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Carina Grasbeck's avatar

Your octopus is adorable! Fun story about the plastic strip. It was invented by the dad of someone I affectionately call my american big sister. She was an AFS exchange student and stayed with my family for a whole year when I was about nine or ten years old.

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Coco Dowley's avatar

Carina, thank you! My curiosity loves hearing about how things came to be invented and this is very exciting to learn about! Can you share any additional information?

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Carina Grasbeck's avatar

Just that he was an engineer I think and that his name was Burke Weisend.

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Coco Dowley's avatar

I send deep thanks to Burke Weisend as the erasers are a great artistic tool for hand-carved stamps! He probably did not imagine this as a possibility or maybe he did :)

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BARBARA HAYS's avatar

This is terrific. Be careful with the knife.

Barbara

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Coco Dowley's avatar

Thank you! I will be :)

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Crystal Reynolds's avatar

Happy accidents... the nose is adorable Coco.

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Coco Dowley's avatar

Thank you, Crystal.

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Jennifer Nichols Art's avatar

So adorable! It's going to be amazing to see this collection grow!

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Coco Dowley's avatar

It will be a design adventure and challenge!

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Nadia Hassan's avatar

Oh my, it could not have turned out better - I love the octopus so much!! Now I want to try this!

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Coco Dowley's avatar

Thanks, Nadia! You should try and I think would love making these.

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