handmade urban vinyl mashup toys: idiotcreature_01

For the past few months, I've been buying bits of old toys from car boot sales when I can. The point of all this was so I could create unique toy mashups - cutting off different bits of different toys and recombining them to make new cute stupid creatures.

Anyway I just finished the first one and gave it away for someone's birthday.

unnamed idiotcreature_01


It's made from these two, whom I found for about 20p each in a charity shop near Shadwell.


I cut them to bits with scalpel and painstakingly reassembled them using various glues and putties, then painted it using brush and aerosol. It took about 2 hours work (on and off) to make this one.





I'll try make more soon. I want to do some plush ones too, but need more scraps of material and to learn to sew. I like how when I describe making it, the pronoun goes from "them" to "it" as they get combined.