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<\/p>\nThe other night, as I was drifting off, I was struck with inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 See, I’d just earlier that evening knocked the box of pins off my desk again and spent some time digging around the carpet with a flashlight hoping to find them all then and not later with my foot.\u00c2\u00a0 I know, a pincushion from the fabric store is darned cheap, but that’s not what I wanted.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted something that was all me.<\/p>\n
At first I thought I’d make a plush skull to put pins in, but then I thought “no wait, a skull base with a brain pincushion!\u00c2\u00a0 Perfection!”<\/p>\n
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While at a halloween store, I spied this little plastic skull, and only a buck fifty with tax.\u00c2\u00a0 Brought him home, cut the top of his head off and sanded the edges down so that they wouldn’t be sharp.<\/p>\n
Then I plugged some holes in the bottom with hot melt glue and filled him with sand.\u00c2\u00a0 I topped the sand with a layer of glue so that I could work with the whole thing without worrying about spilling sand in the carpet.\u00c2\u00a0 (Did I ever mention that I’m a complete klutz?)<\/p>\n
Next I took a piece of pink terry cloth (I know brains are actually grey, but I like pink brains) and a scrap of another fabric and made a small pillow stuffed with a little fluff.\u00c2\u00a0 I sewed crazy lines all over it and then attached the quilted fabric piece to one of those tomato pincushions.\u00c2\u00a0 I may not be thrilled with the looks of them, but I do like the nice heavy consistency.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I stuffed this down in the top of the skull.<\/p>\n
Voila!<\/p>\n
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This was a quick project – maybe 2 hours start to finish and that was because I was figuring it out at I went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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