February 16 - Simber

On the final day of the book fair, the author of "The Unwanteds" series, Lisa McMann came in to talk to the kids and sign books.  One of the notable characters from the covers of her books is "Simber", a giant winged cheetah made out of sand.

The balloon is Nao Osaka's panther body with wings similar to Larry Moss' Canadian goose.  Since most of my time was spent making Pancake Man, this was made in a bit of a rush -- and the wings were actually built that morning during the pancake breakfast.

There are a lot of things that I would do differently next build ... but I won't go into the problems when they are almost all attributed to the rush job this was.

Simber was later taken to a local book store for an event with Lisa and given away as a prize drawing to two young fans.

This is so much cooler than travelling with Aslan!