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Artisan - handcrafting treasures, trinkets, and toys... enameling, metalwork, fibercraft, sewing, blockprinting, 1:12 scale miniatures, scribal and book arts.
"... time is a dressmaker, specialising in alterations"
- Faith Baldwin
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These are my contribution to the art exchange I'm coordinating. Everyone shares six original pieces and gets six different pieces in return. We had 8 participants including myself, I will be mailing out the envelopes soon!
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Today is practice... today is a chance for folks who feel helpless to do one thing for one day. Will this make a big difference... no. But neither will getting out of the house and walking around the block. At first. But keep going over time, gradually doing more, will create change.
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Also, it will not look *exactly* like this once I actually carve the block and print it... this was just to test the counterchange effect. Figured a second more detailed drawing took less time than carving/printing, to try out the idea
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It is likely that the folks who might want to participate in my Making Art For A Change will also know the quote...
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once our weather becomes less stormy, I will head over to the art store and get some linoleum that is big enough for this print.... most of my block prints are usually about 2cm (¾") square, this will be about 10cm x 15 cm (postcard size)
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it is always a good day for looking very closely at mosses
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The last two years I have coordinated an "Advent of a Better Year" swap; participants send in 31 tiny gifts and get a box of 31 different wrapped gifts, one to open for each day in December. This will be the third year - not going to give up on sharing beauty and whimsy with the world.
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I'm not taking it anywhere until the weather is less fraught. Stay warm and safe my dear friends!!
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Oh gosh, that is awfully sweet! I figure that getting bike to mechanic doesn't need to happen until the weather is a bit less fraught! Stay warm and safe my friends!! I'm currently cooking down onions in butter to combine with homemade broth for soup tonight. Kitchen smells wonderful...
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Thankfully I was completely unharmed, just dreadfully startled, and it was mid-afternoon so I was able to get home while it was still daylight.
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Instead I walked it home, slowly, as the rear wheel is also damaged. I was about two miles from home when this happened. Now I'll need to find someone with a truck or large van to give it and me a ride to the bike mechanic.
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I am already following you, and just did my first ever repost to share your generous offer...
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Oh my! Hope that helps you heal well and thoroughly.
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what I've done is to click the one of two headers at the top of the page... "Following" shows me only what people I have chosen to follow have been posting. "Discover" shows all sorts of random stuff. I never go there.
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I hope whatever germs have grabbed you lose their grip as soon as possible
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I suspect you need a window that gets sunlight... not all windows do. I can't even grow house plants in my windows
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I did a lot of research to choose the best option. Milliput was a bit hard to find, no one in the city carried it. I ended up ordering from a gravestone refurbishment company back east, since I do my best to never order from the Big "A" Behemoth
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I did a fair amount of research before deciding on what to use. It was somewhat challenging to source, since I try and not order from the Big "A" Behemoth, and no one around here carried it. Ended up ordering from a gravestone restoration company back east?!
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I hope she finds the perfect home...
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Condolences...So very sorry...
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Oh no! May you heal quickly and completely!
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Thank you for sharing this spark of good
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Oooo...
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I'd already put crab on the list, but I can make sure they are baby crabs... (not sure how/if babies look different than adults?)
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I will always and forever miss Livejournal, precisely because there was so much actual interchange between humans. I hope to talk back and forth with folks here, hence I'll post small fragments of Acorn Cottage life as "topics", and find out what follows...
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I'm going to do both ideas eventually, just trying to choose which I do first...
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I'm more inclined to the lunar animals book first, and to do more research to choose which invertebrates to include. (I know I want pillbugs, and octopi, and bumblebees...)
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the enamel in the middle of the process, before the multiple layers of powdered glass have all been fused
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Finished size will be 1½" tall, cloisonné heraldic lozenge is 1" tall