About Me
- Name: Florence Forrest
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
I'm a toy designer maker, the design dramaturge for OzFrank Theatre and an occasional arts writer living in Brisbane Australia.
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Toys and Dolls [+/-]
- [+/-] Flying Star Toys
- ExplorAnauts - Travel Buddies
- MajicCatsMini
- Pimmie Parrots
- Coastal Birds Series - Sneak Peak
- TechGnoMe
- MoonBeans - Traveller's Trinkets
- 1000 Cranes: Snow Walkers
- Here to Help - Novas Infinite
- Sky Kangaroos = Star Boomers
- FlockA2s - birds of a feather
- Flying Star Toys on Etsy!
- Safe and Sound Mice - Hanging Charm Toy
- TechGnoMe Mini have arrived!
- Biscuit Bunnies
- 100 Water Houses
- Look and See Owls
- Red Finch White Finch
- Chic-Chic are baby chicks
- Ishmael's Whale
- Fruits of Eve
- Biscuit Bunnies - New Varieties
- When a Biscuit Bunny Finds a Home..
- Please Welcome Best Bunny
- Best Bunnies at MoBstore
- Introducing Nature Owls!
- The Fishing Line - hanging mobile
- The Birth of Biscuit Bunnies
- Piccabu Elephant and Molehill Mouse
- Introducing Night-Night Mushrooms
- Fruits of Eve - a commission
- Afternoon Moon
- Sail Away Boats series 1
- [+/-] Florence's Dolls
- [+/-] Exhibitions
- Luv-able + Hug-able, NYC Dec 2008
- Plush You! (2) at Double Punch Gallery, SF, USA 2008
- Plush You! 2008 - plush toy art exhibition USA
- Super Plush! Exhibition LA, USA 2008
- Aqua Vitae - Exhibition KickArts Cairns 2008
- Cancer Sell Charity Exhibition London 2008
- 100 Water Houses in the Sandgate Library 2008
- Plushed: Art Gone Soft 2008
- Delightful Shows 2007
- Toy Box Exhibition - Cairns 2007
- Toy Box Exhibition Images
- Christmas Design Market at GOMA 2007
- Umbrella Collective Christmas Show 2007
- Threads of Change 2007
- Coastal Birds at Sandgate Library 2007
- Umbrella Collective Xmas Show 2006
- Furry Friends Exhibition 2006
- Delightful Things for Christmas 2006
- [+/-] Media
- [+/-] More about Toys
The Arts [+/-]
- Watermelon Carving
- Hokusai - Haunted Spirit
- Ito Shinsui - Firefly
- William Blake - Watercolour of the Inferno
- Horaiji Temple, Mikawa Province - Hiroshige Ando
- Coast of Provence 6 - Paul Klee
- Tibetan Tsakli - bird headed scorpion
- The Paintings of Katy Horan
- Good after Bad - The Museum of Bad Art
- Hiroshigi - no. 33 Motoyama
- The birthday Party - Irvine Homer
- Animated Art - Katy Horan
- New Painting Acquisition - Bird on a Rock
Community Chest [+/-]
Fun Stuff [+/-]
- [+/-] A Week of Geek
- [+/-] Personal Legends
- [+/-] Games and Patterns
- [+/-] YouTube
- Chillax this weekend
- I, Florence - day 2 Geek Week
- Toy Car Chase
- Bert's Dance - Doin' the Pigeon
- Cliff Richard as a Thunderbird - Music Clip
- Yello - The Race
- Ekka Birds and Cow Hands
- YouTubers - Homage to youTube
- I heart Web 2.0
- A day in the life of Button Metro
- The Muppet Cycle -three Muppet clips
- Moon on Ice - Yello
- [+/-] Writing and Rambling
- Hello WindBag and Thunder
- Songs for My Cat - FEED MEoW
- New story on Crackle mountain - Tamamo the Fox Maiden
- Crackle Mountain - The Princess Lily
- Crackle Mountain - The Fire Quest
- Art Criticism?
- The Divine Comedy - Dante
- Planet of Visions - Life After Theory
- "by Hand" - New Book on Contemporary Craft
- The Hour of Transformation
- For Jude - symbol of wholeness
- The Red Pig - Happy Chinese New Year
- Thanks for the Meme-ories
- Me a Bride's Maid?!
- A Sunday Wedding
- Not Another Seven Things!!!
