Tinysaur

For Christmas this year, Dennis and Amy bought me a Tinysaur.

Let’s just pause for a moment and marvel at how fantastic a gift this might be for a girl who loves dinosaurs and runs a craft website/shop called onlyverysmall.

That first picture is deliberately vague on scale. I felt it was important to take in the details before I blew your mind with how tiny Tiny is. Tinysaur came in a package not much larger than a matchbook. In fact, until I figured out what I was looking at, I thought Dennis and Amy had sent me a pack of matches from Prague, and I was confused. And when I realized what it was, I turned giddy. I went straight home to build him.

I didn’t take any in-progress pictures because I was too excited to get him done. I’ll tell you what: If you’re not extremely patient, building this litte guy will make you insane. I am the type of person that can sit for impressive amounts of time doing very tedious tasks. I forget to eat, forego sleep, etc. when I’m engrossed in a project. But by the time I finished Tinysaur, I wanted to poke my eyes out with the tweezers I’d been using. All told, he took about 30 minutes, maybe a bit more, which is really not that long. It may have been my excitement that made this so unbearable; I’m not sure. Regardless, it was worth it.

Finished Tinysaur and tweezer-weapon

You can start to get some scale here. That little card contained all the pieces of the Tinysaur, and the tweezers and toothpick in the background look huge. Relatively, they are. Tinysaur is about 7/8″ high.

He may be tiny, but he can still be vicious. Tinysaur is going to eat this pin.

Om nom nom