Beware of the Evil Plushies

To spice things up in my shop, I've been working on a series of "evil" plushies. So far, there is the Evil Weibull...

and, from today, the Evil Poisson.

Also in the works is an Evil Cauchy. I just have to sew him shut and have a little photo shoot with him. The faces on these distinguished gents are machine embroidered, instead of hand embroidered like on my other plushies. It goes a lot faster, but I think it really changes the look of them.

Anyone have any suggestions for another distribution? Or a suggestion on what makes a face look evil?

Crinkle Toy for a Nerdy Baby

My daughter enjoys crinkle toys, as I'm sure many babies do. So what would make sense for me to do? Well, make her one of course!

It was quickly decided that I'd make it shaped like a normal distribution. We also decided to use terry cloth for the back and flannel for the front. But how are we going to make it "crinkle"? I first thought of Sun Chip bags. Boy can those babies crinkle!! Jeepers! But being "compostable" I was afraid it wouldn't hold up to drool and washing. So we had to think of something else. I eventually decided to use a thick plastic from a pretzel bag. I know, weird to use trash. But so far it's worked great! It's been chewed on and washed multiple times. I air dry it, and it seems to be holding up really well!

The best part is, she likes it. :)

Thanks to Dr. Leemis

An item recently added to my Etsy shop owes a big thanks to Dr. Lawrence Leemis at The College of William and Mary. The Univariate Distributions Poster is a giant version of the smaller chart he published in one of his papers.


It is one of the most amazing charts I've ever seen. My husband got permission from Dr. Leemis to make this poster and sell it in my store. I hope you love it as much as I do!

Here is a link to the original paper, too.

Statosaurs

Recently, my husband and I have been working on getting some new embroidery designs ready to go. About 1 week ago I drew 5 new ones, and now we are vectorizing and digitizing them. We've completed 2 so far.

They are statistical distributions that have been turned into dinosaurs! I think they are wonderful.

Stegonormalus = Stegosaurus + Normal Distribution:


Chiceratops = Triceratops + Chi-Square Distribution: