 We got socks, googly eyes, felt, an adorable puppy. Let's turn this nubbin into a sock puppet. Hello there, my beautiful, lovely internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you for the kisses, Sully. So last week I bought googly eyes for my little nubbin socks here and we turned Mr. McNubbins into a fully developed character but I feel like he needs a few more costumes and I have not done crafty things in years. I got these pieces of felt for like $5 off Amazon, even more googly eyes and we're gonna create Mr. McNubbins a whole new character. Also, hi and welcome to the new subscribers. I very unexpectedly had a few short videos here on YouTube that have done outstandingly well and our community has grown exponentially and it's so lovely to see new faces and old faces here. Let's get to crafting. Outstanding, all right. Start with googly eye placement. I feel like that is the foundation of Mr. McNubbins new character. I got super glue in retrospect. This is probably overkill. I probably just needed like fabric glue but I am not gonna have my nubbin puppet falling apart. I feel like the eyeball placement is of paramount importance. Let's say right there. All right, let's get these cemented in place. So as these videos have unexpectedly gone out to millions of people, I've gotten a lot of questions about my little nubbin here so I thought as we craft, I would answer a few questions. By far the most asked question is why is it so gosh darn wiggly? And when I see this played back on camera, I'm like, wow, that is one floppy leg. So here's the situation. When you have a leg amputation, they basically take your calf muscle, leave it a little longer than where they cut the bones and then they fold it back up over because the end of your leg needs padding. So my bones end like right there, right? Well, we got a lot of movement underneath there and that's muscle and tissue so that when you are using a prosthetic leg to walk, you have some padding here. Trust me, it is very, very important because without that, you get real uncomfortable. Got two little eyeballs. So I did some sock puppet research and I think we're just gonna wing it with character creation. I think step one is a cute little pink tongue. Oh, my dog's doing these. Oh no, chaos is going to ensue. Guys, these mommy's working. They have no respect. None. I used to be crafty back in the day. Let's see if those skills stood the test of time. I'm not upset. So not gonna lie, it's been very therapeutic to turn my little nubbin here into some kind of character that brings people joy. I've really talked about this a lot in videos but seeing my leg uncovered is still something that makes me deeply uncomfortable. So to create this personality around it, I think is actually delightful. There, no, probably there. Yeah, like at the bottom. Is it safe to super glue this to me? How's that tongue placement? Another thing people were super curious about is is there any benefit to having this little chunk of my leg left over? Like why didn't they just go through the knee or above the knee? And this is a question that is actually super important. Because I have this much of my leg left, it actually allows for my prosthetic to attach to me because the socket goes around there, I still have my knee movement and I've been able to learn how to walk again that way. I have some friends who have a lot less leg because of the circumstances of whatever caused their amputation where they might only have a few inches and it does make prosthetic fitting a little bit more difficult. So I'm really grateful I have like six inches below my leg. But there are all kinds of amputations. Sometimes they do go through your knees. Sometimes you have to have an above the knee amputation but if at all possible, it's really important that you keep all the human joints that you can. All right, let's see if that stays. What kind of nose does he need? Red, yes. We need a red little like triangle or heart. That's what we'll do. Try and be a little stingy with this because when I ordered this off Amazon these looked like full-size pieces. Yes, I should have checked the measurements but I didn't. Does that look good? I don't feel like that's enough nose. You know, it's my sock puppet. I'm just gonna say it's enough. Do, do, do, do. Next, I think, I think we need some ears. So I was just scrolling through the comments looking for other questions to answer. I do not like amputee people for one reason. I'm a person who has never broken a bone or lost a limb. I don't know how to go through life without it. I genuinely don't like them because they're too strong. Amputes arise. I mean, he's not wrong. We are pretty, pretty strong. We want to match the color. No, I think we want to go a little darker. One of my favorite things that has happened in the last week is I had someone reach out to me who runs like a kid show