tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32510226997096582692024-03-13T23:16:45.631-07:00Happy HolidaysI build three dimensional Illustrations for my unwritten stories.Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-14150718715423139282019-03-17T09:22:00.000-07:002019-03-17T09:22:23.400-07:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here are a few images from books in my Saint Patrick's Day collection to get you in the mood.</div>
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This is a page from the "Children's Party Book" published in 1935 for a Saint Patrick's Day party.</div>
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Dennison produced booklets to promote their products. This page for Saint Patrick's Day appears in the promotional booklet "Dennison Crepe Paper Almanac 1913". The booklet doesn't give instructions on how to make the decorations, it is strictly for promotional purposes.</div>
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And finally, here is a recipe for "Soda Bread" that I got from a woman in Ireland when I was there many years ago. Bake up a batch, have a cup of tea, and enjoy yourself.</div>
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4 cups wholewheat flour</div>
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2 cups white flour (I use 6 cups of wholewheat flour)</div>
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda (Break up the soda in your hand to get rid of any lumps.)</div>
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1 teaspoon salt</div>
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Mix the dry ingredient with a balloon whisk in a large bowl.</div>
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Add enough buttermilk or sour milk (I use buttermilk but I've also used yogurt, apple juice or any tart fruit juice) so that the mixture is not too dry or too wet. Don't knead the dough just form it into a ball. You can either make one large loaf or cut it in half and make two smaller loaves. Form them into balls and coat with flour. Place on a baking sheet and press the dough into a flat disk about 2 1/2" thick. Cut the surface with three or four intersecting cuts. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour or until the loaf sounds hollow when rapped with your knuckle on the bottom of the loaf.</div>
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That's all there is to it! It takes about 1 1/4 hours to mix and bake some of the best quick bread that you have ever tasted.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas has come and gone. I do hope everyone had a great time shopping, tidying the house, wrapping gifts and opening them Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, visiting with friends and relatives, eating, eating, and more eating, and then finally relaxing the days after. I love Christmas, it can be a lot of work, but I love the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contrite me has decided to send a serious and contemplative greeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem is LIFE HAPPENS and there's not much you can do about it but pull up your socks, stop moping about, and have fun! So, from my favourite family to yours...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Thanksgiving to all of my Canadian friends and family!</span></div>
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-60397058370445697222018-09-23T22:11:00.000-07:002018-09-23T22:11:34.446-07:00The making of "On the way to the Jollity Fair..." - part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello! Part 2 is all about the bottom section of "On the way to the Jollity Fair..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been collecting pictures of fairgrounds and midway rides for quite a few years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edward Ardizzone is one of my favourite artists. This was probably the first image that I put into the folder for the Jollity Fair. There will be part of the midway featured in the lower section of the sculpture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the pictures of fairs in my folder are of British origin. I was wanting low key, rural.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture is after the bottom section changed direction. The opening with the domed background is 2 1/4" high and 3" wide, definitely not big enough for any fairground ride. The scale for a ferris wheel would have been very small indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a closer look at the sky and the brown moulding. The sky has soft hazy clouds streaked through the blue, I liked it but it just didn't work at all. The bottom section dominated the sculpture creating two separate vignettes not at all working as a cohesive unit. The blue sky became history, another paint layer towards a more interesting final surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the process of adding the composition to the top section I made certain to leave small remnants of composition on the exposed moulding. I don't want it to look polished and pristine. The moulding had to look like it was just emerging from the soil or possibly being consumed by it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had decided to show stalls with produce and souvenirs. Those two poles were to have a banner suspended between them, it was to be the entrance to the Jollity Fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the banner. Jollity Village presents the annual Jollity Fair. Originally, I'm talking 10 years ago, Jollity Fair was spelt J-O-Llity Fair. I wanted it to be J-O-L as in Jack-O-Lantern but once on the banner the pronunciation was confusing so that was scrapped. The banner was printed twice, the second slightly larger and then after placing it between the poles I realized this looked terrible as well. The banner idea was scrapped. The poles were to be turned into tree trunks; branches, leaves and limbs had to be made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A month or so before having to create the two small trees on either side of the opening I came across this flower punch at Salvation Army, I hesitated buying it but decided to anyway. This punch turned out to be perfect for the leaves for the trees. It is amazing but this happens to me