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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 29, 2010 9:02:37 GMT
One of my bookmarks is JennieG's bronzewombat.blogspot.com/ & today I had nuffin' better to do (than a newslist that needs to go out inth next few days, or some sewing, or books to read or ...) & clicked onto one of her Blog list bubzrugz.blogspot.com/Scroll down to 19th July for Jazz/n/jumpers - wow! So I found the original site jumpersandjazz.com/, and there was me thinking guerrilla knitting was top of the pops! These pieces are artworks by experts, guerrilla knitting is community art by everyone. Last year my local park was covered in knitting "]http://www.flickr.com/photos/reef_knot/]- the only pic of my favourite piece on a skinny little tree doesn't show it to advantage, so here's mine. When the display was pulled down it was forgotten for weeks, & I kept looking at it cos it was soooo cute. Then someone saw it & removed it. |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 29, 2010 9:18:19 GMT
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Post by ragdall on Aug 8, 2010 11:28:23 GMT
Sandra,
Thank you for giving us all the links.
The tree cozy is very cute! What a creative idea, decorating trees with knitting.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 7, 2011 1:02:01 GMT
www.intocraft.com.au/2011/09/lyrics-in-stitches/An interview with MaricorMaricar The gentle art of embroidery is taken to a funky new level by this talented design duo to produce high end graphics and artwork. If you’re looking for some new ideas for your stitching, consider this exciting new direction. Filled with colour and imagination, the animated, illustrated and embroidered handmade creations of MaricorMaricar are both innovative and inspiring. The twin sisters, Maricor and Maricar Manalo, are from Sydney and describe themselves as ‘graphic designers, illustrators, animators and makers of all things assorted’ who also ‘enjoy getting crafty with embroidery and Fimo’. In their intricate tactile work they have successfully combined traditional arts and crafts such as sketching, watercolour painting and needlework with contemporary graphic design styling. These techniques have been used to produce a range of artwork from silk-embroidered typography, inspired by misheard and mixed up song lyrics, to magazine illustrations, to music video clips produced using dozens of individually embroidered characters, which were then animated. maricormaricar.com/latest-work.htmlmaricormaricar.blogspot.com/
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 7, 2011 1:16:55 GMT
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 7, 2011 1:17:34 GMT
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Post by ragdall on Oct 9, 2011 8:41:55 GMT
More than one! I love doll houses and I loved reading about Miss Vanderfield’s Doll’s House. The Bosdyk Dolls House is fascinating. There are so many rooms, there is so much detail and the restoration project is interesting as well. I'm away from home and don't have the time to read all the descriptions in detail now, but I certainly would like to read through it all after I get back home next week. Thank you for sharing it with us, Sandra! rags |
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Post by jennieg on Oct 10, 2011 11:54:45 GMT
Wow, what a lovely dolls house!
My father made me a dolls house when I was a child and I was given furniture for it the following Christmas. Somehow I also acquired other furniture. When I outgrew it, it stayed in my mother's house for many years......then, without my knowledge (or consent!) she gave it to my brother's daughters who lived in tropical north Queensland so of course it probably ended its days rotten with mould. I didn't have daughters, I have two sons, have no grandchildren and no prospect of any, but I still would like to have my dolls house.
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Post by Joan on Oct 11, 2011 1:33:07 GMT
I too had a dolls house , mine was made of cardboard but it lasted many years, I had front room and kitchen peces made of china , I gave them to one granddaughter for her doll house her uncle put together for her. I have fond memories of playing with it. Joan
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 11, 2011 3:54:10 GMT
what a trauma, Jennie - my grandmother did something similar to her younger daughter. She gave all her carpenter father-in-law's lovely child-size furniture & other wooden toys away because she said her 12-year old daughter was too old for them! Joan, you are very lucky to still have your treasures in the family. I have 3 dollhouses - I started the 1:12 scale one in the glass fronted cupboard in the 70's or 80s & still occasionally add something small to it. One piece is an old childhood piece - a 1940s aluminium chair which is older than me, but i was mine & the smallest of my 3 surviving dolls sits on it. I dressed her in lace scraps too far back to remember when I did. She is in the toy & sewing room, with the doll in red spotted dress. Mattel's Little family dollhouse, conservatory & furniture bought on sale in late 80s when current (post christmas sale?) I bought several complete sets of furniture & dolls & a bag of assorted stuff from broken/vandalised sets. Avon Victorian Miniatures bought month by month from the catalogue when new. I didn't buy the house as I had nowhere to put it - now the sets & houses cost a fortune! [urlhttp://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AVON-DOLL-HOUSE-VICTORIAN-FURNITURE-8-ROOMS-47-PIECES-/300585609984][/url] my.opera.com/sandra%20in%20sydney/about/ check out Dolls photo album for more pics old view of dollhouse when it was less crowded! Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 11, 2011 3:55:16 GMT
Avon Victorian dollhouse miniatures Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 11, 2011 3:56:22 GMT
Mattel's Little Family dollhouse Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Oct 14, 2011 10:12:56 GMT
Sandra, What a delightful collection! There is so much to look at in these doll house photos on your opera site. Jennie, What a shame that your doll house was taken from you. Have you ever inquired about it's fate? Perhaps it's best not knowing? My brother built a 1/12 scale model house in a construction class in high school. Most of the boys burned theirs in the school parking lot after the course ended. My brother brought his home to his little sister. I added wall paper, rugs and furniture and had a great time playing with it. I left it in my dad's basement when I moved to the north. My brother took it away for his daughters to play with and they managed to destroy it. About 35 years ago I built half a dozen houses with a similar layout but much less construction detail. I donated 5 of them to a charity bazaar. The remaining house is up in my attic. Seeing your houses, Sandra, makes me want to go up there an bring it down to, um, rearrange the furnishings.  There are some happy endings. As a 5th birthday present for a neighbour child, who is now 38 and living far away, I made a set of Barbie sized furniture from wood and cloth. Her mother told me a couple of years ago that she still has all the furniture and her little girl is playing with it now. That made me feel very good. rags |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Oct 14, 2011 13:43:14 GMT
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Post by jennieg on Oct 15, 2011 2:03:04 GMT
Rags, I didn't bother to ask. My nieces were also given my toy sewing machine - my father built it into a little cabinet after the clamp holding it onto a table once gave way, and I suffered a cut lip as a result - and when I enquired about that I was told it had probably rotted in the tropical humidity years ago. I suspect the doll house suffered a similar fate. At least I still have my two larger dolls! Here is an interesting site, a quilted yurt www.thequiltquine.com/content/yurts.html -doesn't it look like a fun place? |
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