Yanomama in motion

The Ocelot (Felis pardalis) is a small cat from Central and South America.
The name "ocelot" comes from the Mexican Aztec word "tlalocelot" meaning field tiger.

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2007/08/yanomama-in-motion.html

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Needle Tatting Tutorial Uploaded !

Needle Tatted Earrings with Beads

It was so hard getting this project off the ground. My Windows Movie Maker maker and I were no longer married, so I had to figure out how to do it myself :-/ and I had to wait until the mood hit (which is the way I've been operating since we split). Anyway, I figured out how to import, drag and drop, add fades, titles, captions and music (which disappeared when I added narration...arrrgh !) and voila ! My second tute in two years. Now that I know how, there will be more to come :-) I prefer making photo sequences because if I screw up while in the middle of a project, I would have to start another one and work up to that point just to re-record the video. Maybe I'll use video with a quick project. However, I have a very vocal parrot who tends to dominate the airwaves whenever he senses something important is going on (aarrgh !). I hope you like the video (don't know why it looks so out of focus...the photos were crystal clear when I was working with them...maybe compression altered them...oh, well).

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2010/07/needle-tatting-tutorial-uploaded.html

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A Twitter and business marriage success story

By Scott Beveridge

PITTSBURGH, Pa. ? Chris Dilla has jokingly referred to herself as a #mediaho on Twitter because of all the press attention she receives for her shrewd skills in the restaurant trade.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Twitter hashtags they are a way to separate conversations from the pack on that social networking site.

Dilla would probably chuckle and if another web junkie used  #socialmediaho in a reference to her since the Pittsburgh online market is flooded in a good way with her brand.

The owner of Bocktown Beer and Grill locations in North Fayette Township and Monaca, Pa., gets it. Social media is free to use and its positive impact on sales is undeniable. It's also helped to land her story in every local print market from the Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pa., to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and even a mention in Forbes.

Tweeting about her craft beers helped this self-made businesswoman experience a 20 percent increase in sales at her first bar during the throes of America?s great recession in 2009. While much of that success is due her restaurant?s good food and beer, it?s also a result of her ability to keep her customers interested and interacting with - or about - Bocktown via Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook.

?I?m not just telling them what the soup of the day is, I?m also reaching out to them with interesting links to craft beer, localism,? Dilla said in September, while presenting at the sixth PodCamp Pittsburgh, a popular conference on social and new media at Point Park University.

?Twitter brings real conversations. Everytime they are out there talking about Bocktown, Bocktown, Bocktown, I am thrilled.?

Many folks come to this event looking like deer stunned by headlights, pressured by their employers to join these online conversations to keep their jobs. Other attendees who have been tweeting since the dark ages of 2007 attend to keep up with new trends or to simply re-energize.

Dilla advice there is worth heeding.

?Don?t be spouting on Facebook about something you should be handling in person,? she said.

She once fired an employee for complaining about the boss on Facebook. The two shared 50 mutual FB friends, and, of course, the bitching quickly got back to Dilla, even though she had been blocked on Facebook from seeing that former worker?s postings. Big Duh.

She?s admittedly has made blunders, and one of the biggest came in the form of her telling a vagina joke on her business Twitter feed when she meant to post it under her personal identity.

?Don?t be afraid. You will make mistakes. There?s always the delete key," she said.

And she follows back those who follow Bocktown on Twitter.

?If it?s a one-way street, it will not work for you.?

Meanwhile, Dilla signed up for Google alerts to make sure she knows each time someone mentions Bocktown on the Internet.

?I link back to it. It?s a great resource. You can do every bit of it from a smartphone.?

And for those hashtags, she abuses them, but in a creative way.

She uses them to express her opinions while also hiding key words like Walmart from spambots.

She also urges her employees to find their voices on Twitter, to join the conversation, increase business and, ultimately, their tips.

