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Some Etsy Joy

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Yesterday I was buzzing with ideas and so excited to be planning new projects. I managed to bag a little something on ebay that I am going to use as the starting point for my next piece. There may even be a collaborative project germinating, more on this soon I expect! Today of course things are a little flat, impossible to fly everyday, so I am going to concentrate on planning Ishi’s third birthday celebrations. I can reveal that so far a desire has been expressed for chocolate AND carrot cake, meerkats, a big boy bike and candles, really the cake and candles are the most important element for our son! Happily I am able to meet all of these wishes, including the meerkats as Durrell have just opened a new desert landscape enclosure with a meerkat dome, yes, you can get face to face! Have no doubt that I will be posting a self-indulgent/proud mummy something here next week. Ishi’s birthday is also after all a time for me and Adam to marvel at the fact of his existence and I always enjoy reliving the events of Ishi’s birth, it is a bonding time for all of us. I hope you enjoy the gathering of Etsy wonders I have prepared for you, I can feel a little inspiration creeping in looking at them. Especially true of The Dream Stays With Me print (above) from Gretchen Mist, beautiful colours, they sing, I could gaze upon them all day.

Butterfly Gladness Garland from Royal Buffet

Laptop Bag from Track & Field

Scandinavian Red Hare from Dee Beale

Mr Plumm from Holli

Across – Felt cuff from Drawing Room

Crawler Pincushion-sea green from Alleluja. I am obsessed with this shop! See that little pendant in the middle I have requested one with bunny ears, I can’t wait until it is ready! I love these tiny darlings so much here are a few more images.

Invincible Summer Anthology Vol. II from Spinster Summer

1950’s Housewife Dress in Pink and Grey from Jess James Jake

Nature Lover Necklace in Rock Maple from Naomi Murrell

Hello There Pencils from Simple Song

Early Bird Gets the Worm from BROOKLYNrehab

Flower Quilted Dress – Original 70s Vintage from Celapiu

Ceramic Deer from Fruit Fly Pie

1920s clip board from Blue Bell Bazaar

la dentelle needlebook 2 from Field Guided

Mr. Susan Is Angry Because Deep Down, He’s Really Sad from Mon Petit Fantome

Birch Bark flower vase or votive candle holder from New Hampshire Wood Creations

VINTAGE ISSEY MIYAKE ABSTRACT GREEN SCARF from Ramona West

Trilobite Triptych from Donkey Wolf

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Paola Zakimi

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Captivating is the first word that jumped into my mind when I began to think about Pola’s beautiful handmade dolls, illustrations and paintings. There is a touching ‘knowing’ quality to her girls and young children, they would tell us their stories if they could. Let’s imagine ourselves in Argentina and enjoy spending some time in the company of the amazing Pola.

Tell us a little about yourself, the media you work with and your creative process.

“I live in the middle of Argentina, in a little town full of green with my little daugther and my husband, Cooper and Toto (my dogs) and Juno (my black cat).”

“I love painting as much drawing with ink, watercolors, pencil, acrylics, oil…ok! everything you can imagine. I have been drawing since I was a child so for me it is very natural.”

“Also, I studied Arts Sculpture and I enjoy creating art dolls so much, with papermache or air clay, which is now my favourite medium because it is super fast, clean and you could do anything with this material. My creative process is quite simple, I’m always sketching.”

“I have a lot of notebooks and I use these to keep all the things which cross my mind. About my dolls, I made the first steps with the sketches, then color comes along with the idea and the personality comes when I finish the head and the eyes. I love old fabrics, so delicate and soft, the little embroidery, I always try to use recycled fabric and I dye it myself, with herbs.”


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From where do you draw your inspiration: music, books, people, nature etc?

“All you named! My little one is so special, she is a great inpiration when I draw. People too, stories and works, how they look in a photo, eyes… from there I start to think and imagine.”

“I love music but when I work I concentrate so much that I don’t listen. So, maybe I spend all the day with the same record and I didn’t know! Yes, I live in a bubble all day up in the sky!”

If you could talk briefly about the background to one of your pieces which would you choose and why? Please tell us the story behind the piece.

“I have a special love for my last dolls, Elo and the little ones Julia and Carolina. Elo is different to the rest of my dolls and is the start of the new dolls to came, because she is more elaborate in the articulations. The process was diferent because I used Ball jointed parts in the arms and legs, she is not a Ball Jointed doll, but has some elements of BJs. The most important is the hair, usually my girls have painted hair and Elo has sheep hair…real!”