regularly. The Holy Spirit puts items that I need but I haven't seen for years and items that I will need but don't realize it yet right where I will see them when I am at the thrift stores. Thank-you, Holy Spirit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dark brown soil, moulding, and the blue sky has been painted with various browns and greens, it looks better already. The halo of blue around the opening will be gently brushed and faded into the green background behind the trees once they are finally built. The stack of black cardboard disks by the unfinished tree is the base the ticket booth/puppet theatre will be glued to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This October 1954 cover for the Christian Herald was one of my inspiration photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slowly but surely the bottom section was changing from a midway to a rural farming fair, these vendor's stalls were the inspiration for the stalls in my sculpture. My fair is much more colour and style coordinated than any normal fair. The artist/designer in me would love to see fairs done this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earlier in this blog post you will remember me mentioning how small any midway rides would have had to be, well that goes for produce stalls and the produce that is displayed on them. What on earth was I going to use for the vegetables, I had nothing. I finally settled on using vintage floral stamens. Each stamen was individually hand painted. The detail in this sculpture is way more than anything that I have created before, I have had an absolute blast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't want the vegetables to look "real" just an impression, the viewer can decide what they are. They kind of look like squash and peppers or pears, apples, pumpkin and something else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tiny baskets are made from a small metal ring glued to a 1/4" paper punch disk of thin card, that's how small these suckers are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's interesting that after all of the images that I have collected and the various changes that I have made to the sculpture this one picture that I took at Metchosin Days a few years ago summed up what the sculpture was about. I was recreating the Metchosin Days country market/fair but with input from other design sources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two of the finished stalls piled high with the tiny produce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love this illustration from an English children's annual. There had to be balloons in the tiny scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are the balloons, a tiny chair to tie some of them to, and a stall filled with balls and souvenir horns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The balloons are the plastic tips to sewing pins, the tops to glass head pins are impossible to take off, they would also be to heavy. The plastic head was glued to a section of fine brass wire. I repainted each balloon it's original plastic tip colour and painted a clear gloss varnish on top. A soft grey was added to the string to complete these tiny props.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chair is a tiny silver oriental charm bracelet charm. The seat is a small disc of card glued in place to hide the open base. A white base coat is under the thin green top coat, the seat is a very deep green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Souvenir horns are the tips of round toothpicks painted, cut off, and the exposed wood painted. Of all of the props that were made these horns were the easiest and quickest to make unless you consider the balls, they are vintage map pins with no painting required. Some of the pins had cream coloured dots on top, a design bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I happened across the sentry post and immediately wanted a ticket booth/puppet theatre that looked similar to this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am so proud of this little structure, it was a pain to make. The roof was originally from a lampshade finial that has been around for quite a few years. The structure was made over a tapered wooden finial. I won't go into the details of finding the position of the stripes and matching the top of the stripe to a different spacing width at the bottom, drawing a curved opening, cutting it out, and then drawing and cutting a curved shelf to be glued in place. Many attempts were made with each small detail and then discarded is all that I will say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottom section of the sculpture is finished, what a journey this has been. The trees are finished. Some branches were added into the background, they aren't even attached to the trees, they give the appearance of lush full trees. Bushes and undergrowth fill out the bases of the trees. The sky has been softly faded into the mottled green background behind the trees. The vendor's stalls are in place. I am very pleased with how this bottom section turned out, I'm pleased with the entire sculpture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Metchosin Days country fair is the inspiration for the Jollity Fair, <a href="https://www.happyholidays.ca/2009/09/little-tour-of-my-brain-part-9-country.html">check out this link that I posted in 2009.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The finished sculpture, "On the way to the Jollity Fair...", is <a href="https://www.happyholidays.ca/2018/08/on-way-to-jollity-fair_31.html">available to purchase here</a>.</span></div>
Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-12609831765840895842018-09-17T15:33:00.001-07:002018-09-17T15:33:20.589-07:00The making of "On the way to the Jollity Fair..." - part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love antique and vintage book illustrations. I recently remembered that I had wanted to illustrate books. Unfortunately, I get very bored drawing, I'm not a two dimensional artist, I visualize in three dimensions and I create in three dimensions, I'm a maker of things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is always a story that my sculptures are illustrating. Book illustration from a hundred years ago and earlier would have the main illustration and then off to the side or at the bottom there would be a scene depicting another part of the the story. I have been experimenting with this technique in my sculptures for the last couple of years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This illustration of Hansel and Gretel is by a German artist, Hermann Vogel (1854 - 1921) and shows what I am talking about. I discovered Hermann Vogel <a href="https://pierangelo-boog.blogspot.com/">on this blog</a>, I highly recommend it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hermann Vogel is all but forgotten now and if I hadn't started following this blog I would never have known about him. He has become one of my top ten artists. His draughtsmanship and the detail in his work is amazing, and there is humour in his work, that is a plus in my books.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"On the way to the Jollity Fair.." was originally titled "Off to the Jollity Fair" and was going to feature a midway in the bottom section, more about that in second blog post about this sculpture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The body of the sculpture is a small mantle clock case turned upside down. A large base for the main part of the sculpture has been added to what used to be the bottom of the clock case. Thin plywood roughly cut to shape has been glued in place ready to have composition added.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This back shot shows a long strip of wood at the top that will have self levelling hangers attached once the sculpture is finished. The shorter strip of wood above the opening is there to keep the sculpture hanging squarely on the wall and not tipping down at the front.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The back has been filled in with composition, ready to paint. Black felt will cover the back area touching the wall, so as not to leave any marks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was putting this blog post together I realized that the raised areas on the sculpture were very similar to the hillocks in this drawing. I had forgotten this image was even in my inspiration folder, it</span></span> is from an early school reader in my book collection. There are about thirty other photos and drawings in the folder for this sculpture. Once the file is assembled I seldom look at it, the images are sitting in my mind percolating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly, the maple leaf didn't look good at all and the star won hands down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to add a small tail so that I could attach them to the branch wire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The maple leaves, shown here, and the stars were daubed on each side with orange, red, and yellow paint. This was a lot of unexpected work put into building the tree, but it was worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The painted stars are transformed from tiny handmade leaves on the left, to individual branches, to larger limbs, to painting the branches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree is painted, the path and hills are painted with the first of many coats of paint and various debris glued in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what the paint job was supposed to look like, I hated it. The blue divided the sculpture into two separate areas and demanded your attention. Quite often an initial paint colour doesn't work and the area in question is repainted until it looks correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember reading in an interior design book that walls look better the more that they are painted, the same is true for any painted surface. I never see mistakes when I'm working on a sculpture; I see opportunity and depth of character developing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is another photo from my file that I had forgotten about, my tree looks very similar to these trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The baskets turned into another make work project. None of the baskets that are in my stash were small enough or looked correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three foot lengths of wire were wrapped with tissue paper and glue. The wire, as it got longer and difficult to manage, was wrapped around my finger to create different size loops. The looped wire was then wrapped around itself so as not to get in the way. The completed tissue wrapped wire was gently undone keeping most of the kinks in place and wrapped around my fingers for storage. I made five bundles of wrapped wire and then wove the baskets.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">During the weaving of the basket a lot of the kinks were removed but it gives the basket a very natural relaxed look. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The basket is finished and ready to be painted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Cyril at his most undignified moment, waiting for his body and appendages to take shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sparky, Cyril, and Quentin now have their cotton batting bodies tightly bound with crochet cotton. Sparky was originally going to be kneeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top half of the sculpture with Quentin and his grandsons Sparky and Cyril.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The finished sculpture, "On the way to the Jollity Fair...", is <a href="https://www.happyholidays.ca/2018/08/on-way-to-jollity-fair_31.html">available to purchase here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello. Thanks for stopping by and having a look at my mixed media sculpture, "On the way to the Jollity Fair..."</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quentin, and his grandsons, Sparky and Cyril asked me to make this particular sculpture. The Jollity Fair is the highlight of the season for everyone living in and around Jollity Village. It signals to one and all that summer is almost over, as if they weren't aware of it already, and that the cool crisp autumn mornings and the crunch of colourful dry leaves under foot are on the way.<br />
