Sighting Of the Very Rare Rabbit-Mouse

Have you ever wondered what a mouse with rabbit ears would look like?

Come on! You know that you want to know!

I can help you! 

I have seen - AND photographed - the very rare and hardly ever seen rabbit-mouse!

Wanna see?

But  no laughing!!!

Or you might scare it away!

Or hurt its feelings.

Or my feelings for that matter  ....

So you are wondering how it comes that I get to see such a rare creature???

Really wanna know? 

Sure?!

Well, get ready for some really stupid creativeness ... on my part ...

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So it all started with this  

cute and totally adorable mouse pincushion pattern by Bustle and Sew.

Photo from Bustle and Sew

  

It is CUTE!!!

So yesterday we had such a nice sunshiny afternoon that I thought it would be stupid to spend it inside the flat behind the sewing machine. 

Still I felt kinda like DOING something ... with my hands ... so I thought I might handsew a cute little mouse. 

I even had some scraps from cut up fleece sweaters from the kids lying around ... perfect!

While I cut out the pattern I got this STUPID weird strange tempting idea. 

What if I could make a bunny instead of a mouse?

I just had spent the morning thinking about Easter presents for the kids. That might explain SOME of the weirdness of the idea. Not all. I know. Guess it is just me. 

So instead of following the pattern I started drafting some rabbit ears ... and cutting them out ...

I cut out the fabric pieces and spent a nice relaxing afternoon in the yard handsewing my softie-pincushion-thingy. 

Everything was nice and peaceful. 

Until I added the ears to the mouse rabbit!

That was when I realized changing the ears to rabbit ears will NOT make a rabbit. 

It will make a mouse with rabbit ears! :-/

Yes, I know. You probably would have figured that right from the beginning ...

Well, apparently I did not. 

I was bummed. I did not know what to do. 

I tried to make the face of the mouse rabbit a bit less pointy ... but it still did not look like a rabbit. 

I was thinking about undoing the ears ... making them into mouse ears. 

But somehow I could not do it. Do not know why. 

So instead I finished up the ridiculous looking rabbit.

And that is how it happened that I got to photograph the rare rabbit-mouse. :-)

Well, I guess not all projects turn out well. And it was my own stupid fault. 

To be honest - I feel kinda attached to the rabbit-mouse. 

It kinda looks like it needs an extra-portion of love.

And the funny thing:

Little man - who instantly stole it away -

He LOVES EVERYTHING soft and cuddly! Seriously! He stole a tiny pillow I was making before I could even close the hole from turning!

recognized it as a RABBIT! 

He looked at it and scrunched up his nose and made a sniffing noise. Which is his "word" for rabbit!

Yeah, he is not too talkative yet! ;-)

 Okay, then again he has just passed the stage where every four-legged animal is a dog. 

Now there are cats in his world, too. 

So MAYBE - just maybe - it could be that pretty much EVERYthing with long ears to him is a rabbit. But I chose not to think about that too much ...

So I guess we are just gonna have a rabbit-mouse living with us from now on. 

But the next one will be a mouse! Just a mouse!

So, have you messed up any crafting projects lately? ;-)

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