This month, the kids are out of school again (thank you, COVID-19, for your systematic attempts at demolishing the public education system). So, I've spent a lot more time than normal yelling at children between the ages of eight and twelve—and then when that's done, I come inside and yell at my own kids as well. Also, my wife has been home recovering from surgery not once, but twice (what are the odds that carpal tunnel syndrome would strike in both her hands?). So I've been making her peanut butter toast and folding laundry and the various other things that I do in my role as her own personal emergency back-up hands. Not a lot of time left in the day to do very important , very silly things like painting toys.
About halfway through November I realized I still hadn't started any Final Fantasy IV projects. Finally, I said to myself, "Well, I'll just cheat and do the TinyToad—it will be super simple, super easy, and then I can pretend I actually did a real project this month!" And even that didn't happen. (I could teach classes on how to be lazy, but it seems like way too much work.) So, quite possibly no update for this month. Not unless I suddenly feel inspired right after Thanksgiving and decide what the world really needs is for me to crank out a TinyToad in a few days!
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Since I worked on the Marion and other puppet master characters from Final Fantasy IV last month, I thought that it would make sense this month to build the wooden dolls they actually control. There are four different types of them in the game: there's the EvilDoll and the Puppet, unliving marionettes who appear during random monster encounters, as well as the Cal and the Brena, two special dolls who appear only once in the game during a rather unusual boss battle. (Since next month is Thanksgiving, should I do my new-and-improved Chocobo figures next? They're kinda of like turkeys, I guess...) |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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