Shadow Shot Sunday-Aug 5, 2012-Gourd birdhouse

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This is a gourd birdhouse I made for my daughter, Tina, a few years ago for her birthday!

 ~Sitting on my shadowy window shelf, before I gave it to her~

I think Sunflowers are perfect designs for gourd art and I did several of these !

I wish I could find time to get back into my crafting again!

Junie

Pink Saturday~July21, 2012~ Christmas in July??

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It's time again for
 "Pink Saturday!"

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In the past I was deeply into crafting and my favorite things to make were Christmas figures-especially Santas.

Here are a couple examples of what I liked to do ~ and they just happen to be in Pink!

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 This santa is all original papier mache'! By all original I mean no molds were used in the creating of these figures, so, even though I made a LOT of these, no 2 were ever the same.

 
I made them in different sizes too. This one is just over 12 inches tall. He is one of just a few that I dressed in pink!

  :)  Even in pink, this guy is no sissy! Look at that heavy bag of toys on his back!!

 (I made this one especially for my own home-to use in my rose/pink living room.)

 I signed and dated all that I made and I see this was #3 - in 1991.

 
These next ones are painted gourd santas.

The first one is a medium size hanging santa, which I use at a window with lights all around him. Most of my gourds I painted red but this one is a rose/pink!

The others here are made from small gourds-ornament size!

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Oh!
  I also made some cone and papier mache' trees. I decorated this one with tiny pink roses. It's 12 inches tall!

~My Christmas in July post~ 

Junie

Pink Saturday-Feb 25, 2012 ~Brastoff

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A few years back I 'discovered'

and  bought some collector pieces of the talented artist/designer, Sascha Brastoff!

(1918~1993)

This is an ashtray, in shades of pink and gray. This is the most recent one I've bought ( of several)

 and fits well for my "Pink Saturday" addition.

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This is about the artist:

Sascha Brastoff - a mid-century modern DaVinci
by Steve Conti



Back in the 1950s, bigger was always better. Cars became longer, fins higher and hair more bouffant. This was the perfect climate for a larger than life artist, ceramist, dancer, designer, sculptor and talk of the town: Sascha Brastoff. Screen legend and noted art aficionado Edward G. Robinson proclaimed, "Sascha is a modern day Cellini; a contemporary DaVinci." Sascha Brastoff had "arrived" in Hollywood...

Actually, Sascha arrived in Cleveland, Ohio (in 1918) as Samuel Brostofsky. An early aptitude for art lead him to The Clay Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. With fellow alumni Louise Nevelson and Isamu Noguchi, he concentrated on his primary love for highly imaginative and detailed sculpting. Mass production of ashtrays and decorative household items were farthest in his mind. I feel some of the finest work he ever created was during these early years (1938 to 1945.) When not at school, Sascha made a living designing window displays for the famed Macy's Department Store in Herald Square. In 1940, his first (and only) one man show (at the Clay Club's Sculpture Gallery), showcased 37 original hand sculpted terra cotta "Whimsies." A huge success, as all of these sold to prestigious New York collectors. Today, only three have known to survive (Sascha's family retained "Europa and the Bull"; Brastoff biographer Steve Conti has "Mermaid" and "Tumblers.")

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Junie