From humble beginnings

I went over to Alana's last night to have a look at some clay moulds. She's made three more; a bullet wound, a vampire bite, and my favourite, lion claw marks. They. Look. AWESOME.

I would have paid more attention to them if she hadn't had a box with a baby monkey in. Seriously. A tiny baby monkey that looked like a cross between an ugly bat and an uglier bear. It was so ugly, it was beautiful.

Getting back on topic now, as I have to stop myself talking about the baby monkey - so cute! So, so cute! - before I get carried away. Alana's put a few of the clay moulds into other moulds with which we will be able to... mould... the latex, which is all very exciting, if a little confusing.

We went out last Friday and made up my arm with the first latex piece Alana made. We had great fun experimenting with different techniques, and then went out to shock the good citizens of Dover. Unfortunatly I nearly crashed my car on the way there (totally not my fault) and sort of forgot that I had what looked like a huge cut across my wrist. People in the pub were giving us some very shocked looks until Alana reminded me that I looked like an extra from a slasher horror.

I can't wait until we have the lion claw marks ready.