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Jolene on January 10th, 2011

The Topsy Turvy doll is a doll that has a sad face at one side and a happy face at the other.  Traditionally, they had a coloured face at one side and a white face at the other but these have fallen out of favour to be replaced with sad/happy face.  Normally the sad doll [...]

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Alasdair on May 26th, 2010

A Prince among wood sprites? Surely he must be!  Look he has a crown on!? I’ve put in place a self-imposed ban on making these sprites as they seem to be quickly taking over the house!  Until I start making more again I’m just going to drip feed the existing ones to you! Available to [...]

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Alasdair on May 6th, 2010

I have blogged about these before, so won’t bore you with the details again.  I have been trying to get some decent individual shots of them though and having struggled with lighting and props I finally managed to get some pictures for the shop, I’m rather please with them so I thought I might as [...]

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Alasdair on March 18th, 2010

Skot is another artist found through DeviantArt where he goes by the name Lord Hoki, living on Austrailia’s East Coast Skot works in a variety of media creating a range of drawn, painted and sculpted objects.  Much of his DeviantArt account is taken up with his Hoki range of work such as those pictured below: [...]

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Alasdair on February 17th, 2010

I’ve really been taken by the work of Kezeff, another artist I found on DeviantArt.  I’ve only been following them for a short period, but even in that time I have been fairly impressed not only by the quality of their work but by the creativity behind it and the seemingly highly effective execution of [...]

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Alasdair on January 19th, 2010

It’s been commented on in the past that there are strange things going on in the dark recesses of my mind, that they seem to bleed out into the light through what I create … I think ‘they’ may have a point. I seem to have a raft of canvasses lying around and despite repeated [...]

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Alasdair on January 10th, 2010

It’s always a bit of struggle for me to get back into the swing of the craft thing following the festive frivolities, of course it hasn’t helped that we were on emergency fuel rations until our delivery arrived Wednesday and I had to spend the next three days shifting it up the hill to the house [...]

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Alasdair on December 4th, 2009

I first became aware of Helen’s work a few years ago when I began dabbling with papier mache and was just beginning to see the possibilities it offered beyond what we traditionally think of when we hear about this much under-rated material.  I had tried my hand at making a mask with mache and Helen [...]

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Alasdair on November 25th, 2009

This will probably be the final batch of plant pokes until after Christmas as ‘other priorities’ take over … also, the workshop gets hellish cold at this time of year due to gaping gaps under the doors and roof which may as well not be there when the cold winter gales get going! Click image [...]

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Alasdair on October 24th, 2009

Better late than never. I finally managed to get the guy dressed and delivered to the shop on Tuesday, a bit later than I had hoped, although this was largely as a result of not being able to find any suitable clothing for the chap … the hat, for example, wasn’t exactly what I had in [...]

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