He starts like a little book, folded up.....
and becomes an accordion book that spells out "HOPE"
...a closer look....
....and the back of them is covered in paper napkins!
The "Hope" is a napkin that I tore and placed a letter on each Santa chest...sort of like a winter scarf....slightly hard to read in the photo because the letters are black. I used paint, rubber stamps, napkins and gold pen to do these, tied together with jute string. I need to make them out of stronger paper than drawing paper because the wear and tear on the "fold" is not going to last long...thus the jute. His shape came from my favorite, tin cookie cutter that I've had forever of a gnome. The holidays are coming....
