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new owls in the shop

annwood — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:46:18 +0000

*This week will be the last opportunity to order sweethearts for a while – I won’t be able to take new orders for the next few weeks (I will still be adding ready made sweethearts occasionally). I will stop taking sweetheart orders on August 20th.

they float

annwood — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:55:41 +0000

I replaced my giant wooden work table with a much smaller iron table with a glass top. It feels light and kind of unobtrusive in this little place. Working on the glass top is sort of an odd sensation but so far I like it, if it starts to drive me mad I can replace the glass or cover it with homasote or something.

barnabas – shop update

annwood — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0000

I’ve just put Barnabas in the shop and there are also some new spiders -

and new pirates, campers and corsage girls.

miss bird says hello

dark things

annwood — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:00:51 +0000

Thanks to everyone who turned up at last weeks shop update ( part 2 later this week) -things went quickly and if you were disappointed there will be more very soon, I’m already working on several new owls and spiders and bats including another bad owl.

He’s made from the backing of an antique crazy quilt I’ll show you later on and bits of several garments.

I’ve gotten several really old black garments lately.

I think the lace cuffs are going to be spiders.

the line up

annwood — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:01:37 +0000

The owls above and some other new things are available here now.

Between filling orders and new things I ‘ve made a crazy amount of stuff over the last few weeks and at the moment I’m kind of spent (I’m starting to think my boss is an a**hole….) so in the interest of not losing my marbles , I decided to do the this shop update in 2 sections – today there are owls, spiders bats and ballerinas. Next week will be boats, ships, small things and birds, a couple ships are previewed below and I’ll post other previews here soon.

an owl, a ship and a ballerina

annwood — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:47:13 +0000

the weaver girl and an owl

annwood — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:19:33 +0000

This is the weaver girl, she has sails made from the underskirt of a vintage wedding gown and patched with Japanese scraps from Sri Threads.

And progress on another owl.

The owl and the ship will both be in the shop soon. ( please join my mailing list of you would like to be notified when new things are available in the shop)

melancholy jaques

annwood — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:31:38 +0000

“all the world’s a stage”

snow

annwood — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:42:22 +0000

One of the first really old things I bought for making things was a purple silk bodice that was in wretched condition. The silk itself was mostly unusable- it disintegrates when you touch it .

I was originally interested in the buttons, the fantastic buttons, flinty piercing eyes, they inspired my first owl, but when I began to take it apart I found a variety of tiny prints and lovely indigo , hidden and preserved in the foundation. They ‘re mostly gone now – used in owl ears and beaks and spiders but yesterday I found one more piece of my favorite print inside a cuff. I think it’s enough for a beak for the fellow in the background and maybe a spider too.

It is snowing like nobody’s business in Park Slope.

an owl and a tree

annwood — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:32 +0000

A merry wobbler tucked into a little wool nest.

Part of tree costume for someone little.

And an owl costume made of old sweaters for another little fellow.

They were such fun to make.