?Twitter is the new television. We?re doing a better job on Twitter than some of the major news organizations,? Dilla said.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/12/twitter-and-business-marriage-success.html

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Fun on Rollerskates!

By popular demand, here's the kitty from the set I blogged a few weeks back.

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/08/fun-on-rollerskates.html

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Winter Winds

Mark Dignam and Brooke Annibale, accompanied by the Panther Hollow String Band, perform "Winter Winds" at the WYEP Holiday Hootenanny 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pa.


This concert features great local musicians who alway puts me in the holiday spirit.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/12/winter-winds.html

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From Sketchbook to Canvas

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A homage to Dunkard Creek

If you have the time check out this new art exhibit before it moves on Dec. 8 from California University of Pennsylvania. It's well done.


Click here to read the story. That link will disappear next month.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/11/homage-to-dunkard-creek.html

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Creative Business: Checking In

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10 Ways to Make Art on a Shoestring Budget

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I know it's not vintage...

but I've just fell in love with these:

Go forth and make!

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-know-its-not-vintage.html

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The ?How to Draw? Series, Part Eight: Negative Spaces

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Stitch-along #2

Mid-Year SAL Pillow Case - In progress, originally uploaded by littlewarrior.

Another example of Stitch-along beauty! I know this might sound silly, but this one looks so "juicy", it's making me drool!

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/07/stitch-along-2.html

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Dinner a go-go

Here's how it worked tonight in the dead of winter when six friends who live in close proximity decided to hold a progressive dinner card party:


First stop was hors d'oeuvres, which included humus topped with pine nuts, pictured above, along with sliced sausage, grapes, cheese and a wonderful warm crab and artichoke dip. I dig artichokes. Some of you might have already heard about my artichoke dream. It was a great way to get the party started.


At each stop along the way we played a hand or two of this fun, complicated card game known as hand and foot. And then it was off to the next house.


The second course featured a salad, bruchetta and a different twist on Italian wedding soup, which changed up the ingredients by adding white beans. Delicious.

The main dish at the next house was a baked Rachel sandwich with a most-excellent apple sauerkraut on pumpernickel. Superb.

Then we moved to the final destination for desert starring a lemon and white chocolate cheesecake by Hollyday Cheesecakes. If you live in Pennsylvania's Mon Valley and haven't discovered her deserts it's your loss. It was served with an iced decaffeinated chamomile tea blended with a bottle of V8 V-Fusion Mango Smoothie.

And then everyone - except for me because the last house belongs to me - slid their way home in a dangerous ice storm.


"I think this would work better in the summer," one of the guests remarked.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/01/dinner-go-go.html

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They don't have to be pretty to be historic

The village of Webster, Pa., and its sister town of Donora, in the background, have qualified for listing on the National Register of Historic Districts. (Scott Beveridge photo)

By Scott Beveridge

DONORA, Pa. ? The Donora area defines America's rust belt with its history of blight and economic decline that began before big steel collapsed in the Pittsburgh region in the 1980s.

Webster, across the Monongahela River from the southwestern Pennsylvania borough, has a rough-and-tumble reputation, and its smattering of old houses disappears in a few blinks of the eye in a car's rear-view mirror.

"This town was once thriving," said Diane Martin, a former guide at a Donora museum dedicated to a deadly pollution event in 1948 that contributed to the demise of steel industry here.


"We are trying to make things happen," she said at the 3-year-old Donora Smog Museum.

She, along with members of Donora Historical Society, has new reason to hope for a better image, because state preservation experts believe these two towns qualify for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Districts.

"It doesn't have to be pretty to qualify," said April Frantz, a preservation specialist with the National Register program at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

"We thought that, yes, there was a story there worth telling that it might be something viable as a National Register Historic District," Frantz said.

Webster, in Westmoreland County, is among the oldest settlements in the mid-Mon Valley, having been settled in the late 1700s as an agricultural center. Its economy shifted to boat building, iron ore manufacturing and coal before it was quickly overshadowed by Donora and its sprawling steel and zinc mills built in 1901 and 1915, respectively.

