Holy Guacamole, it's 2015!!

Ladies and gentlemen - I HAVE A HEAD!!!!!!!!

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Well, okay, yes, I have a regular head and have always had a regular head (though how regular or irregular the brain is inside of my head is generally up for debate), but I now have the makings of a BIRD HEAD!!!! AW YEAH! I'M COVERED IN YELLOW FUR!! WHY?!?!

But first things first - Holy crap - it's 2015! <insert obligatory Marty McFly joke here, cause I'm just not that invested>! Heck fire! To kick everything off, here is a picture of the face my dog made the other day because she was very certain that she should get a piece of my pizza:

This dog is a mooch. She also did not get any pizza (that is a lie).

Anyway, I hope everyone had a really great holiday! I'm still on break for a few more days (curse you, January 13th), so I've been attempting to strangle out as much as I can from my remaining few days of freedom. As those of you who have dealt with my incessant spamming have figured out, I've been really trying to get all my new social media stuff in line for everything I do with Bird. About 80% of it is really just to make the whole process more interesting for me, I'll admit; there's only so much you can do with sewing itself, and so the rest of the Bird stuff like the comics on Twitter and the brand new installment of terrible jokes on Instagram (Make a Bad Day Worse) are really just to try and keep myself on a schedule.

And annoy everyone else:

I suspect my plot is working.

Small comfort for anyone who finds themselves unlucky enough to be anywhere near any of my newsfeeds, but in my head I really do have a weird vision of where I want everything to go. Unfortunately, though, I can't really explain myself without giving away ideas that I'd rather not, and by virtue of having to omit a bunch of stuff, I wind up sounding completely insane whenever anyone asks. Thankfully, I'm used to that feeling. I'm a pro.

I mean, clearly. I've already drawn 10 of these bad joke things. How could I not be insane?

Anyway, I hope everyone had a nice New Years! We had a New Years for Shut-Ins, where we ate a lot of food and played a tabletop game called Last Night on Earth, which is essentially about trying to get out of a zombie infested town. We are not pro gamers, so we kind of slogged through it confusedly. And then lost. To Brian. Who was playing all the zombies. Whatever.

I was Sexy Nurse Becky, who could heal everyone except for herself. As you can imagine, I was one of the two who died. Ugh. 

Jumping topic abruptly (who, me?), it's kind of weird doing one of these blogs per week, mainly because I've yet to be this successful at consistent posting ever before in my life (wow, that's sad), and also because I have a tendency not to really recall what happens in the space of a week. Time is kind of strange to me; I forget what day it is regularly, never remember the actual date, and sometimes can't even figure out what month it is without checking my phone or the calendar or the nearest confused looking individual. I actually jotted down notes for this post so I'd remember what the heck I'm supposed to be talking about! Some of them are easy, like first Bird comic of the year and first MaBDW post, since those literally just happened, but otherwise I have a really bad habit of forgetting everything. Eh. Maybe this blog will improve my memory? 

Probably not. Therefore - BIRD!

Hippo sporting a Bird Coat. Yes, his name is Hubert Hobart, but most people just call him Hippo. Like the FBI. They have a dossier.

So far, true to form, I'm not exactly happy with how Bird has been coming along. The material for his beak works really well, but I don't like the way the lines are positioned when I put the finished product over his foam beak. I haven't quite decided if I want to make it over again or not, just that right now it's bothering me. What do you think?

I mean, I know it can never be entirely without lines, because that's not how fabric works, but WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I WANT IT TO BE ENTIRELY WITHOUT LINES.

I don't really care for the material I'm using for the cere either (no photo currently; too annoyed to take one), but so far the true pain in the neck has been - naturally - the fur. The problem is that it's *so* shaggy that it's really difficult to tell what I should cut and how to sew it, and I've already bent a sewing needle on it. However, I managed to get together a rudimentary form for the top of his head based on a crappy pattern I drafted on other, non fur covered fabric, and I suppose it works for now.

If nothing else, it could be revised into a fashionable winter hat. Nothing says quality like blinding yellow.

But anyway, yeah. I also started work on an Iron Man dress, but I think I need to redo the top. It's a bit plain, and that really isn't going to cut it for Iron Man. I'll post a picture next time if I get it to a point I actually like.

Otherwise, that's about all I have for now! I actually feel like I had something else I was going to talk about, but I can't remember. Oh well. This post is long enough as is.

Bye!!