By popular request, I present to you, Grandma Lucile’s beer can alligator with genuine pearl teeth! Ta Da!
I told you it was amazing.
The whole body is made from a 20 old fashioned beer can tab tops laced together with green felt. Simple, yet genius. Suppose you could make it with the regular can tops you see today, but I don’t think it would come out as well. The feet and head are snipped directly from aluminum beer cans.
And THE TEETH! I wish I had a macro lens on my camera so you could see the teensy weensy stitches she used to sew in these tiny pearls. For someone like me who is hard to impress on the craft front, this little gator blew my mind.
Wait ‘til Christmas and maybe Bird will let me take some photos of Grandma Lucile’s holiday village. There are a dozen different yarn’tastic structures, each more intricate than the next! A courthouse. And ice cream shop. The general store. The windmill. Every house has a music box. One of them plays Edelweiss. I think it’s the post office. Who knew postal workers loved Julie Andrews?
Hip-Hip-Hooray for Grannies!
PS: Did y’all see Michele’s latest Make it Good Challenge? Check it out!
PartyMom
Aaaaaghh! This is just so much fun! Now I’m totally jealous of Bird and her granny…at least I get to ogle at the amazing finds. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Maggi
Very awesome!!! I would hug him and pet him and call him George.
Boot ~C
Thank You~ now I just have to find some old school pull tabs….
Sollfire
I like this and in honor of G’ma Lucile shall make a summer belt from tabs (Fresca for me) and ribbon… all enhanced by my favorite beads of the season. Kudos, Gran; I’m psyched. Thanks for sharing.
Kate
Have you considered renting your granny out? That is one cheeky alligator…love it!
Michele Pacey
That was totally worth the wait, Peaches! How cute is that alligator? And the TEETH!!! Perfect pearls…Brilliant Bird’s Grandma!
btw, thanks for the plug. 🙂
The Polka Dot Closet
Funny, this is sooo much better than the tissue box, of course that was pretty cool too! Peaches you have to get a ruffle foot it opens a whole new world of crafting a sewing!
Carol
Little Treasures
Well, I knew I’d be gaping at the monitor when I see the gator!!
Amazing, I mean … just amazing!
mohdhafifi
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JD
Thank you for sharing!
Amanda
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while, thanks so much for sharing this!