I just got home from two and a half great weeks traveling and making landscape paintings.  After a lot of time outside dutifully enjoying the summer, what I really wanted to do was hang out in an air-conditioned room drinking tea and watching cop shows on Hulu.  I was all ready to do just that, but the air conditioning kept escaping from underneath the door.   So I put on my Domestic Goddess hat, and spent the next day making this draft snake (and drinking tea.)  I quite like him, so right now he is lounging on the couch instead of sealing up the door.

He is made out of a pair of socks that I think were hand-knitted.  Corey brought them back for me when he went to Peru a long time ago.  They were fun to look at, but I didn’t get much wear out of them because they were a bit saggy.  I tried to felt the wool, but I mostly just succeeded in making it pill.  The white fabric is spare painter’s canvas, the red tongue is fabric from an old curtain, and the blue is leftover cotton from making Christmas stockings.  The button eyes were the extras that came in a little envelope with a pair of pants.  He is filled with about 5 pounds of dried black beans.