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Tomorrow we're all set to do Trade 31! I'll be trading the Pete Townshend letters for...
... an amazing...
Er No. You'll just have to wait as usual - sorry!
Now and again a visitor would tell me they're not clear what I have to trade. Well, now and again is too frequent, so I added little image links to the items at the top of every page.
Trouble was, with over seventy trades and items the pages were growing unmanageably bigger and bigger, just like the Stanley Cup...
(photo from Wikipedia!)
So I made all the little images four times smaller, so even if you can't see them now at least they're a good fit.
Time for a little trivia - the Stanley Cup was donated by Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892... and this here trading nothing started in Preston approximately...
Well, many years later.
And I put a cycle racing bottle up for a trade last night. As used by a professional racer, and it's in full working order, I believe... as usual, ALL offers welcome!
Posted by Andrew @ 11:16pm
I'd known for over a year that felting artist Emma Allott in Tipperary was interested in doing a trade, it was just a question of figuring out something worthwhile. We had quite a dialogue last year, but didn't work it out...
Many months passed.
Then... after Trade 24 I approached Emma again, asking her if she could maybe make something special with Speedy the llama hair, to which she replied yes, she could make a felting sculpture of Speedy...
Perfect! I thought, even though I didn't really know what a felting sculpture was. But a Speedy made out of Speedy? This we had to do, simple as.
From me Emma wanted some balloons, and she was also offering another of her felting works into the deal, as well as a collection of old peg dolls.
So I sent a tuft of Speedy's hair to Emma in Tipperary, Ireland - a long way indeed from Wisconsin in the United States, where Speedy had lived, though maybe space traveller Captain James T. Kirk would disagree - and then waited...
Some weeks later the sculpture was ready, looking, I thought, impressively life-like in the photo Emma sent me...
Emma lives in Cahir in county Tipperary, quite a drive from Kinsale. But lucky for me, she was planning a weekend in Cork city, only half an hour drive from Kinsale. So we came up with a sketchy plan: I would drive to Cork city centre and call Emma on arrival...
When I called, Emma was at the Crawford Gallery, so I headed over, and figured she must be the lady holding a basket carrying a felting sculpture of a llama. I looked around just to make sure, but didn't see anybody else with a felting sculpture of a llama.
We said our hellos and pretty soon set about doing the first part of the trade.
I traded some genuine Speedy the llama hair for a felting picture of a dolmen, made out of wool...
Yes Emma, that was hilarious. Great idea. Thank's very much for that.
Then, whilst I had a coffee, Emma went away and made the Speedy sculpture out of Speedy hair (and alpaca hair and wool), and she even (with a little help) made a basket out of willow, to carry the sculpture, and then she came back and we completed Trade 30...
OK maybe I got some of the timeline details a little mixed up, but that was sort of how Trade 30 happened.
And what else... oh, the replacement little green guy arrived! I need to pass him on to Trade 29 Kate...
And the Friday meeting has been postponed to... this Friday.
So now... three more impressive items added to the mix and now up for a trade:
You can check out my current offerings below, and feel free to make me an offer of any number of your things for any number of mine. (Or, if you prefer, give me a shout).
I'm always interested in offers of anything, and I really do mean anything...
Posted by Andrew @ 11:01pm
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