Twenty Eight Giraffes Plus One

I thought I was finished with the 28 giraffes project, but my sister, Meredith, gave me a newspaper picture of a giraffe and it was so appealing that there just had to be one more.

This is "Plus One".

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Eight

Number 28 is taking a bow to mark the end of this project. It's been fun, but I'm ready to get on with something that brings in money!

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Seven

We have been helping our friend, Stan, with his project at the Safari house. He is creating animal print cabinets by carving leopard spots, giraffe spots and zebra stripes out of various exotic woods. We spent yesterday sanding giraffe spots and, at the end of the day, I made a giraffe out of some of the spots and took this picture.

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Six

I'm down to the home stretch!

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Five

There's nothing left of this giraffe but the spots.

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Four

Leslie sent me the picture that I drew this from. This is Bea the giraffe and Wilma the Ostrich and they live in Busch Gardens Tampa. It's an unlikely friendship, but fun to watch..........

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeDOKVbAb6Q

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Three

My brother Jay suggested that I combine a giraffe and a brontosaurus. Here's Giraffeosaurus.

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty Two

There is a running joke on onemilliongiraffes.com about pigs trying to get into the project. www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=6696 www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=26025
This is my contribution to the joke.

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty One

Here's another of Leslie's ideas.

28 Giraffes, Day Twenty

My sister, Leslie, e-mailed me some giraffe ideas that I have been trying to work up. I'm not sure I did it justice, but here's the first one.

28 Giraffes, Day Nineteen

A zebra and a leopard mated to create this giraffe.

28 Giraffes, Day Eighteen

I sent in a funny one for today.

28 Giraffes, Day Seventeen

Here's the Hump Day giraffe.

28 Giraffes, Day Sixteen

Giraffe Sixteen is having a lovely meal of Acacia leaves.

28 Giraffes, Day Fifteen

It's Blue Monday, so here's a pensive giraffe.

28 Giraffes, Day Fourteen

I know this is corny but it is Valentine's day, after all. Does this take "necking" to a whole new level?

28 Giraffes, Day Thirteen

Here's lucky thirteen.

28 Giraffes, Day Twelve

I had a not-so-great day and got home very late. Sketched this giraffe in about 10 minutes so I could get it in.

28 Giraffes, Day Eleven

Even though I got REJECTED yesterday, I'll continue with my pledge. Here's Eleven.

28 Giraffes, Day Ten

This is a giraffe shoe that I made for a friend's Christmas present last year. I took a wooden shoe last and had Tony drill holes in the heel so that we could attach legs made out of crochet needles and then I painted it in a giraffe skin pattern in metallic gold and bronze. I submitted this to onemilliongiraffes but they rejected it on the grounds that they thought it was store-bought and not handmade. I don't know whether to feel insulted that they thought I would cheat or flattered that my little shoe looked so good that they thought it was store-bought.