The Frumplingtons

Shana’s busy doing crafts again. I’m not exactly sure what she’s making at the moment, but I do know it’s some kind of humanoid figure.

Shana always likes to surprise me with a finished item rather than showing me all the various different stages of the creative process. As a result, I don’t often get to see the ‘innards’ of these things. Today, however, is different. Here we can see, even though the photo is a bit grainy, a ‘hidden camera’ shot of Shana’s latest project. It seems, as far as I can tell, to be made of what Shana (and lots of other keen crafters, come to that) likes to call ‘chenille stems’. Frankly, they look more like pipe cleaners to me. Of course, as Shana doesn’t smoke a pipe any more, I suppose they can’t be pipe cleaners; so, ‘chenille stems’ it is, then (even if the name does sound a bit lah-de-dah).

I’m more intrigued by the fact that this chenille stem person appears to be wrapped in bandages. Can it be that Shana is making one of those ancient Egyptian mummies? Time will tell, I guess. But at the moment, it all looks more like a pipe cleaner version of “Alien Autopsy” than anything else. I wonder what planet it’s meant to be from?