime.

I feel that Captain Ferret and his 26 ferrety sidekicks need to be better known as they are way superior to the other superheroes, with the possible exception of Squirrel Girl. So I made a book about him. (Although there are only 15 ferrets in the book. The others were shy. Or I was protecting my sanity)

[7am, alarm goes off] bzzz bzzz

Big stretch and now it is time to get out of bed and start another busy day of ferreting and busting crime

Time to get dressed. You can't catch bag snatchers in your jim jams! 

Now where are all those sleepy ferrets hiding?

(By the way the oven is not on, oven-ferret is entirely safe) 

There they are!

So I made these ferrets out of shrinky dink and I ... forgot just how much shrinky dink shrinks! That's why it looks like these tiny ferrets are all feeding at such a massive bowl!

At this point Wilfred decided I wasn't paying him enough attention so we paused the ferret feeding frenzy for a bit.

Those ferrets worked up an appetite chasing the puppy away!

Oh no, someone is in trouble, time to call Captain Ferret!
(I'm really proud of this page by the way)

And this is why all criminals and bad guys fear Captain Ferret and his 26 ferrety sidekicks. Those claws are *sharp*!

At this point in the book-making process I lost my erasable fabric pen to mark the text that I was going to embroider, which is why the writing at the top is... sub optimal. 

Captain Ferret finger puppet, complete with his sword of justice.

Aaand here's Captain Ferret's shield. Which has not really featured in the book until now.