Friday, 22 June 2012

Bumbling Belated Father's Day

What are some of your earliest memories of your father? Bedtime stories are an important feature of mine. My dad is a big sci-fi/fantasy geek, and Terry Pratchett was predominant amongst the more age appropriate writings of Roald Dahl and Beatrix Potter when I was growing up.
In recent years my dad has written a few books of his own, in the vein of what is usually termed 'fantasy realism', basically meaning there is not an implausibly proportioned woman in a chainmail bikini on the cover.
His first book 'The Young Demon Keeper' is available as an ebook and for this weekend only, it's free! The story follows the befuddled Paul, a young man who summons a demon to do his bidding, only to be lumbered with the destructive half-wit Scarth, because all the levels of hell want shot of him.
Scarth is a sweet little thing really, if you ignore all the people he eats when he's confused, or angry, or bored... 
He'd really prefer an ice cream, and a nice song on the radio.
In fact he's such a great character I thought he deserved an action figure:


Argh he's naked!


That's better.
(Yes, I know it's a knitted doll, but it's a present for a man so it's an action figure, ok?)

I adapted this pattern to fit the character- this was my first knitted toy and luckily the demon is supposed to look a bit weird so it doesn't matter that his face is wonky and his ears don't match, he's here from the pain pits of hell.

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Bumbling vintage finds No.3

I've been away for a while due to major life upheaval. I'm back now, let's have a laugh.
I found this recently, from 1988:


However great you are suspecting this might be, 
your expectations are not high enough.

Are they raised?

Ok, get this playing to create the appropriate atmosphere.

Ready?


Boom.




This girl is adorable, I'd catually (groan) consider knitting what she models.


This guy knows he's 'it'.


In case you are wondering, it is a 'catastrophe' because there is a bottle of spilt milk on the lower back.

I could easily post a picture of every page of this book, there is no filler, it is absolute lunacy.


Well this has been fun, I'll be back with poems and thoughts soon, ciao kittens.