Pandy seems very OK about having little monsters as pals. does she ever steal them and take them for walks?
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@magpie – I love the way the fleece monster looks with his hair up. LOL! They are all so cute and I love their personalities.
@marionberries – The “ugly” striped monsters are fantastic. I love the horns!!! I also love their eyes and belly buttons! The pumpkin guy is amazing. What was he sculpted out of? And Mothera is very cool!
@Cindy – The Spouted Pea monster is my favorite so far. There is just something about him.
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I started with a small plastic pumpkin party favor, you know the ones you can buy at any party store around halloween…6 or 8 to a package. Then I pulled the handle off and got out my trusty heat gun. I warmed up the little guy’s head and squished it with a book until i got the shape I wanted…less grinning pumpkin and more squinty.There was some whining and complaining and general grumpy muttering, but I don’t think I hurt him much, he was only a head at this point.
If I remember, I covered him with paper mache, probably tissue paper, added paper clay or polymer clay ( I can’t remember), more mache, lots of paint. I especially love the teeth.
The body is a basic pincushion ball shape, with arms. I attached the head through the bottom of the pumpkin using a button and strong thread to a button or maybe a washer at the bottom, pulling tight and squishing his body too. I think I may have put a heavy large washer inside the body at the bottom…or maybe a small bag of sand to help anchor him before I stuffed him. I solve these issues as I go and don’t always remember what I did.
His head is filled with candy corn, so you see, he is really harmless.
I thought this could also work for a snowman or elf or Santa too…maybe less scary, but then monsters are everywhere.
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Oh, the same could totally work for other creatures!
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Pandy is a boy (even though he is pretty enough to be a girl). 
I have five cats and Pandy was the only one showed any interest in the felt stuffies. I rescued this one from him, that’s why I took their picture together. I am keeping them on the only shelf that the cats don’t get on now. Just in case.
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Wow, what an incredible profusion of monsters! So many incredible creations, I have loved this so much.
Here are a few more of my cuddle little terrors to check out, 26 monsters all in a row.
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I’ve been having fun doing the ATC weekend blitz. The first theme was myths, so I ended up making a set of fun ATCs with monsters from (mostly) Greek mythology. And @Bunny1kenobi suggested they might like to be part of the monster jam too!
1/6 myths (this one wasn’t my original idea, I saw a cartoon that made me laugh)
2/6 bubbles
3/6 positive vibes
4/6 monochromatic
5/6 under the sea
6/6 houses
(I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey lately…)
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These monsters are utterly brilliant!!! I have a thing for monsters living their everyday lives (or what they do in the ‘offseason’), so these are quite appealing to me.
Thanks for bringing the JAM, @jemimah!!
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These monsters are soo cool! I love your “silly and fast” style as you call it in the original post. Very cool and a very great addition!
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@marionberries, I was just peeking through past personal swap photos looking for something and see what I came across?
It’s an early scrappy monster, he’s flat and ever so marvelous!
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Oh my, @Magpie I had forgotten about her, They really are sweet. I will have to resurrect the scrappy monsters. I don’t have one of my own. I have lots of monsters from swaps, but all of mine have left home. I feel like a mother whose children have grown up and moved away…wait, I am a mother who’s children have grown up and moved away. Sigh. I couldn’t live with them anymore anyway. 
Nor could they live with me. Raising independent monsters and children has it’s price!
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I have a few more monsters to add to the listing.
I made these guys for Monster Jam 2020 too and they needed to be posted since we only have one day of April Monster Jam 2020 left!
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These little ones are so precious!!! They are very sweet. The later ones are in greys (MY FAV), but these are so happy scrappy, I can see why @Magpie remembers them!!
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I love the variations in little blue mowhawk!!! With BLIMEY LIMEY green!!
The last one has some great colors in the body, too!
Yikes! I will post my last ones tonight!
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Actually the grey ones came first, but since making the fabric (painting it in grey stripes with black embellishments) takes so long, the scrappy ones were a variation. Monsters like chaos and change!
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there is no lie in this
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Okay, here are the last of my completed monsters.
Half cross stitch gargoyle (on my list for years):
4x6 Gargoyle on a Globe (acrylic, pens, tissue, gold stars):
4x6 Gargoyle with Skull (acrylic, pens, tissue, gold stars).
Made for WiccadWitch I’m the 4x6 swap. Which I loved so much, I duplicated one for me!
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Oh, I lied!
Monster pillow made for personal swap with @Kwality570 almost 2 years ago!
This was the best fabric, and I picked up a mauve remenant awhile back. Maybe it’ll be a monster, too!
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