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Saturday, May 31, 2014

 

SATURDAY INQUISITION BLOGGING

the ladder rack. a liitle extra, buring the armpits + legs.

 

april drive

 

arne pic

big boy

 

arne in mcgregor

 

amped car


 

ebay objects

 

estate sale tour

 

fall drive

 

hi-way harry drive

 

feline exploitation 

 

lands & peoples

 

vintage lure

 

march drive

 

photo album

 

SATURN'S DAY COOKIE STAMPER BLOGGING

Friday, May 30, 2014

 

wild animal

pallas cat

 

politics

boy he was shmart

 

estate sale tour

 


























ebay item


 
 341 object
OLD FOLK STRING BALL 5LB OF TWINE- $ 43Those who lived through the Great Depression were probably the greatest generation of “savers” in history. Years ago, when I’d buy the contents of a home lived in for years by these folks, I’d find boxes, bags and bundles of everything from neatly ironed chewing gum and soap wrappers to jars of bottle caps and drawers filled with rubber bands and pencils worn down to an inch long.But most exciting of all were those rare times I’d find a hoard of string, not just throw in a drawer, but methodically wound into a ball that grew and grew as the decades passed. I thought I’d found my last until last week. It was in an old home near downtown Cincinnati. 









 
It weighs 5 lbs. 2 oz. and measures approximately 9 ½” in diameter. Who knows how many years it represents? It is not only big, it is also clean and beautifully round – perfect for a library shelf or a rare oddity housed in a glass dome to keep it clean.

 
As I played with my discovery, I began imagining it taking its place in some lucky person’s collection of . . . well, most anything.  For the folk art collector – perfect! Do you love country things – primitives and furniture with crusty old paint? Again, perfect! The more I thought about it, the more I appreciated its versatility.


 
What was once a necessity, mostly taken for granted, morphed into an entirely different realm; the world of art. One might say it evolved.

 
From the general store; to a young man’s written notes of love; to Grandma’s powders and pills; string held the world together . . . organized the planet.

 

It is modernism, futuristic, and antique – all rolled into one – Or should I say “wound” into one?” String has crept into the human psyche also. There are those to whom string causes panic – fear – and anxiety at the clinical level, believe it or knot. Psychiatrists call it Linonophobia.



 

FRIDAY ART BLOGGING

 

april drive

 

arne pic

 

arne in mcgregor

 

pimped 'car'

 

lands & peoples

 

estate sale tour


 

fall drive

 

hi-way harry drive

 

feline exploitation 

 

lands & peoples

 














































tin lure

 





































march drive

 

photo album

 

FRIG'S BRIDGE BLOGGING

Thursday, May 29, 2014

 

    cold pretty

 


economics

foll me once, never fool me again 


 

estate sale tour

mod!

 

ebay objects


 

THURSDAY PIE-CRIMPER BLOGGING

 

april drive

 

arne pic

 

arne in iowa

 

amped 'car'

 
ebay object 


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