Of Ankles and Frogs.
The many moods of PollyFrog. I finished her today with the coconut buttons for her eyes. The material is from a skirt I picked up at Savers for $3. Whoot whoot cheap fabric! She came out super well, her limbs are nice and dangly and her body is very firm and snuggle-able. I put a bag of plastic pellets in her butt to allow her to sit which she does pretty well, though sometimes you have to thwack her into place. She’s really rather dee-vine darlinks.
The other thing I did today was crack my ankle – again. As a teen I had very weak ankles which would give up on me when walking down steps or slops, leaving me to fall in a heap at least once every couple of weeks. Seems like this is happening again, as two mornings this week I’ve cracked it getting out of bed. Today it actually made a noise when it did it, so that’s new. I know it’s directly related to my weight. The other day when it happened I was mostly alright, except for when I’d been sitting. Then it would give way as I stood up and send pain up my leg. This morning and until lunch time the whole lower leg throbbed. It’s better now I have it braced. I’m waiting for the other one to go now, which it will as it’s been aching for a while. Oh the fun of a collapsing skeleton!
It always starts in the left side, which the physio pointed out is again about an inch lower than my right. Which is a sign I really do need to pull my finger out and get some weight off as I was aligned quite nicely for a while.
It’s a Frog Thing
I yoinked the idea for photographing on scrapbook paper from a flickr person. I am all about idea yoinking. Anyways, that there is the latest frog in my fast growing collection of frogs. I got him at savers for $2 so you can’t beat that! He’s even a money box, so he serves two purposes.
Today I didn’t sew a skirt, although I planned to. Two in one weekend might have been a LITTLE bit overachivey, don’t you think? I did start to sew a frog out of a green/beige skirt I got at (here’s a shock) Savers. I’ve done her legs and.. other legs and tomorrow after work if I have a skerrick of interest in anything left I’ll put her together. Shouldn’t take too long.
I also pretended to turn out my chest of drawers on the basis there’s too much crap in there. Seriously, I pulled out a pair of pants i have NO recollection of at all. I didn’t end up throwing anything away (read: Bagging for op shop) because it was like getting new stuff. One of the bonuses of being a total slob I suspect.
PS: The person I stole the idea from was Dyxie, who does beautiful wonderful things with colour.