A Michael Broad Blog
Note: this post was first published in 2015 hence the 20 years mentioned in the title. Ten years later and the plush toy is almost 30 years old and no doubt still loved just as much. This is the title of the Reddit post which explains the picture at the top of the page: …
Occasionally I like to go off-piste and take a look at something a bit different. This is a handmade cuddly, grey kitten that caught my eye. I was looking for British Shorthair cats on Pinterest. The website threw up this image. My initial impression was that it was real but that idea was soon …
You can tell from the photograph that the Siamese cat is a stuffed plush toy albeit a very good one. We don’t know whether the rooster is also a plush toy.
The organisation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have created a gory Halloween ensemble which they entitle “Cecil’s Revenge”. It is made up of a lion plush toy about one third size and a dentist’s white coat covered in blood. The lion bites the wearer of the coat on the shoulder. The …
Natasha Fadeeva makes beautifully delicate and evocative stuffed animals including cats. I prefer the phrase “plush toy” to “stuffed animal”. Sorry. Natasha knits mohair to make the animal. Mohair comes from the Angora goat. Here are three examples of her work. Here is her website. Natasha takes fine photographs too. They are closely matched …
