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A new ship for the tinlark show: The Tookoolito
The daily bird is natalie.
She’ll be in the shop at 3 PM EST. * If you have emailed about ordering birds or ships ( hi heidi) and have been frustrated I promise you will eventually hear back. Thanks in advance for your patience. * The daily bird ted watches as a ship sails past.
If you’ve check out Laura Normandin’s blog then you already know I’m participating in a show in LA this July at Tinlark Gallery with Laura and Maggie Hiltner. It’s flattering to be included with such talented people. I’m enjoying making things for the show and excited in kind of a mildly hysterical way about the experience – I’ve never done anything like this before and the thought is a little overwhelming. I’m doing an installation in the project room that will include the 100 horse project.
The space is perfect for the horses and I’m also making new ships and some other things. I’ll be posting progress photos and will probably be getting myself on some kind of self -inflicted program soon to insure steady forward progress.
I’ll give you more news on the show as it becomes available. Today’s bird, Freda, looks like she means business.
She’ll be in the shop at 8:30 PM EST. Progress on some new ships:
It’s been an extra busy week, hence the lack of posts but I’ ll be back next week with some news and the daily bird. * check out Laura Normandin’s new blog. * Recently, I gave the Pollyanna, a ship I made last summer, a little overhaul – new sails, a layer of paper, some pink paint and new flags and now she’s being auctioned to benefit The Children’s Aid Society . You’ll find the auction here.
And the daily bird:
Amybeth. She’ll be in the shop at 6 PM EST this evening. This is the Fortitude. She’ll be auctioned (beginning Wednesday the 3rd) in the benefit organized by Lisa, Stephanie, and Gerrie for the Kim family. There’s lot’s of amazing stuff; you can see a preview here.
Her sails are sheer swiss dot salvaged from an edwardian lawn dress and some other vintage bits including pieces of a beautiful aqua, rose and green paisley dress my mother made for herself in the sixties, it’s one of my all time most favorite fabrics.
Happy New Year ! I do, and they really showed up for me on Saturday for THE GIFT on grand. I’ve been working my ass off and had come pretty much unglued by Saturday morning but my amazing pit crew put the whole thing together. So thanks, to each and every one of you, I would have been lost without you. I’m still kinda unglued from the effort of the last couple weeks and my computer is being all slow and weird too so everything is taking me forever including updating my shop. I finally got it done and there are a few new birds there now. The show on Saturday was great. It was my first time doing anything like that and I wasn’t sure what to expect but it went really well and I learned a lot. Thanks to everybody who came by to say hi and to Sodafine for putting it together.
I’ve been working on wedding cake toppers. The Bride and groom birds in the photo are gone but I should have some new things available by February . The ship above is my newest “The Fortitude”. I’m going to take and post my customary too many pictures tomorrow. *Note on the photo below* Yesterday we put up the halloween window at Johnson. There were chocolate covered pretzels and mini candies and champagne. It was a lovely time indeed. This is the ghost ship, The Antonia, I barely had time to take a picture, some of the paint wasn’t even dry when I got in the cab.
I was in a mad frenzy of making creepy things over the weekend. These bats are made from victorian bits and pieces.
The bats were fun to make, and so was this little spider, I’ll probably make a few more. He’s sitting on an unfinished paper mache mushroom. I had planned on making a bunch of mushrooms but this one took forever.
And here’s the window sort of done. It needs a little more work. Note the creepy sales lady lurking in the backround.
I found this doll the last time I went home. I made her when I was 10 and loved everything victorian, dolls in particular. I desperately wanted a REAL china [tag]doll[/tag] and this was my [tag]DIY[/tag] attempt. Her expression cracks me up. She’s lying on a little collection of bits and pieces I’m getting together for a couple more [tag]ships[/tag] similar to The Meriwether – very pale, tattered, translucent and fragile. I love that old rose fabric and I’ll be sad when it’s all gone. I finished the [tag]paper mache[/tag] hull tonight on yet to be named ship number 6 and I’ll start to think about sails tomorrow. It was fraught with peril but ultimately accomplished, sort of, the shop is finally updated. There were frustrations at every turn. I can’t believe how long it takes me to create my crappy, clunky little shopping experience. I need professional help. Some paper mache ships and a few birds are available, if you happen to be in NYC the ships are still hanging in the window at Johnson .
These were the last two birds to leave the shop, Ada and Margarita.
I’m working on new birds right now and they’ll be in the shop by next Monday, 10/2. There will also finally be ships for sale. I intended to put them up last week but work interfered, so sorry to anybody who inquired last week, it’s next Monday the second for sure. I’m working on some new ones and the others are hanging in the window at JOHNSON on Orchard St. this week to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of the shop. Mrs. Johnson and I hung them today. Here she is checkin it out.
I’ve been on fire all day, not sure why. Maybe because I had chocolate cake (really good chocolate cake) for breakfast or because I had no wisdom tooth (which has been a big distraction and bother lately) pain at all today or that I got a lovely package in the mail or all those things combined with what a perfect September day it was – for whatever reason I had an exceptional day. The package was from Lisa ( her fabric give-away) and I love it. It’s all great. I’m going to build a ship around the flowered piece on the left. Thanks very much Lisa, it’s perfect. And I did finally finish my ship, The Carolina.
Because I am a banana here’s a grainy little movie of it in action. Not much happens it just spins around. My friend, and until very recently neighbor, Craig up and moved to Egypt (for the next 9 months anyways) last week. I’m pleased to see that he took his little plaid friend ian with him. His priorities are obviously in order. This is ian on Zamalek Island on the Nile looking across to Cairo. There will be a new ship tomorow, there should have been one today but I was a little bit of a slacker for no good reason. Here’s a little sail preview. A different sort of ship – simple, non translucent and wall mounted. |
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