{"id":1123,"date":"2009-01-06T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2009-01-06T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:18:30","slug":"starting-the-new-year-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/starting-the-new-year-right\/","title":{"rendered":"starting the new year right"},"content":{"rendered":"

2009 isn’t even one week old yet, but so far it’s a good one! On Sunday I invited Tracey<\/a> over for a studio visit. She had commented on my blog a few times and I knew she lived near me. We got into an email conversation and I knew we had to get together. We did that wonderful blog friend thing where the conversation starts where so many other conversations would end. So much is a given when talking to another art\/craft blogger- like how great the online community is and how clueless so many other people are about why we do it! We can move right on to other important stuff.<\/p>\n

First, Tracey brought me this wonderful gift inspired by the interview in Craft magazine-<\/p>\n

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I’ve hung it up over my desk. Here<\/a> is her description of the inspiration for the piece and also her report of the visit. I think it is too funny that she photographed all the doll bits that never got finished…<\/p>\n

We talked photography (among other things)- she is doing some amazing work with ttv<\/a>– through the viewfinder<\/a> (tutorial if you are interested). It sounded intriguing and, of course, somewhere in this house I knew I had one of those cameras where you look down into the viewfinder. I’m pretty sure I bought it at a yardsale with a red leather camera bag that looked like a child’s doctor kit, in the early ’80s. Yep, there it was on the shelf in the living room. I tried looking through the viewfinder and it was so dirty I couldn’t really see anything.<\/p>\n

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I took out a few screws and cleaned it up as well as I could.<\/p>\n

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It is now significantly better and here are some photos I took from off the back porch-<\/p>\n

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Everything looks so spooky!<\/p>\n

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not so sure what to do about the grid in the viewfinder.<\/p>\n

I think this uncropped one is my favorite-<\/p>\n

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Lots of fun but probably not going to pull me away from dollmaking.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I had fun outing. A local fashion designer, Deborah Parker<\/a>, invited me over to her studio to go through her scraps and see if there was anything I could use. Yes! I came home with 2 large bags full of wool, silk, linen, and some little pieces of cotton. Delicious! There are some very inspiring pieces in that pile- like, have you ever heard of wool corduroy? I hadn’t but now I have some to play with- it looks like perfect hair fabric to me.<\/p>\n

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Hurray- what a great way to start the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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