Dec
02
2009
Paper Cutting, Paper Sculpture, and Scherenschnitte
Posted by Pellora in Photo Blogging, Relaxed Politics
Paper cutting and sculpture isn’t just silhouettes any more. Take a peek and also spend some time exploring the artists’ websites. Enjoy.
Paper cutting
Peter Callesen
Paper Sculpture
Helen Musselwhite
Scherenschnitte
The Adventures of Dot and Mae
Pamela Dalton Papercutting
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My brain and my hands hurt just thinking about this stuff.
That is very kewl, but I’m with gnome. I simply do not have the attention span or the artistic ability to do anything remotely like that. I’ll just limit myself to making snowflakes
@ madmommy:
You only need the attention span to look at it and “ooh” and “ahhh”.
My brain and hands hurt cuz I’ve been drawing on the computer all day. Mousing bothers my thumb and thinking bothers my brain.
I just downloaded an energy program I need to process the Habitat house through before the thing is done. More
Every time I have to use this thing, I have to get a new version from the DOE. Nothing changes except the color of the heading and the format, but the city looks at the color and if it is wrong they don’t take the submission. 
Long time ago, when I was still putting up a Christmas tree and the Kidlets were home, we all made paper snowflakes and that’s all that we put on the tree except lights. Was very cool. And very messy!
@ Pellora:
Did you guys make those snowflakes???
And there’s this – a lot easier on your hands, no scissors involved, and no mess!
Make a Flake
I’d forgotten about this until now!
@ gnome de plume:
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No, not those. But we had some almost as intricate. I still have them in my decorations box. I went googling and happened to find this photo of snowflakes on a tree. I will say it made a really great looking tree. And I suggest that if your kids are scissor age – this would be a really fun family tradition or project! I still have some up on windows (for pretty, but also to let birdies known there is glass… course the windows are so dirty, they prolly don’t need the flakes anymore
Moving towards bed fairly soon. Pain is exhausting.
First a bath.
@ Texas Betsy:
m o v e s l o w l y
@ Pellora:
We’ve got a lot of handmade ornaments. Some pretty and some pretty lame.
When I think about making snowflakes I think about my very sharp, very expensive sewing scissors that would be able to make those intricate cuts. I used to love doing that kind of stuff. Maybe sometime in the distant future I will get a grandchild to do that stuff with again.
@ Texas Betsy:
I like your bedroom tonight.
I am getting
too.
@ gnome de plume:
rheumatoid arthritis and his hands are quite gnarled.
I don’t have any grandkidlets around yet either. Maybe I should do this again soon. Down at my mom and dad’s, though dad can’t do it anymore probably. So maybe not.
@ Pellora:
That is why I have enjoyed my gnieces and gnephews so. It lets me do that fun kid stuff again.
OK, Mr. Gnome made his obligatory before-bed call, so now I can go
and read for awhile.
I will see you Bumz tomorrow.
I teach my students how to make snowflakes every year and then they write equations on them equaling the new year. My nod to the holidays since I don’t do any holiday type stuff otherwise.
My tree has quite a few kid-made ornaments on it. They’re not part of a “theme”, and I’m sure Martha Stewart would poo-poo it, but I love it. I have friends who do not let their kids hang their ornaments on the “company” tree. They set up some dinky tree in an out-of-the-way place for those ornaments. I just don’t understand that way of thinking at all. When we were at mom’s doing her tree, she unwrapped each ornament and could say where she got it and what it meant. Of course the ones we made as kids are long gone, but everything on her tree is something she’s gotten on a trip, or was given, or made to commemorate a family pet. I look at my tree and see things the kids made in pre-school and can’t wait to see what they’ll bring home this year
Time for be for me. The doc gave me a dose of the medicine he prescribed tonight at the office, so I’m not feeling as itchy but I am sleepy.
Hope you feel better soon Betsy!
Thanks madmom. Sleep well.
Maybe I’ll find my brain tomorrow and write a post. In the meantime, g’night bumz.
I still use Texteen’s kindergarten menorah, company or not.
@ madmommy:
But they always love putting them on the tree. To relegate their ornaments to some little tree over there is rather rude and demeaning I think. humbug!
I kept as many of the kids’ made ornaments as I could manage – helps that I am a total pack rat!
g’night Betsy – sleep well, sweet pain free and full of nice soft dreams!
g’night Gnome, Madmommy – you both sleep well too!
Gordon is already gone – hope he feels better tomorrow.
I think I’ll do a serious day post now before I go to bed and read or play games on my new phone
Kidlet3 caught me playing on phone in bed the other night – called me a nerd 
takes one to know one!
Pellora’s Snowflake made at Make a Flake on 12/2/09
Hiya Beach Bumz!! Cool paper cutting. New York is going to be warmer than Austin for the next few days, and we might get snow on Friday.
@ freckles cassie:
Hey Cassie!
Morning y’all!
The weather report is that it might snow here Friday night to Saturday morning. Of course the kids are beyond excited, I am meh. Since the last time it snowed here we lost power for 4 days and had to catch snowmelt to flush the pottie, I am less than excited. I was planning to put up the outside tack-assed, over-the-top, white-trash Christmas display this weekend, but Madhubby is pooh-poohing the idea. If the kids got wind of him thinking of not doing any outside decorating we’re gonna have a mutiny on our hands!
boy, send the kid up north for a week and she comes back knowing how to juggle snowballs.
morning y’all
Morning. It is going to be a busy day here. I need to get my Habitat stuff done, then I need to move all the plants I want to save into enclosed porch – the forecast says a high of 32 tomorrow
We haven’t had that kind of a day in several years! On top of all that I have the full board meeting at 6pm that follows my executive board from Tuesday.
Gus is on my lap purring and Theodore is lying in front of the screen.
g’morning!
32 degrees here blue skies sunny! deceptive – you’d think it was warm out there. Low was 19.
Work this morning. Go pick up Dad at dialysis and take him home this afternoon.
Betsy – for your use, I fixed Gnome’s post on girls and finished a serious one myself last night – still have some evening late night over night posts in cupboard.