{"id":5827,"date":"2012-10-01T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:43:31","slug":"house-on-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/house-on-the-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"House on the Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Chicago Renegade, my husband and I drove into Wisconsin to visit the House On The Rock<\/a>. I’m not sure I’ve ever been in Wisconsin before- it is beautiful even though they’ve had a terrible drought all summer. We were lucky enough to be there a few weeks after they’d finally had rain and although the corn was only about 3 ft high, everything was very green and pretty.<\/p>\n

This is the display in one of the the Ladies Restrooms!<\/p>\n

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I was initially confused about what kind of collection I was looking at. It is a wide variety of stuff. Some is rare, special and amazing, some looked very close to junk to me- especially when I was looking at something I know about. I readjusted my expectations.<\/p>\n

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There was an amazing collection of automata, mostly musical- from individual self-playing instruments to whole orchestras!<\/p>\n

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I was saddened by how many were in poor repair. Visitors can buy tokens and choose which they’d like to see in action. One of the first that we tried was a mechanical banjo. There were 4 “fingers” but only 2 of them were working. It was terrible. Other ones that we tried were wonderful in spite of the broken bits, but I really wish someone cared enough to spend money on keeping these treasures going.<\/p>\n

Wonderful collection of circus posters in the cafe.<\/p>\n

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A player piano with an interesting way of storing the scroll- definitely worth 50\u00c2\u00a2 to see that in action.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the scale of some of these “music boxes”.<\/p>\n

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This one filled an entire room- And it wasn’t the only one!<\/p>\n

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There were a number of these planters out in the parking lots. I’m not sure you can tell how big these are- well over 10 ft tall I think.<\/p>\n

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And next I’ll post some photos of the NIADA doll conference and my too short visit to Maker Faire.<\/p>\n

Thanks for all the nice notes- really I’m fine. I mostly wanted to let people know why things were going to be quiet around here. We all need time to reflect.<\/p>\n

Currently I am planning to schedule some classes in the next few months- I’m thinking that it would be fun to focus on projects that people would like to make for holiday gifts- little felt ornaments, owls, tiny worlds… and if I can figure out about sewing machines, the fish. I’m wondering about weekends versus weekdays. Also, just a reminder, I am happy to schedule a class for any group at your convenience if you have a least 4 people ready to go.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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