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“About Julia and Carolina, they are my first animal girls and I love to make a little doll you could hang on your walls.”

Find Pola in all of these places:
Holli Etsy Shop
Flickr
Blog

Oh, and if you look to the right you will find a direct link to Pola’s wonderful Etsy shop!

Thank you so very much Pola for delighting us with your words, how fantastic it would be to come and join you in your sky-bubble for a little while.

Next week we are going to meet someone whose work inspires incredible devotion, it is fantastical and quite wee! Any guesses?

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A Very Merry Etsy Birthday

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

The title gives away the age of this post or at least its inception. I have added a few things since I put this one together weeks ago. I have missed my Etsy roundups and my plush gatherings too. I have collected enough super fantastic softy images for my next installment but need to find a drop of time to put it all together. When I began the LL&O blog in January I promised myself that I wouldn’t use it as a forum for my whines and gripes (I can moan with the best of them. Adam and I have a ‘pretend’ production company called Cross & Grimm). I have found lately that it is becoming a little message board from which to proclaim my run of illness (scroll to the end for an update!) and lack of time-urgh! I am sure that many of you will relate to the inexorable gush of minutes and the notebooks filled with unfulfilled plans and schemes. There are so many things I would like to do with the blog, a longed for typography overhaul, giveaways, collaborations, videos, I would like to offer gratis ad space and become more active in the art/craft/handmade community. Oh so many dizzy ideas! Slow growth and longevity are perhaps the words I should be holding fast to, Lou Lou & Oscar is so very dear to me both as a project (sanity saver) and as a means to connect with truly lovely and remarkable people. Slow down Miss Hare. Ok, enough venting, feast your peepers on these goodies!

I’d Rather Be Happy With You Again print (above) from The Good Machinery.

All Secrets Sleep In Winter Clothes by Ali Aschman

Mid Century Fukagawa Plates from Monkeys Always Look

All My Peeps Out At Sea Print from Firefluff

Crow Kitchen Towel from Oola Designs

Geometry Set Jotter from Present and Correct

Twin Birches Pillow from Rural Diaspora

Andrea ring from Acts Of Kindness. Inspirational and so pretty, “Let Laughter Save The Day”, I couldn’t agree more!

Teardrop Pendant by Cathy Cullis.

Friendship Postcard from Enna.

Bugs purse from Bonspiel

Love Whale Necklace from Gypsy Rabbit.

I have had my eye on this Wooden Deer Wall Sticker pretty much since I joined Etsy, I am just waiting to redecorate! Available from Enna.

Chalkboard Flower Pot from Moxi Sisters

Nesting Material Print from Annarubyking

Warm Wishes Mug from Wee Gallery

Laundry Day In Dog Town Print from Ice Bear

Love, love, love this Collect and Carry Pouch from Forest Bound

Vintage Salt and Pepper Shaker from Shopworthy

Yes please Mr Easter Bunny, Nested Number 1 from Wunderlust.

A girl can dream of owning a Hiding Places Locket from Tiny Happy.

Not to eat, Egg Brooch from Vanilla Bug

Nautical Amelia Top in Liberty’s Mirabelle by Dear Birthday

1853 Hand Coloured Print from Slinkymalinkicat

La Lapin Brooch from Tilly Bloom

Cupcake Ring from Brooklyn Rehab

Hansel & Gretel Doll Suitcase from Shop 66

Oh Be True original painting by Lisa Congdon

Mellow Yellow Dress from Sarah Seven

Wood and Porcelain Pendant from Poodlebreath

Many & The Eucalyptus Tree print from Holli

Please Put It Away from Iviva Embroiders

Lace Print Reusable Sandwich Wrapper by ChezSucreChez

Miniature Girl from Ashley G and Drew

Porcelain Cup from Stepanka.

Yummy goodies! Ishi and me are both doing quite a bit better, we can’t seem to fight off the coughs and snivels, but we are upright-hooray! Thank you so much to everyone who left get well wishes, it is truly appreciated and helped beat the bugs I’m sure. I am hoping to wade into my inbox today, I have felt so disconnected and have missed my lovely friends terribly, I will also be trying to meet a project deadline, only a few days to catch up. I will reveal all very soon. There is of course this week’s interview to come, a bit of a Brooklyn theme for the next two weeks, a little hint! I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter break, hands up who never wants to see chocolate again?! XXX

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