Weekend nutcrackery!
First, Tim Holtz has a re-sized reissue of his toy soldiers dies which give strong nutcracker vibes. Link to and image from Sizzix site.
Second, I got to play quite a bit with my nutcracker and am alllllmost finished! I have a few more details and then a big ol’ photoshoot. Get ready for your closeup, Nutcracker!
Third, I made a horrifying discovery about a terrible mistake. I had bought another rabbit nutcracker blank after making my Crack-alope this spring. I have so many plans to make a lady companion for him! I was Polo-ing with a girlfriend who was asking questions about the Snowman nutcracker’s cracking mechanism and thought I could show her more about it with the rabbit, and when I went to grab it off the shelf I realized IT’S NOT A NUTCRACKER!!! It’s just a nutcracker-style rabbit from the same line of blanks at Michael’s! Now wonder they had them leftover in summer. Even though the Michael’s blanks wouldn’t really crack nuts, the fact that this isn’t a nutcracker somehow really matters! I’m going to have to see if I can get past this and still care enough to decorate and jackalope-ify this… statue?.. to actually move forward. Anyway, this is future TheMistressT’s problem. Sigh.