and asked if they could interview my nubbin as if he was a separate being, which to be fair, he is sentient. He absolutely is a separate being. But I was like, heck yes, absolutely. What a fantastic, lovely thing to be able to do. You know, a few years ago, did I think that I would be giving interviews with a nubbin sock puppet? No, but life does take unexpected turns. I want like rounded ears like that, you know? We are winging it here, guys. Fun story, I actually have a 103 degree fever right now. It's not COVID. Ooh, if I could make it stand up like that, that'd be good. So I think I'm making sense as I'm recording this, but I'm also not sure. Oh, he could be a puppy dog with like floppy ears. That would be easier to do. That is what we're going to do. What do we think? I think it's good. I think this is working. The ears are too small, but maybe that will add to the charm. I feel the superglue sticking to my skin underneath. That is not a good sign. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Stay on, little puppy dog ears. No. So the original reason I was talking about having a nubbin warmer that eventually turned into a sock puppet was, I don't know if I've talked about this before, this gets so cold. There will be nights where I can't sleep because I feel it's just ice cold, right? I think part of that is due to circulation issues. You know, when they remove a part of your body, especially on your lower limb, you can run into some issues with that. But I realized all I needed to do was just flip a sock upside down. This becomes the part for the knee and it actually kind of fits perfectly. So on cold nights here in Colorado, I'll put a sock on and then a little nubbin warmer. The moment of truth. Will he stay together? Oh, ouch. Don't, oh, ow, oh my God. The superglue like glued to the little hairs of the bum on my leg to rip off the bandaid. Okay. Yeah. Oh my God. All right, here's what we're working with and I kind of love it. Well, hi, Sadie. You wanna come join us? This is my beautiful girl, Sadie. She is just about 10. I've had her since she was seven months old and she is an old- Oh. Oh. She's an old- Oh. She's an old curmudgeon is what I was trying to say. Completely harmless, but she growls and whines her way through every single day, don't you? Life is hard. I know. Let's see the finished product. I really feel like I need to learn ventriloquistism. I need to learn how to be a ventriloquist now that I've acquired a brand new career. If I made nubbin sock puppets, would anyone buy them? That's a very niche market. And with that, my dear friends, I'm gonna make myself some more tea with lemon and a lot of honey and hopefully get this fever down. I probably shouldn't be drinking tea if I have a fever. Tea makes my throat feel better and is comforting. I'm gonna do some Googling on this. So with this being our official first attempt, I would love to hear what kind of characters we would like to create next on the comment section down below. I'm sure there's like sock puppet TikTok or sock puppet YouTube that I could probably learn a lot from and get some character inspiration and maybe upgrade from Loctite Super Glue for our next crafting project here. Thank you so much for hanging out with me this evening. With this being said, I love you guys. I'm so grateful for you. You could be anywhere else in the world doing anything else. And you chose to hang out with me in a silly video for a little while. And I really appreciate that. A big thank you to my patrons. You will see their names at the very end of this video. I'm gonna play a couple of the shorts that I've been referring to. If you haven't checked them out yet, I've been having so much fun creating just like shorter little bits of content. I've been loving it. Check these out. Let me know what you think and what we should name Mr. Sock Puppet. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you. And I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys. If any of you might not know about us amputees, they're little nubbins can get really cold. Sometimes this is due to circulation issues. Other times it's phantom sensations like my foot is in a bucket of ice water but my foot doesn't exist anymore. So let me show you my favorite amputee hack that I came up with. Here we have a pair of socks but only one foot so this one is useless, right? Or is it? All you gotta do is rotate that sock so that the heel part is on top and you suddenly have the perfect nubbin warmer. You wanted googly eyes? You got googly eyes. So I ordered small to medium. I just ordered googly eyes and this is what I got. These are massive. All right. What about eye positioning? Are we thinking kind of like a snake there? Um, I'm gonna say about there. Okay, I kind of love this. Good morning. It's like he's a whole character. He needs a name. She needs a name. Bye. Have her from the sky.