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The guys wanted me to show them pointing at something in the distance, they didn't mention what it was.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Sparky what it was that they were pointing at. "We were playing a silly game we had made up. We called it, on the way to the Jollity Fair, it went like this, "On the way to the Jollity Fair I saw a bear that wasn't there.", the last sentence had to rhyme. I was pointing at the bear that wasn't there. He went on in some detail telling me all about this game that they had invented along with all of the rules.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quentin said that the fair was in the distance and they were looking at the morning sun on the clouds.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cyril countered this with, "No, the three of us were pointing at something that caught our eye in the distance. He then took me by the hand and placed me in front of the three tiny figures with their fingers pointing at me. "There, that's perfect.", was his reply.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I looked at the three of them, there was the most sincere expression on each face with just the slightest of twinkle in their eyes.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, all of that aside, the top section of the sculpture shows Quentin and his grandsons Sparky and Cyril on their way to the Jollity Fair and the moment that they are looking at this "something" in the distance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottom section shows some of the stalls at the fair.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a closer look at Quentin and his grandsons Sparky and Cyril. They are dressed in vintage fabrics, the blue patterned textiles are from 1940s mens scarves.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This close-up of the bottom section shows some of the stalls at the Jollity Fair. The kiosk on the left could have been a ticket booth or a puppet theatre, I forgot to ask. The stall beside it and the one farthest away are selling produce. The stall on the right is selling toys and souvenirs of the the fair, trumpets, balls, and balloons. Some of the balloons are tied to the chair back and others are tied to a stake just behind the chair.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This mixed media wall hung sculpture measures 18" high, 16" wide, and 4" deep.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The back is covered with black felt to protect the wall from getting marked.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It will be signed and dated on the black felt backing.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"On the way to the Jollity Fair..." is $950.00 including shipping to continental U.S. and Canada. I will send it insured by Canada Post. It arrives duty free into the U.S.</span><br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-9818410266333902142018-02-14T05:29:00.000-08:002018-04-07T14:49:25.119-07:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-34711696921317607822017-12-31T16:46:00.000-08:002017-12-31T16:46:40.943-08:00Happy New Year! Happy 2018!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-31875649066853248602017-12-23T10:27:00.000-08:002017-12-23T12:03:56.986-08:00Merry Christmas!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-62419680468192441462017-10-31T17:59:00.008-07:002022-05-28T16:08:35.412-07:00Blackberry Pie for Hallowe'en? EHAG Emporium.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jake loves blackberries, plain and simple. Close to his home is a large field of wild blackberries. Once they start to ripen in the hot lazy days in August he is out first thing in the morning picking blackberries. The blackberries are frozen whole for pies, turned into jam, as well as used in his very popular blackberry liqueur.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Every Hallowe'en Jake brings a blackberry pie to the party, it has a splash of his blackberry liqueur in the filling.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Who says Hallowe'en is just for pumpkin pie!", laughs Jake, "Have a slice of my blackberry pie. It's really very excellent, if I may say so myself."<br /><br />"I've eaten more than one slice of his blackberry pie and to quote Jake, "It really is very excellent."</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Jake, along with Rolly his parade lantern, come bearing the annual "Hallowe'en Pie", blackberry of course.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> This close-up view shows the lovely blackberry pie. The pie is made of composition in a small antique tart shell mould.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The blackberries are "Made in Japan" berry pips painted to look like ripe blackberries.</span><br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This mixed media sculpture is not a toy, be gentle with it when you want to hear the jingle of the bells.</span><br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Portrait Rattle - Blackberry Pie for Hallowe'en?", is 13" long from the handle tip to the top of the rattle, 7 1/2 " wide, 5" deep.</span><br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-60064578740851974302017-10-09T15:17:00.000-07:002017-10-09T15:17:18.082-07:00Happy Thanksgiving!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-83122462870927400322017-08-07T22:35:00.000-07:002017-08-07T22:35:58.289-07:00"Ready To Party"; the forgotten blog post.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Ready to Party" was posted last year in <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2016/09/the-september-ehag-emporium-is-open-are.html"><span class="s2">the September 2016 EHAG Emporium</span></a>.<br />
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The puzzle of grand proportions that I was referring to involved the plywood backing for the sculpture. Originally the back of the shadowbox was one piece of plywood that would be glued to the back of the box. The problem was that I had to have the backing permanently in place to build up composition for the landscape, paint the background, and then add small bits of foliage. Installing the piece of glass for the window was the issue. How on earth do I have the back in place but still have it open so that I can insert the windowpane? I had to leave the problem, work on other areas of the sculpture and let my brain sort things out.</span></span></div>
