{"id":9221,"date":"2015-07-24T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2015-07-24T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:23:50","slug":"portland-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/portland-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland (west)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an amazing time!<\/p>\n

I saw beautiful dolls at the NIADA conference<\/a>–<\/p>\n

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Harriet by Shelley Thornton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ima Naroditskaya<\/a>‘s beautiful doll.<\/p>\n

I listened to amazing people give inspiring talks including- Ronnie Burkett<\/a>\u00a0 His talk made me desperate to see one of his performances and guess what? He will be in NYC at the end of September! Time for another NYC trip!<\/p>\n

Toby Froud<\/a>–<\/p>\n

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And Georgina Hayns<\/a> from Laika Studio who brought some of the puppets for us to examine, up close. So so awe-inspiring! (Are you noticing the puppet theme?)<\/p>\n

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But that wasn’t the best thing. The best thing is that I internet-know George. She has bought some of my pieces and we’ve corresponded. She invited me to visit Laika<\/a> and see how a hive of 400 people come together for 2+ years to make a fantastic movie. Honestly, as a one-person show, it was hard to wrap my head around! I saw so many interesting and beautiful things- and now I have to wait more than a year to see how it all comes together!<\/p>\n

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She took me around to some Portland fabric stores. We went to Bolt Fabric<\/a>, The Mill End Store<\/a> and the Pendleton Outlet<\/a>– where they were having a sale, how lucky am I?! I got some good stuff- for the dolls, for clothing for me, and for random projects. Cottons-<\/p>\n

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And wools except that purple one is silk-<\/p>\n

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She asked me to teach while I was there, so on the Sunday, a group of friends came together and made ornaments. Thanks for the Instagram photo Vera<\/a>! (since I didn’t manage to get any pics.)<\/p>\n

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Okay, what else? I met up with a friend of a friend and now I have a new friend<\/a>! I also met up with Diane<\/a> who I saw last time I was in Portland<\/a>, so many years ago. Time flies but we stay connected- thank you internet. And I went to the Button Emporium<\/a> of course. Most of these things came from there (except rick rack from Bolt).<\/p>\n

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So yes, it was great. I hope it isn’t another 7 years before I get back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an amazing time! I saw beautiful dolls at the NIADA conference– Harriet by Shelley Thornton. Ima Naroditskaya‘s beautiful doll. I listened to amazing people give inspiring talks including- Ronnie Burkett\u00a0 His talk made me desperate to see one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[434,223,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}