Yeah, you read the title correctly and let me tell you it was a moment of divine inspiration that I even came up with this idea, lol.

How did this come to be you ask?  Well, I’m doing a Significant Other Swap on Craftster, basically it’s folks doing a bit of crafty goodness for a special someone in our swap partners life.  I LOVE doing craft swaps generally, alas though this one has been rather difficult because my partner gave me carte blanche in regards to her SO’s wish list, she only told me his likes in colors, sports, music, television, and that he’s a bit of a geek (like me! woohoo) but there is nothing that he currently wants and he pretty much lives in tee shirts.

So I got a button down that I was going to transform into a team shirt for his favorite driver because lets face it one sometimes needs a button down, but his fav drivers colors are turquoise which of course is one of the no no colors :::sigh:::  So I was going to knit him an awesome scarf, but he’s hot blooded so of course that’s a no too.  So he’s got cats and I’m making them some angry bird cat toys with bells but I still wanted to do something else…

Well I do have some stuff left over from the pot holder swap I just finished up, I’ll make him a pot holder!  Ok so cat?  No. The Stig helmet? No. Motley Crue? Eh, how would I do that?  Penguin? Ooh I could do a penguin!

So I started off by goggling penguin oven mitt and wasn’t really impressed with anything there because it wasn’t funny and I really wanted something unique.  So I goggled Motley Crue…  Wow that is some impressive hair!  Wonder what it would look like on a penguin?

Now, I considered giving you a tutorial on how to do this but I don’t want to like, infringe or anything but if you like this I’m pretty sure you can draw an oval with some weird hair and check out one of the zillion tutorials online for the base.  I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is…..

THE ORIGINAL (cause I’m not making another and no they are NOT for sale, it was a gift for a craft swap, lol)

PENGUIN NIKKI SIXX  MUG RUG/POT HOLDER