Olympic Monkey

So in honour of the Olympics I am going to make my grand olympic monkey out of some football socks I bought in Nike Town. There's a mini Making Things night in the local Reggae pub across the road and I for one plan to make a monkey. I am making some matching badges for my socks. Here are some rough ideas.

Sock Monkey Night

Some badge ideas for The Making Things Club Sock Monster Workshop this Wednesday at Art in Industry, 6pm onwards, at SHUNT in the London Bridge catacombs. If you come along you can make a sock monster with us. I'll even give you a badge.

Meet The First of Many

Poliphilus Hemskerck has problems; issues; life concerns. He always has them. He wears them like a warm rat on his shoulder casually sniffing his ears. He is sure the excess worry will be his downfall just as sure as he is sure of his ineluctable downfall. With so little control over the inevitable Poliphilus Hemskerck spends a great deal of his time shrugging his shoulders and imagining doom. He also likes to take amateur french classes and dance the tango like he is full of amour and vigour.

Poliphilus worries about his ears. They are rather pointy. A problem with angles so his creator tells him.

Badges

So I've been having more fun with the badge maker. Now I plan to make the owners of these fine badges. You must ask yourself. Who would wear this kind of badge? Creature number 1 is in production.

Badge Badger

After playing with my friends industrial badgemaker I was hooked. The end of the month made me impetuous and before I knew it, my very own machine was winging its way from Germany. Do I need one? Not really. Do I want one? Yes siree I do. Now every creature will have it's very own badge and I might even do some sets for the stall. I feel the urge to make a sock monster in celebration. I have some very sparkly socks from Top Shop which will do just the job.

I Made Badges

I made badges. In a real proper badge machine. It was ace. I MUST have one. I MUST. I will spend all my day making badges which serve no purpose whatsoever. I have already lost one which said 'cake' on it. This is very sad. The 'Sister' one is ace. It's taken from the Argos Catalogue jewelry page. Steve and Caroline made this one but I made them give it to me as I loved it so much. I am going to get myself an Argos Catalogue, a badge machine and lock myself in a dark room only to emerge bedecked in badges. Alternatively I might deck out my sock monkeys in them. Yes. This is a plan.