Giant Purple Bug Worm Thing

So here's my 3D model thing. It is meant to be an enlargement (the actual thing being microscopic) of the Happy Bug Larva. My sketches were blue but I liked the purples better when I was looking around in the fabric store so I changed that. When I had sewn the whole thing up it looked like purple sausage links so it was back out to the store to get fabric paints to try to spice it up a little--now it's sort of cute.....oh well. I'm not sure bug larvae should be cute, but as it's meant to be a man-made bug maybe its designers also had art degrees or a weird sense of humor, or something like that. The whole thing took a lot longer than it should have--my sewing machine had a fit and had to be taken apart (I don't think it liked the last move very much) and then it had been a few years since I last sewed anything and I kept forgetting the simple stuff like which dials to adjust and the likes. Then stuffing a narrow tube in segments turned out to be extremely slow going if I didn't want to tear my seams. I did the body shaping by hand sewing/gathering with a fat needle and embroidery thread. I got the lights in ok, and sewed a battery pouch without too much trouble, and I managed not to get the electrical workings wet when I painted. There were originally meant to be model eggs and a fly too--a sort of life-cycle display, but I got sick and that slowed everything down this past week. I did make the eggs and the fly (and some red blood cells to for good measure) out of fimo clay but I fell asleep after I put them in the oven (my evil cold has been sapping my energy all week and I've just wanted to nap-- I never nap--it's weird). They turned black and the house smelled very bad. I got mad and threw them out--I should have taken pictures. But nothing caught fire so that's good, and I decided I'm not allowed to use the oven while under the influence of cold medication anymore......and that is the story of my purple bug larva, which looks pink in these pictures, alas, and is not quite as grand a project as I had hoped . I do like the silly thing though--it'll make a cute toy later.

--The Wombat