This summer Britain has been festooned with bunting. The Union Jack variety. First because of the Queens jubilee and then the Olympics. Last week I went to look at an exhibition by artist Andrew Miller at Baltic 39 in Newcastle. One room was strung with row after row of bunting presumably questioning the country’s celebratory mood. You can find out more here. I thought it beautiful.
All the while I have had in my head;
Bye Baby Bunting
Daddy’s gone a hunting
Gone to fetch a rabbit skin
To wrap poor Baby Bunting in.
In this case “bunting” means chubby, so here is a roly-poly baby elf. And he is Number 25 in the 29 Faces challenge.
Ziggy Shortcrust 
I always thought that nursery rhyme quite horrible. And now I happily slosh rabbit-skin glue all over stuff in my studio. Great baby elf.
I think using an animal and not wasting a single bit of it is how it probably should be. It’s just that bunnies look so cute, but they taste good 😉
Yes – nose to tail as my charcutier pal says….
Adorable! Love her!
I don’t often do cute, but with those big eyes….ahh.
The eyes have it. Gorgeous! Absolutely beautiful – he must be real. I know he’s real and not imaginary.
I’m addicted to bunting. I don’t own any yet but it makes me happy to see it. I have a plan to succumb to all the DIY bunting tutorials to be found all over the American Internet at some point and then do what has been done above. You know what happens when you do that at home though. No one goes around regularly checking if the spiders have made friends with your bunting…hmm…
Wow…children are hard to draw. That is one very nice drawing!
Beautiful eyes and mouth….! Great expression overall.
Thank you 🙂
I am at last catching up with blogs and this is a great place to start 😀
This little elf baby looks to be wiser than its years…
Ah, funny you should say that. Elves age far slower than humans. This “baby” is probably about 6 or 7 years 😉