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The solution was simple, but it did take a while to realize, cut the backing from top to bottom at about the corner of the room. I was able to do the work on the landscape, install the glass, and then add the other section of backing plywood. I didn't take a picture of the back as I was working on it unfortunately, I hope my description of the process is clear.</span></span></div>
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-17895772089653761662017-06-09T11:30:00.000-07:002017-06-09T11:30:17.418-07:00The Bookworm and The Window Seat - part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello there. Thanks for coming back to read part 2 of "The Bookworm and The Window Seat".</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This sculpture was originally about a daydreamer, book in hand, gazing out of the window. As I work, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the character tells me who they are and how the sculpture is to look.</span> <br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes the character or characters introduce themselves by name and start revealing who they are, what they like, as well as what they don't like, without any hesitation.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other characters, like this one, tend to be more introverted, not shy or cautious, they just like being alone. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I kept working on the sculpture and the character slowly came out of his shell.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The original textiles chosen for his clothing changed once or twice.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something didn't feel right about him, book in hand, gazing out of the window. I'd even considered having him lean in the window seat, a small pumpkin in his hand, rehearsing his lines for the community theatre, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio..." </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made three small books </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with pages, not solid prop books, so that I had a variety of ways of using them. The character on the window seat has put the book down, its pages open </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">slightly</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He has his index finger between the pages of the book in his right hand. I like subtlety, it gives depth and realism to the overall sculpture.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I covered each book in a different hand marbled paper. The patterns and colours worked well together and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with the sculpture.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All three books were finally used.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I realized that this sculpture, but more importantly the character, was all about books.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the sculpture was complete he revealed his name, Toby.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He loves books</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the printed word, pictures, research and reading, being lost in another world between the covers of a book.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I arrived at the cushion fabric after trying about 12 textiles. I wanted the cushion to be seen but not a focal point.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last detail to be completed was bending and shaping each leaf and branch. I'm pleased with this sculpture and meeting Toby, the bookworm on the window seat.</span><br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-71597936370278154612017-06-05T16:02:00.000-07:002017-06-08T12:31:43.806-07:00The Bookworm and The Window Seat - part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm constantly collecting things and images. Most of the "things", I'll use in my sculptures, a few are for reference and the "images" are for inspiration. Both of the following illustrations are by Jessie Wilcox Smith, I love her work.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this image stirred something inside of me and "The Daydreamer" started to take shape in my brain.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of years ago I built a shadow box on the back of this antique pressed oak frame. The scrap wood armature had not been added to the frame at that time.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A year or so ago, I started building this tree with no particular sculpture in mind and I liked it with the oak frame.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I added the scrap wood, I must say that I had some concern about the size and shape of the armature but decided if I didn't like the look, all I had to do was cut or break bits off until the basic design was balanced. Part of the base that is projecting forward, beside the pink Melmac bowl, had a piece of the wooden armature broken off with a pair of pliers, it looked wrong and was corrected. Composition was slathered onto the wooden armature and allowed to dry.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Extra branches were built and added to the tree to fill it out. The trunk was built up, heavy gauge wire was wrapped around the trunk and the roots. The wire was cut off leaving about 1 1/2" that was used to feed through holes drilled in the base and then bent over attaching the tree securely in place.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The printed liner paper in these antique envelopes was used to paper the wall and ceiling of the window seat.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The colour scheme was starting to take shape.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These two baskets were chosen from my stash of tiny baskets. They were painted a rich dark brown and over painted with a grey paint that I rubbed into the basket as well as rubbing some of it off, instant aging. Corn silk was the glued inside the basket to simulate fine soft straw to cushion the just picked fruit.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The luscious red and green apples were vintage holly berries spray painted to look like ripe apples. Sitting there they don't look like much but once assembled they did the trick.