Bear Bahoochie

Arty inspiration

As seen at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ray Yoshida – Who Where what?  It’s carefully cut up comic pages. Genius.

I also saw this and presuamably thought I’d be able to read the signature on my return (I couldn’t) it’s a weaving of a Chinese newspaper and The New York Times.

There was also a bunch of really neat furniture including this corrugated cardboard chair by Frank Gehry.

Wisconsin Crafting 2

Wisconsin is the dairy state and the love of cheese and cows is impressive. We saw this giant mouse outside Joe’s Cheese House.

Also located outside Joe’s Cheese House was a cow made from recycled materials

Then just over the border into the UP we saw this Easter themed version! I wish I could go at Christmas I’m hoping they dress it up as Santa.

Hurcheon

Lynne asked me to make this hedgehog for her to give as a graduation present. It was a tad trial and error but i used mohair for the spines and needle felted the hedgehog into that.

Albanwr

This was made for a graduation present. He’s wearing a backpack with Diet Coke and a book inside. The name is Welsh (as was the university) and means ‘from Scotland’.

Wisconsin Related Crafting

My Easter trip to Wisconsin was accompanied by a travel log which is bursting with what we did (mainly food, beer and friends!)

However I wanted something to have on display to remind me of the fun (and since a digital photo frame isn’t quite within my budget yet) I went old school with a pin board.

We’d kept bottle caps from the beer and soda we drank (from Wisconsin based breweries mainly Horny Goat, New Glarus and Sprecher) and I glued these onto drawing pins so I could use them to decorate the board.

I colour copied some of the items from our trip since the originals are in the travel journal (or in Tom’s case a large bag and unsorted).  We kept a bunch of things mainly tickets, maps, food labels and similar – just stuff you can’t get at home.

I also marked on the map places we’d been or where things were from – i.e. Door County cherries which we never went to see but do feature in Sprecher’s Ravin’ Red.

The truth…

Sock Monster Take 2

Latest sock monster creation.