Chimp shoe saga...

Here is one of the shoes I have created. It looks beautiful after being covered up in this delicious dark cocoa brown fabric:

Too bad...!

I lost the bid for this very cute laboratory set, 1/6 scale, which would have been perfect for Zira's laboratory.

I love this photograph

$129 at the Container Store

An almost Planet of the Apes garment rack! (Not as purty as the original one, though)...

Whoot!

My obsession

If you haven't noticed, I'm really obsessed with Planet of the Apes. Why this obsession? I don't know and couldn't care less. Planet of the Apes makes me feel good. I can't explain it myself, and I can't explain it to people. Thank God for the internet--I am able to network with other like-minded apes. Their passion fuels my passion. It's a catch 22, and I love it.

My chimp shoes

While I await for Cornelius and friend to contact me for the lifemold to get the Zira appliances going, I am creating my own chimp shoes, which will save me $950 from Apemania. Here is a pair of $2.50 shoes I purchased at 75% off from Walgreens--such a steal!!



I sculpted with Crayola Magic Clay some ape toes on the outside of the shoes. After drying for 24 hours, the clay will be covered with a dark brown denim fabric I recently bought from Joanne's for about $8/yard.

Hieroglyph

Through the generosity of a fellow ape, I recently received one latex cast of a chimp hieroglyph, just perfect for my outfit. It's a lot smaller than I expected, but looks so amazingly beautiful on my outfit. Thank you very much, GoapeBilly for this hieroglyph. I will recreate the halfmoon myself with craft foam covered by the fake leather material I am currently using.

Chimp Inner Sleeve

This is a photograph of a sweater that I have been eyeing to sacrifice for my outfit. I think the weave/color is perfect. It is missing nubs but I may be able to recreate that with a little bit of sandpaper...





Here is a photo that comes up occasionally on Ebay, which has a great colored shot of the inner sleeve:

Forgot to post the Labor Day BBQ!!

Enlarged Medicom Cornelius

Time to paint this guy. My first couple of tries didn't work, but this was the best I got and it's still not good enough:








So...I removed his teeth and really smoothed out the paint on his skin. There's still undertones of the colors underneath, only not so obvious. He looks loads better!





I need to sand down the hill of the front part of his hair and add more fullness to the top sides of his head because he looks like Elvis, and also because his head is pretty narrow at the moment. I think when I'm done he will look great and I will be satisfied with him.

I also realized that there's not that much time left until Halloween! I better get cracking on my UFO outfit. I am thinking I will have to spray my black boots silver...but they're pretty gone anyway. That's what you get when you don't get real leather boots. Fleather does not last beyond two seasons...