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Smaller red holly berries and pearlized lavender and pink berries were spray painted to resemble ripe plums. I suppose I chose apples and plums because that's what's growing in the back yard.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The apple basket was screwed to the ground and then filled with the fruit. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The basket</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the plums</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> couldn't be screwed to the base because it's on its side but is securely glued and will not budge. The plums were put in place and scattered on the ground as though the basket had just tipped over.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The base was painted beforehand, and was ready for the various pieces of foliage to be added. Finally a dusting of cut bits of fibres and such were heavily applied to a thick layer of glue, allowed to dry and then shaken off.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He loves the weight of the book in his hand.</span><br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-2836139187979402522017-04-30T18:03:00.001-07:002017-04-30T18:05:12.685-07:00The EHAG Emporium is open!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello! Here is my latest sculpture. This <span style="font-size: 15px;">Landscape Rattle has a display base making it easier to display. The rattle can be lifted off of the base and</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">gently shaken, ringing all of those delightful bells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Please contact me at lenbenny@shaw.ca to purchase this sculpture. I accept Paypal as well as credit cards through Paypal.</span></div>
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-73428893874980015242017-02-14T09:57:00.000-08:002017-02-14T09:57:53.941-08:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since Christmas I have been sorting through my holiday collectables and selling the items that I no longer want, I need the space in my new studio so that I can get to work creating sculptures.</div>
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The image above comes from <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2015/02/happy-valentines-day-to-you.html">this blog post</a>, enjoy having a look.</div>
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-38779774526077080782016-12-31T12:50:00.000-08:002016-12-31T12:50:55.454-08:00My favourite family is here once again to wish you a Happy New Year.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13204206716673801806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3251022699709658269.post-45193319876745374422016-12-24T21:36:00.000-08:002016-12-24T21:36:00.358-08:00Merry Christmas!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Earlier this year I came across a Facebook post from a Popular Mechanics Magazine. The magazine was part of an online collection. The entire magazine had been scanned, so I scrolled through the it and was surprised to come across this article about the Victoria Christmas Cracker Company. About twenty years ago I was given some items from a woman whose mother had worked there.</div>
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These are a sample of the foils that were used in the making of the crackers.<br />
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Crepe paper fringe to decorate the crimped area of the crackers. The long section would cover the end of the cracker and the scalloped edge would fill in and decorate the crimped area of the cracker.<br />
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These scraps from England were used to decorate the centre of the cracker, they are most likely from Mamelok Press.<br />
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I don't have any hats that were placed in the crackers but I do have this sheet of jokes and riddles, right click this image as well to read sentimental poems and terrible jokes and riddles. The great rule of Christmas crackers is that all jokes and riddles must be so bad as to make you groan.<br />
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I wonder what happened to all of the machinery that was used to make the crackers? If I had the money I would the machinery and get that company working again.</div>
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Oh boy, am I late in posting this!<br />
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There is not a lot of room in the home so the mantle and fireplace is where I focus all of the seasonal displays. Christmas is the one exception to the rule. The living room and dining room are totally over the top Aladdin's Cave overwhelming!<br />
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This year I decided to display most of my paper Hallowe'en items. I had a lot more than I realized, this is about half! After putting all of the decorations away I discovered a box that had been overlooked, more cardboard and paper items!<br />
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This poster hung on the wall above my computer. It was tucked in a drawer, forgotten about, this is the first time that I have displayed it.<br />
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Here is a photo showing the whole Hallowe'en display. The only item moved from the Thanksgiving display was the small green stool. It went from under the marble top table onto the hearth on the right hand side.<br />
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Walking into the living room you can see a few items that are not completely visible from the front, the black cat on the pumpkin, the owl fortune telling game, and the side of the wooden box.<br />
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I hesitated in putting this picture in the post but decided to anyway, it's just a little closer look at the top half of this year's display.<br />
