{"id":2138,"date":"2013-01-05T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2013-01-05T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:41:25","slug":"new-jack-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/new-jack-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jack Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lilly’s brother Michael decided he wanted to motivate his troops with a trophy that can be passed around his team whenever anyone does anything sufficiently awesome. He had the idea of a trophy jackalope<\/a>. Despite this being America we’re talking about, his colleagues were a bit squeamish about the idea of taxidermy, so he asked me if I had any ideas.<\/p>\n

A plush jackalope seemed to be the logical solution, so while I was stateside this winter, I got to work. As accosting a sewing machine is much more my idea of fun than getting sloshed and\/or cold, I spent my New Year’s Eve wrangling with a handsome 1970s Kenmore:<\/p>\n

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\n…Well, you wouldn’t want to be kenless, would you?<\/p>\n

The antlers are the coolest thing about him – I stuffed each branch with pipe cleaner, so they can be bent into any shape and will stay there.<\/p>\n

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He’s hardly perfect – his head is too big, backside too small, and due to my low-rent sewing skillz, he is a bit twisted around, kind of reminiscent of the dramatic squirrel<\/a>. I’m happy with him regardless, as he does actually look like a jackalope, and it always pleases me when the things I create end up looking like they’re meant to!<\/p>\n