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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 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.
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.
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’.
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.
Latest sock monster creation.
