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…for getting West this awesome handmade blanket!
And also a big thanks to my old college friend Katie Paluch for making it!
Katie is amazing when it comes to these handmade blankets. (Years ago, Ma Shady also commissioned Katie to make a blanket for Grey.) Here’s just a sample of what Katie can do with a needle and thread.
Lucky to have both such thoughtful family and talented friends,
…for the subscription to Universal Yums!
Our first installment was a box full of snacks from Thailand.
Mmmm! Thailand-y!
A country of collusion is next,
A few months ago, our good friends Erik and Robyn gave Grey and West (but let’s be honest, it’s really for me) an amazing gift.
In 1981, Colorforms released a set of Muppet Shrinky Dinks. I assume everyone reading this is familiar with Shrinky Dinks, but just in case (as I recently ran into three people who had no idea what I was talking about), here is a description from the Muppet Wiki:
Shrinky Dinks are craft kits that consist of several sheets of flexible plastic, printed with coloring-book style line drawings. Young shrinkers cut out the pictures and color them in with colored pencils or markers. When the pictures are baked in an oven, the plastic pieces shrink down to make small, hard plastic curios.
You can learn more about the set I’m about to reference here. It’s the second set listed—the Muppets Play Set—not the Piggy/Kermit set listed at the top.
Anyway, Erik found someone online who was selling the lot of original artwork from the set. Like, the actual drawings and paintings the set was created from.
It’s a massive amount of artwork. Here are a few pics.
These are the actual (I assume) gouache paintings of the character sheets:
Also included were the paintings of the stage set and theater:
The lot even included original art from the packaging, like this “how to” painting.
Some of the artwork came with parchment layovers that had handwritten instructions of how to most accurately match colors and print plates.
Also included was a large mockup of the box.
There is so much cool art in this set (it’s gonna be a bitch to frame), but this is my favorite piece:
Keep in mind this artwork was created when I was just four years old. Insane.
Thanks for the thoughtful and generous gift, Erik and Robyn. Here’s hoping Grey and West like the Muppets!
They better if they know what’s good for them,
…I took my cousin Alex’s senior photos.
In return, I got this:
Thanks to Teri and Alex for the awesome payment.
Totally worth it,
…know that I appreciate both the gift and the joke.
Unfortunately, I have a strong aversion to gummy candy, which means all of these dicks are probably gonna end up in KB’s mouth.
That’s hot,
The Blarg 