As I reached this 200th day of making things, I confess that my heart sank when I read the prompt. Noah Scalin invited me to create something from my own hair, or that of a friend, gathered from a haircut.

Ewwww.

Parenthetically, he offered the alternative of pet hair.

We do have two cats. They don’t leave too much fur about … except in one chair in my husband’s office.

What the heck. I used a lint brush to gather a handful, then pinched and pulled and sculpted a simple word: