PaleoGirl Crafts

I have donated two plush to Princeton University’s event...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:17:04 -0600

I have donated two plush to Princeton University’s event ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’. Fittingly it is the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur that have their epic battle in the book. My name (PaleoGirl Crafts) is even on the bottom of the poster in the tiny font!

This should be a great event so anyone in the area should check it out!

ilovesciencestyle: Stained glass triolobite window panel by...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:11:33 -0700

ilovesciencestyle:

Stained glass triolobite window panel by trilobiteglassworks

Check out a friend of mine’s beautifully nerdy stained glass work!!

Made myself a nerdy infinity scarf. I made some stencils and...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:29:38 -0700

Made myself a nerdy infinity scarf. I made some stencils and hand painted each individual fossil onto the fabric. There are two different versions of gastropods, 2 different kinds of brachiopods and an archimedes bryozoan :D A bit of a stretch to find them all in one fossil bed, but it was just one of those ideas I got in my head that wouldn’t go away until I made it.

Lystrosaurus plush! After the Xmas rush I was finally able to...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:03:40 -0700

Lystrosaurus plush! After the Xmas rush I was finally able to take a little breather from custom orders and make something that I’ve wanted to make for a little while now. I remember being in my Evolution of the Earth class once upon a time and learning about Lystrosaurus fossil distribution helping confirm the existence of Pangea. I also love when the Lystrosaurus knocks into the camera in the BBC’s Walking with Monsters. I’m a sucker for a clumsy mammal-like reptile.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/120240074/extinct-lystrosaurus-plush-in-tie-dye

Just thought I would show off some great Anomalocaris patches my...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:12:26 -0700

Just thought I would show off some great Anomalocaris patches my friend across the pond makes (and I am now the proud owner of two!)! Aren’t they adorable?? They come in the two different colors shown. If you desire some of these patches of your own check out her site http://www.shrimptees.bigcartel.com/category/woven-patches

A feathery Velociraptor plush request I made. Had difficulty...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:00:50 -0700

A feathery Velociraptor plush request I made. Had difficulty figuring out the feathers, but it turned out ok. This plush is a bit bigger than my usual plush and you can see (thanks to my super awesome photography skills) that there are 5 empty spools of thread holding up its tail. Another scary turned to cuddly :D

A Pachycephalosaurus plush request. I’m happy with how it...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:02:00 -0700

A Pachycephalosaurus plush request. I’m happy with how it turned out! Its domey head took a lot more math and time then I had originally anticipated. Oooh geometry.

Amargasaurus! My sewing room is ‘decorated’ with a...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:23:51 -0600

Amargasaurus! My sewing room is ‘decorated’ with a bunch of nerdy paleontology type posters; one of them being a National Geographic pull out poster from a while ago. It features my favorite Sauropod…Amargasaurus. I think the image has been seeping into my subconscious and I finally decided it needed to be created in plush form. I love its spines and creepy teeth. I put wire in its legs so it can actually stand on its own without any issues. It ended up being just over 2 feet long from nose to tip of tail. I’m a happy camper with it! https://www.etsy.com/listing/112570220/extinct-amargasaurus-fossil-plush-in

Steampunk Anomalocaris! What a dapper gentleman he is. This was...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:16:28 -0600

Steampunk Anomalocaris! What a dapper gentleman he is. This was a special request from an Etsy customer for a gift. Had to special order the fabric online as apparently fabric stores aren’t cool enough to carry old world map prints. The leftover fabric has already been assigned to projects so I think I’m going to retire this specific version of Anomalocaris (meaning please please no one message me 3 days before Xmas begging for me to make one for their most favorite person in the world). Unless someone offers to pay off my student loans for me. I might make an exception in that case ;)

These 3 plush are my submissions for the annual Plush You! plush...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:24:36 -0600

These 3 plush are my submissions for the annual Plush You! plush show in Seattle next month. Ammonite, Dia de Muertos Trilobite and Opabinia are on their way to a wetter climate!

"Hey Paleogirl, I just thought that you might like to know a cute little story about the Walliserops..."

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:13:47 -0600

“

Hey Paleogirl,
I just thought that you might like to know a cute little story about the Walliserops you sent me.

Yesterday my distressed 4year old neighbour announced she had nothing for her show and tell, so we grabbed Wally went on wikipedia, got some show and tell cards about Trilobites and off she went.