- Name Tagged - another 8 things about me
- Animated Art - Katy Horan
- Connecting to Your Environment Though Story
- Crooked Roads...
- Five Little Things
- An Award for Me?!
Brisbane |
Recently
- flower girl
- It's a Boy!
- Fruits of Eve Mini - sneak peek
- A Flight of Butterflies
- It's Raining! It's Pouring!
- Miniature Collection - three painting by Caroline ...
- Craft Australia - new web address
- Flying Star Toys in iMart Design Book
- Friends at the Bisbane Craft and Stitches Show
- little fluffy clouds
Links
Florence's Other Blogs
- Design Dramaturge: my work process as an artist in the theatre
- Crackle Mountain: folktales from China and Japan, beautifully illustrated with Asian art
- LilliandTom: the adventures of Lilli and Tom life-size cloth dolls
- Umbrella Collective - six artists united by craft and friendship
The Umbrella Girls
- Umbrella Collective
- Plastic Girl - Liana
- Rebecca the Wrecker
- Red Felt Flower - Sarah
- Strange Fragments - Shannon
- Instinct and Grace - Kylie J
Friends of Flying Star Toys
- A Army of (Cl)one
- Agualila
- Anna Laura Art
- Ann Wood
- artAart - Nadine Sawyer
- Blog the Arts - Arthur Browning
- Cliodhna Wave - Cliodhna
- Craft Actually - Helen
- Daughter of the Empire by Merlyn Gabriel
- Davenator - Anna Davern
- Dear Ada
- Disenyo
- Dreams Between Worlds - Elisa
- Elsewhere - Louise
- Feed the Dog
- Feffakookan - Mel Robson
- Feltbug - Mandy
- Fluffy Flowers - Felicia
- Frank Theatre Journal - John Nobbs
- Friederike Herzensart
- Gooseflesh - Helle
- Handmadelife
- Heather Smith Jones
- Japonisme - Lotusgreen
- LaLootka Toys
- Little Fish Creations - Claire
- Low Relief
- Magical Mouse Studio - Kim Yanoshik
- Michele
- Middle of Nowhere - PG
- Doll - Mimi Kirchner
- Miss Frugality - Julia
- MoBworkspace
- modmom
- Muerto de Risa
- Novembermoon - Cathy Cullis
- One Red Robin - Jhoanna
- OzFrank Theatre Laboratory - Jacqui Carroll
- Pasadena Mansions - Elaine Haby
- Picard's Journal
- Plush Team
- Plush You!
- Poppalina - Shula
- Raggyrat - Catherine
- Rashbre Central
- Re-Cycled Crows - Merlyn
- Revoluzza (toys) - Suse
- Sacred Heart Arts - Shell
- Sharon B's in a Minute Ago
- Sheeps Clothing - Stacey
- Shiborigirl - Glennis
- Softies Cuties
- Spirit Cloth - Jude
- Thea and Sami
- Tinkering Times - Sally F
- The Fabric of Meditation - Sara Lechner
- Katy Horan
- The Queen of Light and Joy
- TskTsk - Tiel
- Truely Spacious - Jaihn
- Urban Myths: Tales from the Accordian - WJ
- While She Naps - Abby
- Whiney- Van
- Written Inc - Carmi
Craft & Design Links
- All Things Handmade
- Bloesem
- Bondville - Promoting Australian Design
- Design*Sponge
- Designers Emporium - Brisbane
- Duckcloth blog
- Craft Queensland
- Craft Victoria
- Craft Australia
- Indie Art and Design directory and blog
- Living Creatively
- Made It blog
- Meet Me at Mikes
- Modish blog
- Poppytalk
- Studio Home Creative
- Whip Up
Arts Links
- Frank Theatre
- Rachel Arthur
- Nadine Sawyer Art
- Oz Quilt Network
- Mingei International Museum
- American Folkart Museum
- The Museum of Bad Art
- Contemporary Art Magazine
- Warutsu -toy artist
- Tamar Mogendorff - toy artist
- Anna Davern - Jewellery
- Ann Wood - toy artist
- Lauri Faggioni - toy artist
Around the Web
Pay It Forward
- Spirit Cloth - Jude
- The Queen of Light and Joy
- Captain Picard
- Heather Smith Jones
- Re-Cycled Crows - Merlyn
- Cassandra Russell
- Spiraling
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