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I’m working on lots of new paper mache  and thinking about little  bits of paper I’ve found and  saved.

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I’m also working on a small gray owl.  My plan was to make him entirely gray but he won’t have it.

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new things in the shop

I’ve added lots of new things to the shop including paper mache sailboat #7.

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iago

iago

Motiveless malignity.

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And something else: Over the summer I took Susan Sato’s “One Patch Scrap Quilt”  class at Fiber Notion here in Park Slope. The class was great, I had zero experience with traditional quilting techniques and I learned a ton, stuff that I use in my other hand sewing too. The class  is being offered again beginning November 4th. You can contact Kat at Fiber Notion for more info.

quilt(indigo one patch cushion cover – in progress)

boro owl and birds -wip

update 10/15:

beakI’ve abandoned the plan to put new things in the shop this week, instead it will be the beginning of next week. I was photographing things yesterday and this morning and  saw lots of stuff I felt iffy about or didn’t like.  I was particularly disappointed in the indigo owl,  among other things his beak was completely wrong so I’m re -working it now and already like it much, much better.

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I’ll post a couple more progress photos here later today.

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indigo owl – in progress

Thanks for giving Chillingworth such a warm reception! I’m working on a new indigo  owl now for next week’s shop update. The Japanese scraps are courtesey of Stephen Szczepanek. This owl is of particularly robust figure.

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Some other work in progress:

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And a couple things for the new “small things”  section of the shop. A set of tiny  office supplies in matchboxes and a pensive little cherub. I got the cherub an the Park slope Flea market  – it washed up on Plum Beach in Brooklyn.

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froth, foam and the daily bird

underskirt

This truly glorious antique underskirt is destroyed in the skirt sense, it’s so fragile I’m surprised I was able to hang it for the photo,  but it  will make a  wonderful  foamy, boiling sea for a paper mache ship.

Bird news: the daily bird is back  for one week.   I’ll post one little bird for sale in the shop Monday through Friday,  the time will vary. I’ll post a link here in the side bar each day when it’s ready and also on twitter.

*little clarification – I’ll post a link here in the sidebar but will not be emailing subscribers for each daily bird *

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This is Monday’s bird matilde in a pine tree in Prospect Park.