Laying back on the veranda lounge, eyes closed, wasting my time imagining the day's work.
Then pow! open eyes! the intensity of light, such blue, such white...truly colour is God's delight.
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Laying back on the veranda lounge, eyes closed, wasting my time imagining the day's work.
Then pow! open eyes! the intensity of light, such blue, such white...truly colour is God's delight.
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?!
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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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