"Webster was an important town," said Charles Stacey of Donora, a member of the local historical society and retired Ringgold School District superintendent.

When the air turned acidic after the zinc smelters went into production, the farms and many buildings across the Mon disappeared as the fumes deteriorated clapboard siding, sickened livestock and killed much of the vegetation.

"As far as I'm concerned, Webster suffered more from the pollution than Donora did because that's where the wind blew everything," Stacey said.

Donora's decline was set in motion by the Donora smog of October 1948, which killed more than 20 people and sickened thousands over a Halloween weekend. The zinc mill was blamed, along with a heavy fog pattern that settled over the Northeast, and U.S. Steel eventually took responsibility for the tragic event, according to settlements in federal lawsuits filed by the victims and their relatives.

The smog became the deadliest air pollution disaster in the United States and the impetus for the first federal clean air laws after Webster residents launched an anti-pollution crusade.


The Donora mills began to shut down in the 1950s, and would, within a decade, become the first major steel operation to close in the United States.

The fact people still have a sustained interest in the smog story is yet another reason why the towns have preliminary approval to be eligible for the National Register, Frantz said.

"It was very dramatic stuff," she said.

She said the PHMC review of the smog story grew out of talks with the state Department of Transportation on the fate of the Donora-Webster Bridge, a century-old span listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

PennDOT closed the bridge in July 2009 because of a weakened deck and has indicated plans to reopen it, pending securing the money for repairs.

A listing on the National Register does not prohibit PennDOT from demolishing the bridge. However, it does require complicated negotiations with the PHMC that require consideration of alternative plans before federal money can be spent on tearing it down.

Stacey said he is among those who want to see the bridge restored and reopened, as its closure is adding more harm to the struggling local economy. The towns don't have a gasoline station or grocery store but do have residents who still would prefer the smog story not be told, Martin said.

Some of them didn't even want the smog museum to open in 2008 in time for the 60th anniversary of the tragedy, Martin said.

"They said, 'Let it die. No one wants to talk about it,'" Martin said. "A lot of people said it didn't even happen."

Donora considered the smog to be a "black mark" on its reputation, added Sandy Mansmann, a coordinator with Washington County History and Landmarks Foundation.

"For the young people who come out of the Valley, it's especially part of their history because their families were involved and they should know about it," Mansmann said.

The PHMC study of the towns is still under review, Frantz said in Feb. 2011.

It could take years for a nomination to the National Register to materialize. An eligibility determination, though, affords such districts the same federal and state protection as if they were on the register.The protection makes it difficult for public agencies to demolish such structures when using federal money for redevelopment.

(This article first appeared in February 2011 in the Observer-Reporter newspaper in Washington, Pa.)

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/01/they-dont-have-to-be-pretty-to-be.html

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Custom Order from Facebook Friend !

Recently, a fellow "Coco-nut" (fan of Conan O'Brien ) ordered a pair of my Starflower Earrings . She wanted me to choose the colors and her only requirement was that the two colors be contrasting. I tried to elicit more info from her, and finally established that she likes metals, so I picked out a copper and gunmetal color scheme. The plan worked ! She loves them ! Whew ! Plus, I included a strip of stickers I made using my beaded Conan logo from the old "Late Night" show...she loved those too :-)

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/01/custom-order-from-facebook-friend.html

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From Sketchbook to Canvas

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The nearly lost art of flocking Christmas trees

Mike Joseph of Joseph's Nursery & Garden Center in Monessen, Pa., explains the Christmas tree flocking process at his family-owned business. (Scott Beveridge photo)


By Scott Beveridge


MONESSEN, Pa.  Last week I was interviewing a corporate executive from the Richmond, Va., area when, while making small talk, we discovered we had both grown up in the same region on the Monongahela River Valley.