Turns out her talk when great all the other kids just brought teddies, so Wally was a star hit. Her teacher was seriously impressed and sees a little palaeontologist in the making.

Anyway I’m planning to order up another trilobite around Christmas so she can have one of her own.

Thank you for your awesome inspiring plushies.
x
lilcoocumba

”

- Loved this story from an Etsy customer of mine

Baby girl’s first Trilobite! Customer appreciation photo...

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:25:06 -0600

Baby girl’s first Trilobite! Customer appreciation photo :) Now here’s a baby that’s getting a good start on life. Thanks to her mum for sending me the photo!

A week or so ago my husband and I took a vacation. As normal...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:13:33 -0600

A week or so ago my husband and I took a vacation. As normal people choose to do, we thought the best use of our time would be driving aimlessly for days on end so we could enjoy the stiff leather seats of our car. Ok, so it wasn’t so much of an ‘aimless’ drive as it was purposeful. We were storm chasing! Of course that did mean we spent almost the entire vacation in the car, but I managed to sew up some keychains during our trip! A couple of the Ammonite keychains actually got to see the short lived tornado that was produced by the supercell that I’m standing in front of in the photo (photo was taken before the tornado produced). That cell also produced 5 inch hail which we safely avoided :) We went from Wyoming to Nebraska and down to Oklahoma and back. Overall a successful trip!

These 3 Eocene plushes I made are going to be used as...

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:32:04 -0600

These 3 Eocene plushes I made are going to be used as educational pieces for the JOIDES Resolution drilling research vessel as they drill for Eocene (~50 million year old) sediments in the Atlantic through June and July. They will be featured in videos and ship to shore video chats with schools in New Zealand and Australia and even to Bryce Canyon National Park. They’re going to have a contest on their FB page to give them names hehe

Here is the link to their webpage for anyone that’s curious! http://joidesresolution.org/

Opabinia. A little bit of the process on making an Opabinia...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:41:32 -0600

Opabinia. A little bit of the process on making an Opabinia plush. Opabinia are found in the fantabulous Burgess Shale! This one was a custom color request from an Etsy customer. I love when requests come with fun color combos.

Parasaurolophus plush. I was asked to make a Parasaurolophus...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:43:25 -0600

Parasaurolophus plush. I was asked to make a Parasaurolophus plush based on a young boy(future paleontologist)’s favorite dinosaur model. I am a big fan of Parasaurolophus and the person requesting is incredibly kind, so of course I was more than willing to give it a try. It turned out pretty cute! A little more as though the dino model had gone on a diet…and its legs could no longer support itself, but it is still more than willing to be a bed time snuggle pal. Dinosaurs don’t need to stand all the time anyways. It’s just showing off really ;)

Ammonite keychains. A little peek (a peek just because I was too...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:10:47 -0600

Ammonite keychains. A little peek (a peek just because I was too lazy to document more of the process) of the creation of my new Ammonite keychains. I hope to carry these as constant items in my Etsy shop like the Eurypterid keychains. All of these have sold already, but hopefully I’ll have a chance to make more soon!

Treveropyge Trilobite keychain. This was a request I was working...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:44:54 -0700

Treveropyge Trilobite keychain. This was a request I was working on for an Etsy customer. Treveropyge Trilobites are known for their very large convex eyes. This is the first time I’ve used wire and beads on a plush, but I think it conveys the general compoundy-ness I was going for. :) And they look angry. Not quite the usual ‘adorable’ end result for me, but maybe that’s because I went a little bit more realistic (probably not color-wise, though hehe).

Here are the plush versions I made of creatures found in the...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:54:00 -0700

Burgess Shale illustration

Here are the plush versions I made of creatures found in the Burgess Shale. The first image is one of the many illustrations that exist that depicts a still shot of what the Burgess Shale looked like during the Cambrian explosion 530 million years ago (if all the creatures stopped to pose together for a family photo during their yearly picnic). I haven’t made all of the Burgess Shale critters yet, but maybe some day! And actually now that I look at it a couple of the ones I have made aren’t featured in the family photo. Oops.

The inspiration and the resulting plush (keychain). This was my...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:23:50 -0700

The inspiration and the resulting plush (keychain). This was my first introduction to the weird and wonderful Walliserops Trilobite. I have since made them into full size plushes and even scarves.