Tracy Lord's Wedding Ladder: a book of sorts

2 days ago I was working along Lord Street when I picked up a few discarded wedding magazines. Now wedding magazines have lovely thick paper, and gorgeous muted colours.
So, since I'm currently obsessed with the form of Jacob's Ladder, I used some of the pages and pushed it a little further.
This particular piece is in fact 21 Jacob's Ladders in various sizes.  Not perfect, but quite pleasing!
I called it Tracy Lord's wedding ladder because I found the paper in Lord Street, but Lord's wedding sounds weird. But Tracy Lord was the Katherine Hepburn character in Philadelphia Story.

Grimm's Fairy Tales: jacob's ladders

This set of Jacob's Ladder "books" is packaged in an old game box.
All of the books are made from Grimm's Fairy Tales (again rescued from a neighbours fence). The coloured ladder is from an Alice in Wonderland movie poster which blew into Anna Warren's yard.

My friend Anna

This is my friend Anna Warren's blog.
Just look at her beautiful drawings and paintings and miniatures and prints...

Day of The Triffids: Reinvented

I picked up a copy of the Day of the Triffids on someone's front fence recently.
It's always a pleasure to repurpose something familiar, which would otherwise have ended up in the garbage.
Paper Made (not a great book) caused me to remember the Jacob's Ladder form. Or as I think of it "how we made crepe paper streamers when I was in primary school".
So then I ran a few Triffid pages through my colour laser printer, and Jacob's Laddered that, and here's the outcome.

 

Someone who actually completed their sketchbook!!

Click to see scratchyas' sketchbook based on fortune cookie fortunes. It's part of the sketchbook project.

I bought a sketch book to put in my own to the Project: but I cannot find it, as the deadline looms..
there is always next year!

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At last, an artwork to match the curtains

At last, you can get an artwork to match the curtains:
Artworks customized by buyers before purchase

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10 Moleskine Journals From Some Of The Most Interesting Creatives Alive | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

I want!
2 | 10 Moleskine Journals From Some Of The Most Interesting Creatives Alive | Co.Design: business + innovation + design:

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Microscopic Plant Seeds

lovely!

8 | The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds:

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Beautiful paper things

Go see the "design snobs" christmas list. I like the paper vases (see right)
The typography scrabble set  (second one down)
And the knit it yourself runners (third one down).

Go see the link to see more and read about them all.

Ricardo Lanzarini - tiny drawings on cigarette papers

 I was enchanted by Ricardo Lanzarini's tiny drawings in books of cigarette papers recently at the AGNSW as part of the Biennale.
Ricardo Lanzarini

The photos on this page were taken with my camera.

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Words for Jane

Exhibited in Victoria in 2012, this piece was made from the same 2d piece as these.

This book is now in Tristan Landers' collection.

I made a double concertina.

Found a box (mobile phone? watch?) 

The velvet ribbon serves to get the piece easily in and out of the box.

added a few buttons. Sewed a few bits.

Sewed on some pockets.

Filled them with some good words. To find the good words I browse magazines and cut out words (like here "favourite songs) that I liked. 

This particular button I bought to refresh the buttons on my scarlet overcoat which I wore for nearly 20 years. 

This giant button used to be on a big red coat I bought for work. 

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