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The bare branches that were added into the mix of faux autumn leaves have been used to hang the Japanese rice straw leis, paper masks, gauze masks and the orange party hat on the right. The Mr. Peanut mask I purchased a couple of months ago. The four paper masks between the American Indian gauze mask and the paper black cat mask, my favourite, I think are villains from the Dick Tracey comics.<br />
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Here is a better look at the vignette that I created inside the Hudson's Soap box.The owl on the roll of dennison serpentine is an antique cloth tape measure. The witch candy container was made in U.S. zone Germany. the cat in front of her is a plaster filled celluloid cat.<br />
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Here's a closer look at the left side of the mantle, I love the cascading moss like effect that the leis give to the scene.<br />
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This picture shows some of the previous picture as well as some of the following picture. I wasn't certain if I should include it but you get a better look at the celluloid witch lantern, the black teapot and the smoker.<br />
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The black cat teapot looks extremely well behaved unlike the yowling black cat smoker or worse yet those mischievous black cat salt and pepper shakers.<br />
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The little fellow with a face on each foot is a Victorian match holder. The top of his head has holes in it for holding matches as do each of his toes. I suppose the burnt matches were placed in his mouth. He is not a Hallowe'en item but I have seen a lantern in the shape of a foot with a face on each toe, I love this little guy and used the likeness to the lantern as an excuse to showcase him.<br />
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I plonked an old paper party hat on the owl cookie jar. He stands next to a black cat teapot. The orange piece of card stock with the woman's face on it has recipes for Hallowe'en candy on the reverse side. My friend Karen gifted me with the bird jug, are you noticing as I am just now, that a tea party theme is emerging.<br />
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The wooden plaque above the German pumpkin is a pyrography or wood burning picture of "Cornish Litany".<br />
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My sculpture "Ready to Party" is hanging on the wall down in the righthand corner.<br />
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Here is a close-up of my sculpture "Ready to Party". It is available, <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2016/09/the-september-ehag-emporium-is-open-are.html">go to this blog post</a> for more information about it.<br />
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These plastic disguise glasses are from my youth, once I put them on absolutely no one recognized me!<br />
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Below the mantle are more treats, that lovely big German J-O-L with orange glassine paper inserts in the eyes nose and mouth, the happy family look of the pumpkin garland, and four paper plates behind the garland. Hanging on the left is a felt and cloth made in Japan witch.<br />
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This vignette features an early crepe papier table cloth resting on the brown stool. The black ebony dresser set has been put use to display various goodies. The two small bowls are filled with candy, the lidded box has place cards and seals in it, while the large tray holds the two candle sticks, an early doily, a corn cob pipe and J-O-L stickpin.<br />
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There are party nut cups, invitations, coasters, two orange and yellow milk bottle caps with ravens on them scattered about. There is also a small cloth witch standing beside a pair of brown Victorian walking boots.<br />
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The cast iron bowl is filled with bridge tallies and postcards. It is standing on a crepe papier napkin. The silver cat and moon diecut Is most likely from a party hat. Beside it are some black cat stickers and a very tiny but detailed witch on a broom.<br />
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On the marble table are two children's readers, a book of party ideas for the Hallowe'en host or hostess, and a copy of Tasha Tudor's book, "Pumpkin Moonshine" that I purchased in the early 1960s.<br />
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The black cat is a wind-up toy. He chases a butterfly so other than being black and a cat those are the only qualities that allow him to be present with his comrades, they are quite forgiving.<br />
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The box of cookie cutters are reproductions bought in the late 1990s.<br />
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The ceramic pumpkin candy dish is Japanese and stays on my dresser year round, he is a favourite.<br />
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This view shows the hearth and its contents of paper table cloths, paper plates, and a brown vintage basket filled with paper napkins of different designs. There are pictures following with close-ups of the rest of the treasure trove.<br />
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On the right mantle ledge in front of a New Yorker magazine and two children's magazines are some soft plastic candy containers, the witch still has some of her candy. The tiny black cat is made of wooden pieces held together with string. A vintage made in Japan mustache made of crepe hair used in theatre make up and two paper mustaches, all guaranteed to make one totally unrecognizable. The little pumpkin, once you push in his nose makes a very unscary wooing sound, and his eyes light up!<br />
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A closer look at the paper napkins and other tableware. The paper gun was an advertising give away from the Army and Navy Store. It is printed on card stock with a glassine paper insert attached inside. When it is brought down with a quick snap of the wrist the glassine paper shoots out with a loud snap.<br />
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And finally a close-up of the right hand side of the hearth only to show my nod to Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, with the English children's book by Alison Uttley, "Hare and Guy Fawkes".</div>
