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Kay Turple is a Canadian artist who makes amazing 3-dimensional dog portraits — all sorts of dog breeds, like this gorgeous fluffy Old English Sheepdog — working from your photographs to make a tiny true-to-life model in felted wool.
How does Kay make her miniature pets? She gives an overview of the needle felting technique [...]
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You’d think that the Museum of Modern Art’s online shop (MOMA) would be all tasteful leather desk accessories and reprints of Old Masters, right?
Not so!
Clockwise from top left:
Curved glasses in a rainbow of colours. Maybe not the best thing for your restorative orange juice on New Year’s Day morning, but a cheery sight [...]
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I’ve got to confess to having a weakness for Spookytown miniatures — well, anything miniature, if it comes to that — ever since I read Piers Anthony’s now-classic fantasy On a Pale Horse (part of his Incarnations of Immortality series), and then spotted the “Death On A Pale Horse” figurine in that really [...]
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For a drop-dead-gorgeous family room, there’s any number of ways a spendy type could drop a few thousand without pausing for coffee… You could splash out on a flat-screen TV, for example, and pretend it’s modern wall art.
Or… you could tuck that traditional chunky-style TV set away in an [...]
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Here’s a question for the creative jewelry artists in the crowd: have you ever used model railroad supplies to make a $1400 necklace?
Some of the most astonishingly original pieces I’ve seen in ages (thanks to Di Overton for spotting the dangerously pretty rings) have turned up in Sarah Hood’s landscape jewellery collection — inspired [...]
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