a view of maddy's various visual idiosyncratic ideas and inspirations - as requested

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Tuesday 22 April 2014

"Try-it-Tuesdays"!


 

Hey there girls! A lot of fun to be had here on tuesdays 10-12. 
We're back and on task. Playing with paper, fabrics, inks, yarns...and more. All ideas welcome. Come for a coffee and some inspiration!

 Next week: handmade fans... 

Saturday 12 April 2014

Ashes to pencils!

According to The Independent newspaper the other day -

"Keen scribblers can continue writing in the afterlife by having their ashes transformed into a set of pencils. One human body yields on average about 240 pencils..."

And on looking into this a bit more, I found:
"Nadine Jarvis has created the ultimate afterlife memento for authors and scribblers everywhere. Coming in a flat wooden box, Jarvis creates a set of pencils from human ash. The special container allows only one pencil to be withdrawn at a time.
The pencil is sharpened on the side of the box, which holds the ash sharpenings. When the last pencil is used, the box becomes an urn, holding the remaining ashes." 

And check out these amazing pencils by sculptor Dalton Ghetti....