This makes me miss Victoria, B.C. A cherry tree in blossom and some people in the park. It's a paper model kit -- you can put it together yourself.
This makes me miss Victoria, B.C. A cherry tree in blossom and some people in the park. It's a paper model kit -- you can put it together yourself.
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These dresses are made entirely of paper.
So is that one, even the pearls. Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave is primarily a painter but she worked with costume historians and young fashion designers to create elaborate paper dresses inspired by early European paintings and significant costumes housed in museums around the world. The show, Pulp Fashion, is currently on exhibit at The Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Sometimes I really miss that city.Thanks to Carrie for the link.
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This scarf is absolutely gorgeous, isn't it? I had a hard time choosin just one thing to feature from this etsy shop, Ava Original. It sells the work of a German felt and textile artist who makes scarves, belts, dresses and more that look like they'd work as fairy costumes for A Midsummer Night's Eve. Felt isn't just for winter.
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The theatre is a free download (apparently it is just the right size for a cereal box) and the Peter and the Wolf puppets are $5.50 from Sarah Jane. She will be designing more puppets for this theatre, and some of them will be free.
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Artist Elsa Mora often works in paper and in fact she has a whole blog devoted to paper cutting. Currently she is working on a paper cut pop-up book of the fables of La Fontaine for the French publishing house Editions Auzou and she is sharing her progress as she works on the illustrations on her blog. So beautiful and so inspiring! I'll be following this with interest and cannot wait to get my hands on a finished copy.
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Modern Parents, Messy Kids provides a terrific paper-crane-making tutorial so that you and your kids can take part in a fundraising project for Japan by Students Rebuild. For every paper crane submitted by children, the Bezos Family Foundation will contribute $2.00 to Architecture for Humanity's reconstruction efforts in Japan, up to a total of $200,000. After they reach their goal of collecting 100,000 paper cranes, they will be woven into an art installation.
Or you could just do this on a smaller scale yourself, with your child's school.
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Sylvie and I were in the dollar store this morning, where we picked up Easter grass and these adorable felt flowers on wire stems. I think they were $1.25 for five flowers. When we got home we spent five minutes making this flower crown. We cut a piece of green construction paper in half, taped two ends together, wrapped it around Sylvie's head and then taped it to fit. We removed it and used a glue stick to attach the grass. The wire stems of the felt flowers are taped inside the crown. Easy peasy, if a little messy-looking. (We had to take the photos in the bathroom because she wanted to look in the mirror.)
I also came up with a simpler one using a Goody headband we already had. For this, I had to bend the stems of the flowers to make them a bit shorter. Sylvie put the headband on first and then I simply tucked the flowers inside it.
As always, click on any photo for a closer look.
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These paper replicas of artist Chloe Fleury's favourite San Francisco neighbourhoods look so deceptively simple, I'm imaging I could toss a couple off for the walls of the playroom.
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