He in Brownsville, Pa., and I, in Webster, a small Westmoreland County village 19 miles north of his Fayette County hometown.


Then he surprised me by saying he would drive five hours this way the next day to purchase a live, flocked Christmas tree at Joseph's Nursery & Garden Center in nearby Monessen.


"They're hard to find. You can't purchase them anywhere in Virginia," he said.


I hadn't seen or thought about such trees since I was a kid in the 1960s, when they were sort of popular and sold fluffy white or in pastel shades of pink and blue.


So yesterday I went in search of Joseph's, about four miles south of my house, a business I was familiar with only in name. I went there with my aunt to see its flocked trees and also purchase a regular fresh-cut tree for my living room.


The GPS app in my Droid inaccurately took me to 921 Rostraver Road in nearby Belle Vernon, past a Walmart and an Eat'n Park. A quick smartphone check there on Google maps directed me back to Monessen to a street entrance that had long ago been allowed to become overgrown with grass.


A little exploring on the hill there eventually put me on Rostraver Street and en route to Joseph's, a business sandwiched between houses in this decaying former steel town neighborhood.


Mike Joseph immediately greeted us and showed us his perfectly manicured trees grown on the family farm in Uniontown. It didn't take much urging for him to show us into the barn to see the flocked trees.


"People, if they've never seen it before, they think it's something new," Joseph said.


The flocking business, though, has been around since the 1930s, he said.


He went on to explain these trees are sprayed with ground cotton and rayon, mixed with water and glue, materials that swell when they dry over the course of two days.


When dry they are beautiful and sell for about $160.


What's even more beautiful about this business is the friendly customer service. Joseph and his father quickly bound my tree with cotton fishnet and tied it on the roof of my car.


It's no wonder Joseph's has survived decades in business, even in an area with devastated downtown business districts and big box stores breathing down its back.


The family defines all the reasons why it's good to shop local.

More examples of flocked pine at Joseph's Nursery & Garden Center in Monessen, Pa. (Scott Beveridge photo)

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/12/nearly-lost-art-of-flocking-christmas.html

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The "How to Draw" Series, Part Nine: Three Little Tricks

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Saturday Quotable

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You wonder how we ever survived.....

(Photo by Katie Roupe, Observer-Reporter)

By Scott Beveridge

One of our photographers at the Observer-Reporter last week was telling two writers, including myself, she had been criticized by a reader for taking a photo of two children riding bicycles without helmets on a residential sidewalk.

?You wonder how we ever survived,? responded a 50-something colleague, recalling how we never wore such head gear while riding bikes as children.

After thinking about it, though, we laughed and then agreed we likely have a bit of brain damage from suffering many bumps and bruises during childhood accidents.

We came from an era when many parents also smoked cigarettes around their kids without any concern about the health affects of second-hand smoke.

I took the conversation to a higher extreme by saying I grew up in the 1960s surrounded by steelworkers, most of whom could belt back boilermakers with the same ease it took them to down glasses of water.

Many of our parents never batted an eyelid while stuffing as many as 10 kids in the back of a station wagon before taking off for a two-hour drive with a stinking drunk dad behind the wheel.

Needless to say we began those road trips from the Monongahela River Valley, a southwestern Pennsylvania landscape peppered with blast furnaces spewing filthy smoke into the air.

We didn?t have smoke detectors in our houses or seat belts, let alone child safety or booster seats to protect young children in cars.


Hell. Frozen pizzas back then came on disposable asbestos cooking sheets. We kids used to stand around the stove and tear those pans apart, daring them to set aflame over the kitchen stove's gas burners.


We also went to learn in Fellsburg, Pa., at Lebanon Elementary School, whose floors were tarred with asbestos tiles and walls were layered with thick coats of pea-green World War II surplus lead paint. I swear my eyes still hurt from having spent endless hours staring at those ugly walls.


Speaking of school, my mother today might be in jail, facing Children and Youth Services for the way in which she sometimes sent us hitchhiking to school when we missed the bus during junior and senior high.


