A Mystical Forest Fork

Well since Heidi and I set the challenge on an Altered Arts Forum of altering a piece of cutlery, I thought I had better get mine done even though I have a hundred an one other things that I should be doing! But then I did need to double check a couple of clay techniques for YCJ and make sure my toaster oven is the correct temperature to cure the clay... (well that's the best excuse I can come up with right now!)

Anyway, here is my altered fork, not that you
can really see that it was a fork unless you look carefully! I had a little play with the forks I bought from a car boot sale and a pair of pliers as soon as I bought them, as they were very cheap and nasty forks they bent really easily, which was helpful to me, but I doubt they would have been much good with a nice rare steak! The fork tines were twisted, and the handle was bent at a rectangle, so it sits all of it's own accord. My first thought was to use the bent tines as 'hair' but as it was my first thought I guessed it was too obvious, so then it looked to me like a tree... hence my version of the 'whomping willow'

One top tip though which you may find useful.... when trying to undo the top of some 'superglue' with ones teeth because you are precariously holding the other bits, just check there is a top on the superglue which needs to be removed, if you don't you get superglue all over your tongue.

Just telling you that apropos of nothing...................

(P.S.. just out of interest is superglue poisonous??)