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Thanksgiving has come and gone in Canada. We celebrate it on the second Monday of October, this year it was on October 10.<br />
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Here are pictures of this year's Thanksgiving display.<br />
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This photo shows the entire display. I don't own a lot of Thanksgiving items so I have stretched the collection by adding in anything autumnal.<br />
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All of the background material goes up first and this year I wanted to have an easy transition into the Hallowe'en display so the needs for Hallowe'en were also being considered. A mix of various faux autumn leaves went up and over the mantle mirror. In with the faux leaves were added some bare branches that I had made several years ago. The colours of the trees in and around Victoria were my inspiration for the abundance of faux foliage that were used.<br />
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Here is a close-up of the left side of the mantle. The turkeys, pheasants, and roosters, are almost hidden in the foliage.<br />
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This scarecrow was made about 30 years ago for our oldest boys scarecrow birthday party, two place card holders from the party are on the scarecrows left beside the dill pickle horn that he is holding. The crepe paper zinnias are vintage, possibly 1950's. Gurley candles stand beside turkey, grouse, and chicken salt and pepper shakers.<br />
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The rest of the mantle is filled with more turkeys, chickens, pheasants, ducks, squirrels, I love squirrels, and acorn related items, I love oak trees.<br />
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Here is a look at the display below the mantle. The vintage stools add interesting height variations to the display.<br />
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The large stool features a wood carving by a French Canadian sculptor that my parents bought in the 1970s I believe. That large ceramic turkey is also among my favourite Thanksgiving items. A large plaster plaque with a horn of plenty and a raised inscription saying, "GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD", is in behind the farmer and his turkey.<br />
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Salt and pepper shakers, turkey florist vases, and a turkey cookie cutter are on the small green stool.<br />
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My collection of Thanksgiving postcards are in a large plastic fruit dish made in England. The dish is a large oak leaf with acorns that mimics a hand carved wooden dish, it is quite beautiful.<br />
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These earlier blog posts <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2009/10/little-tour-of-my-brain-part-10_11.html">here,</a> <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2009/10/little-tour-of-my-brain-part-10_10.html">here,</a> <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2009/10/little-tour-of-my-brain-part-10_09.html">here,</a> and <a href="http://www.happyholidays.ca/2009/10/little-tour-of-my-brain-part-10.html">here,</a> show most of the antique Thanksgiving postcards.<br />
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On the mantle ledge in behind the wooden carving of the farmer with his scythe are some nut cups, two Gurley candles, and two squirrel nodders. The small squirrel nodder is an early plastic while the larger squirrel is composition made in Japan. He has a rabbit fur tale that is a little tatty, but he is delightful none the less.<br />
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This last picture shows a group of squirrels on top of the tall green florist vase. On top of the fireplace screen and in front of it are various paper table cloths, seals, and other paper items.<br />
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You just never know what is going to happen when you are getting ready for Hallowe'en. We were working in the studio, I'm sorry, the we I'm referring to are <span style="font-family: -apple-system-font;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Barnie, Benny, and Bob, known as the "T</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">hree Musketeers", and myself. We were going to test out the new rattle that they were going to sit in and the top just fell off to the studio floor taking with it a lantern and the one garland that we had hung up earlier that morning. More decorating was going to happen later on that day, I getting off the topic, it startled us when it happened, I suppose I am still a little shaken up about it.</span></div>
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Barnie and Benny are lifting the top part of the rattle to see if anything else was damaged while Bob is inspecting the break. We couldn't believe what had just happened.<br />
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I thought that you would like to have a look just after what later became known as "The Event".<br />
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I was very surprised at how strong Barnie and Benny were as they were lifting the top end of the rattle. Barnie reminded me that they weren't just a pair of good looking guys but that they have been working out at the Jollity Village Gym and Fitness Centre.<br />
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Here is a closer look at Barnie and Benny lifting the top part of the rattle. We did start to laugh after a while, especially when we realized that no one was hurt. The expressions on each of our faces was quite hilarious.<br />
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Bob is inspecting the break realizing that this is the end of the glorious rattle.<br />
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"There is no way that we can repair it", he informed us.<br />
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So there you have have it, you just never know what is going to happen when you are getting ready for Hallowe'en.<br />
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