Yet she never permitted my brothers or me out the front door in the morning on school days without our repeating the phrase, "Please God watch over me." If one of us forgot, to the door she ran shouting, "Get your $@*! ass back up her and say it." As a working mom in an era when that wasn't cool, I think it was a crutch she held onto while feeling helpless to protect us at her office.

Certainly I?m not advocating the return to those dangerous carefree ways of the past, even though I still refuse to wear a helmet while riding my bicycle on the trail.

I confess to worrying at times about the affects of cell phone radiation levels and forgetting that it?s illegal now in this state to text while driving.

Like a good citizen I buckle up before putting my Ford sedan in gear and also remember to change the battery once a year in the smoke detector outside my bedroom door at home.

If there are two things that two decades of chasing spot news for this newspaper have taught me are those devices almost always save lives.

But come on. Those cute kids in the photo, above, are riding with training wheels.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-wonder-how-we-ever-survived.html

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New Year's Resolution

Ben Hardt and Kelly Tobias, accompanied by New Shout, preform "New Year's Resolution" at the WYEP Holiday Hootenanny 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-years-resolution.html

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Solstice Sun

Getting used to seasonal shifts in daylight hours has been one of the hardest things to adapt to since moving to Europe. Although I spent many years in New Zealand when I was young, I lived near the equator long enough to develop a preference for daylight hours of equal length all year round. Still, being dragged comatose around the countryside by the dog early every morning means I'm still guaranteed to get a small dose of sunshine every day.

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2007/12/solstice-sun.html

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Stitch-along #2

Mid-Year SAL Pillow Case - In progress, originally uploaded by littlewarrior.

Another example of Stitch-along beauty! I know this might sound silly, but this one looks so "juicy", it's making me drool!

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/07/stitch-along-2.html

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Mural Painter Seeks Donors

Through my Brazilian percussion band, Batala , I have connections to so many different people, events and projects. One of my Batala sisters passed on this plea for funds to help mural painter, Joel Bergner create a mural to raise awareness about domestic violence in our communities. I checked out his paintings and immediately fell in love with the bold colors and simplicity of line. I hope some of my friends will also appreciate his style and the seriousness of this issue and help see this project to its completion. If you would like to donate, please see the link in the upper corner of my blog and thanks so much !

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2010/03/mural-painter-seeks-donors.html

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Etsy Front Page Happy Dance !

front page my girl with dragon tatoo treasury july 2010, originally uploaded by crownrose gems.

Fellow Etsy Beadweaver, Crownrose Gems, posted this treasury a few days ago and today it spent a short time on the front page of Etsy.com ! My Venezia bracelet is part of the collection which is based on the popular Millenium trilogy by Swedish author, Stieg Larsson. I wouldn't have know about my front page appearance if it hadn't been for Statsy.com. I totally forgot about the fact that I linked it to my Facebook profile and besides generating an email to me, it automatically posted to Facebook ! Very handy indeed !

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2010/07/etsy-front-page-happy-dance.html

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Triangle Earrings

I love to make beaded triangles as do many beadweavers, but when I submit items for jurying at Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, there is a limit on what we call "like items." In other words, don't submit production work, or work that is so similar, it looks like you just cranked out a batch of the same design even if using different colors...making it a little tough on the beaded triangle addict. Hence this design which I came up with around midnight, the night before jurying. I turned the ol' triangle on its edge, added a moonstone oval drop bead and voila, a new design (for me at least). This pair went in the gallery, but I can make another just like it in case someone orders from my Etsy shop...did I mention, I LOVE TRIANGLES ???

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/08/triangle-earrings.html

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Retro kitchen delights

For as long as I can remember I've had a real weakness for retro/vintage crockery. Left to my own devices and without thought or care for life essentials such as food, bills and rent, I could quite happily part with significant chunks of my budget on more vintage kitchen accessories than I could possibly ever hope to use in a lifetime.

