Pictograms: Pokhara health home (watercolour pencil)
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Post’d: Telegrams re-mixed for a un-modern, post-forgotten age
Telegrams re-mixed for a un-modern, post-forgotten age. Water coloured with paints from a dollar store > cryptic messages scribbled fountain pen > inky stamps applied appropriately > chopped with tiny scissors > glued > addressed > mailed to magic makers worldwide > digitized for your possible convenience, enjoyment and/or pleasure.
Pictograms: Notes to adventurers (mixed media + ephemera)
Various handmade “pictograms” from from watercolour notebook paper and various foreign postage stamps and inky stamps – mostly made in Newfoundland and Labrador, though some in Nova Scotia whilst i was rambling Maritime Canada seeking a home (which i did not find).
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Pictograms: Penang seascapes (watercolour)
Pictograms: Wander + wonder story snippets
Pictograms: Earthship (Lomo photo + watercolour)
Snapped with Lomo La Sardina (sardine can) camera – some pics by Jamielee Eldridge – of my old VW bus (dubbed “The Earthship”) which is now a bus sauna at Mangy Moose Lodge in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Pics stuck to watercoloured paper, annotated or otherwise embellished and mailed to folks.
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Just doing some scrapbooking…
Just doing some scrapbooking. Makes up for memory loss and helps with coordination skillz. Also, art.
Arts and Crafts: Personal Paintings in Progress
A rapid tour of Dave’s paintings in progress with partially finished paintings (mostly from Europe: Spain, Portugal and Belgium) draped in various states of completion in a working kitchen studio.
Scrapbooks: the Therapy Series
The Therapy Series – 6 finished note/art/project books – ready to capture schemes, ideas & expressions of affection.
Finished collating, drilling, sewing, binding, stamping, and decorating six notebooks (&/or)/ scrapbooks.
Each has a theme and a personality befitting of the recipient.
Also most are tree free paper (but not all).
Boardgames sacrificed include: Therapy, Clue, Risk, Trivial Pursuit
I will keep one for me…. Which one shall I keep?
I have destinations for the other 5.
PS There’s a video about making these delightful scrapbooks as well.
Seeking a Handmade Holiday Gift? Mavili’s Hat and Scarves at Lonsdale Quay
Mavili sells his handmade hats and scarves at Lonsdale Quay during the holidays and reports place him at other markets from time to time. His hats and scarves make great festive gifts and your money is going to a decent man working hard at his craft.
Get on the SeaBus at Waterfront Station for a :15 harbour cruise with a market at the other side where you’ll see Mavili and other fine vendors and fishmongers. Here are a few photos of Lonsdale Quay and North Vancouver etc.
His hats are made from the finest materials (mostly wool) and the workmanship is old-world outstanding – he is often sewing right on site!
This year, his booth he is on a cross aisle in the Quay Market near the bank machine – do not confuse him with the cheap knock of hats vendor. (BTW, Mavili only takes cash so the bank machine is well placed).
Here’s his photo for the record:
He makes hats and scarves in various styles for gentlemen and ladies – i am partial to the designs with earflaps cause my ears stay warm and i feel like Holden Caulfied in Catcher in the Rye.
Some kind Choogle on podcast fans purchased this one for me as a gift. Alas i lost it.
Fortunately Mavili made me a custom made new version with a few minor changes for ever more ruggedness!
Last year i purchased colour and style matched hats for all my brothers who were all pleased. I wear one of his hats each day and am now a proud owner of a matching hat and scarf set while my brother Dan got another lid for his collection.
Support this talented artisan this festive season and be sure to tell him i said hello!
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