It’s been pretty busy in the land of Kat recently, and the reasons are shitting me no end. The latest of which is having to move house. It wasn’t my decision to have to move, rather it was the decision of my half sane hosemate moving out and leaving me with the fully insane housemate… I didn’t want to do that so I got packing. Sticking around to be domestic slave to an inept misogonyst is not my idea of fun.

I’m now moving into the rather quirky and ancient house of Sean (Bucket’o'Thought ). Think old Australian style terrace house that’s showing its age. They say change is better than a holiday so I’m looking forward to it. (Give me a holiday too please!)

During this drama (and a few others) I’ve been unable to do any drawing and I’m in danger of getting my arse kicked by many people - Villain Store is one of them! I’m hoping that the break will give me super human powers to draw quicker than I usually do.

In the lead up to Christmas keep an eye out for new work, a few additions to the online shop and many, many more rants!

xox

For the really bad days, for the days when you want to quit, when you feel like everything you do is shit, when you feel your self-esteem plummet, when you decide that you would rather wait tables for a living, when you start to think you will never make a living making art, when you are working on something and feel like you hate it more than you’ve ever hated anything in your life, when someone makes an offhand remark about your work and afterwards you feel dejected, when you wish you had gone to school for accounting, when you start to believe that maybe your family was right, when you want to lie in bed for a month and eat chips.

- Keri Smith - The Artists Survival Kit

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This weeks Ffffound Friday.

Geirrod Van Dyke

Muju

Peter Taylor

My Ffffound collection.

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In my previous ‘ Munny Development’ post I showed you all photos of how I dyed it, now here is how to thread hair.

so…

Step one: Get all your equipment together…
I found that a long embroidery needle, a pair of pliers and a thimble were extremely useful. I also suggest that you sit by a heater or in a warm place so the vinyl stays soft.

I used black hair extensions from the discount beauty store for the hair, but you can also order hair on-line from DollyHair.com

I also suggest that you have something to tie the hair up with, like a hair band, and a comb as the hair gets tangled up fairly easily.

Step Two: In order to achieve different hairstyles the hair has to be sewn in with an appropriate pattern, I chose to sew the front section of hair in flat like a parted fringe area and the back will be long and tied back into a braid.

The style I’m trying to achieve is Indian Bride/Princess/Bollywood. (I know, not completely culturally accurate, but it will look good - I promise!

Step Three: Using the thimble to push the needle through the ’skin’ and the pliers to pull it through, thread the hair into the Munny. Once the hair is through, tie a knot in it and pull lightly on the strand of hair so that it secures in place.

As you can see I also had to cut the plastic ‘dint’ out from inside the head so I had enough room to manoeuvre the needle and pliers.

Step Four: Repeat (Thread twice for each hole) so the hair is nice and thick.

For this section and the look I was after, I re-threaded the hair into the head (Just above the ear.) then smoothed it down with a little bit of hairspray. (That I sprayed onto my finger and smoothed over the hair.)

So There you go! Phase one of hair threading, I don’t recommend this if you don’t have much time as it took me 2 hours just to do that small section (and that section is only half finished too.)

Here’s some pictures of the finished product.

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