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SAMMIE -- Mischevious tomboy with pink hair -- Crocheted copper wire basket

SAMMIE -- Mischevious tomboy with pink hair -- Crocheted copper wire basket

Description

Sammie -- the only acceptable form of "Samantha" in her own mind -- is a wild tomboy with a love of extreme sports and raucous parties. She loves to crank up the stereo in her SUV while she off-roads it in places that were never meant to be drive-able. Though her heart is remarkably soft, and while she has an intense love of handcrafting fine art, Sammie doesn't mind the prickly impression that people generally have of her, and is frankly tickled by the scandalous notions that conservative old biddies have regarding her "preferences", and how she lives her life.

Recently, after a particularly injurious "gravity run" on a mountain bike -- despite wearing full body armor at the time -- Sammie found herself with 30 stitches in her arm, and made a post-ER trip to the drug store where she bought some hair dye to spice up the evening. After bleaching her short-cropped hair white, she added red dye, and was startled and delighted when the resulting color was a bright and striking PINK! She laughed for a good long time at her visage in the mirror, then shrugged and decided to just 'go with it.'

Sammie is a stocky but solid 3 inches tall, and measures 5 inches across at her rim. She is constructed of row-upon-row of tight and even stitches, with 24-gauge green wire crocheted together with 32-gauge black wire to make up her body, and her bright pink hair made up of 24-gauge bare copper wire crocheted together with 26-gauge red wire in two rows of single-crochet stitches. Her construction lasted about 6 hours.

Sammie enjoys a good squeeze and likes to wrestle -- she doesn't injure easily and is stronger than she looks! Her texture is lovely to feel, and lovelier to see! She is always a showboat, and would love to show off for your friends while holding your favorite candies, jewelry, potpourri, or other items. She would also make great candle holder for a short pillar candle, tealight, or votive -- light the candle, and watch her intricate shadows dance across your walls!

The colors that decorate Sammie are from the wire's enamel coating, which is permanent, and protects the copper wire from tarnishing, ensuring that she will be bright, shiny, and beautiful for years to come!

Added on Nov 28, 2009