Hey Plain Jane

This is by far my favourite little toy at the moment. I call him Space Monkey, but really cannot think why. I made him out of upholstery fabric samples that I salvaged from a certain ill fate at the local dump.

The phrase, I Made This, was of course part of pop culture about a decade or more ago. At the end of The X Files, after all the credits, the production company sound bite was a little girl exclaiming excitedly to the world I MADE THIS!  When I started my own graphics company in late 99, I adopted a company signature line that read “Kash Made Me” (Kash being both my name at the time and a pun on cash, and the need for cash having made me do commercial graphics work). The phrase Kash Made Me would always be hidden somewhere on the graphic, often where only I knew it to be.  But the Kash Made Me idea did not come from The X Files, but rather from centuries ago, from my all time favourite English king, King Alfred, who once had a bunch of special “pens” hand made and sent out to all his Lords. The pens were to be used for the Lords of England to sign a document to pledge their allegiance to him. On each pen was etched the words “Alfred Made Me”. It referred both the actual pen and to the fact that Alfred was making the Lords sign or else. I love all that stuff…..

Anyway, the I Made This post is part of a Meet Me At Mike’s round up of  hand made things. Go see the fun, check out the comments list for all the other I Made It posts.