I guess part of my love of pieces such as these is the sense of childhood nostalgia they evoke. The colours, patterns and images prevalent in pieces by Hornsea, Staffordshire,Denby, Turi Gramstad Oliver and the like are a tangible link to grandmothers china cabinets, fathers mugs, old storybooks. It is a style and form of artwork that must have imprinted on me at an early age, and that I still respond to with a feeling of lighthearted joy.
It is with no small measure on happiness that I can claim not to remember the last time I bought a 'new' item of crockery, and that my kitchen shelves are bursting with a mismatched assortment of flea market finds.
I plan to start experimenting with some of these design elements in a series of sketches/collages soon.

1. Ceramic pestle and mortar,2.Creamer,3.Pots,4.Owly tea,
5.Tea for 3,6.? 7. Hornsea mug collection, 8. Hornsea mugs ,9.?

Apologies for the couple I forgot to make note of....

Loads more amazing finds in this groups: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagehousewares/pool/
and this blog
http://hisforhomeblog.com/

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2010/07/retro-kitchen-delights.html

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From Sketchbook to Canvas

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Winter Winds

Mark Dignam and Brooke Annibale, accompanied by the Panther Hollow String Band, perform "Winter Winds" at the WYEP Holiday Hootenanny 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pa.


This concert features great local musicians who alway puts me in the holiday spirit.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2011/12/winter-winds.html

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Crazy eyes

Donkeys always make such easy photography subjects. Odds on they'll wander up to the fenceline, pull a stupid face and the rest is up to you...
One of the problems with photography in England is the extreme narrowness of a lot of the rural roads. While I'm driving around with one eye on the road and the other on potential photo ops, I need a third eye to spot any potential spot where I can pull up. The size of some of the roads here can make driving a very interesting gamble...

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2008/02/crazy-eyes.html

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Retro kitchen delights

For as long as I can remember I've had a real weakness for retro/vintage crockery. Left to my own devices and without thought or care for life essentials such as food, bills and rent, I could quite happily part with significant chunks of my budget on more vintage kitchen accessories than I could possibly ever hope to use in a lifetime.

I guess part of my love of pieces such as these is the sense of childhood nostalgia they evoke. The colours, patterns and images prevalent in pieces by Hornsea, Staffordshire,Denby, Turi Gramstad Oliver and the like are a tangible link to grandmothers china cabinets, fathers mugs, old storybooks. It is a style and form of artwork that must have imprinted on me at an early age, and that I still respond to with a feeling of lighthearted joy.
It is with no small measure on happiness that I can claim not to remember the last time I bought a 'new' item of crockery, and that my kitchen shelves are bursting with a mismatched assortment of flea market finds.
I plan to start experimenting with some of these design elements in a series of sketches/collages soon.

1. Ceramic pestle and mortar,2.Creamer,3.Pots,4.Owly tea,
5.Tea for 3,6.? 7. Hornsea mug collection, 8. Hornsea mugs ,9.?

Apologies for the couple I forgot to make note of....

Loads more amazing finds in this groups: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagehousewares/pool/
and this blog
http://hisforhomeblog.com/

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2010/07/retro-kitchen-delights.html

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Green Droplets Tatted Necklace

Green Droplets Tatted Necklace, originally uploaded by ambrosianbeads.

My Mom's birthday was this week so I decided to try a pattern that was in my head to make a necklace for her in her favorite colors. After some tweaking of the stitch count, I got it to shape around the neck nicely, and used exactly the number of fringe beads I had on hand. This pattern was so successful, I think I will make a video tutorial when I'm in the mood.

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/09/green-droplets-tatted-necklace.html

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owly

1. Hoot
2. You and Me
3. Owl on apples
4.Owl
5. Tulips
6. Blue pattern owl
7. Owl
8. Under my wing
9. Peagreen shop

Owls. I like them

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2010/07/owly.html

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