Cardboard village

Spent the day working with Jayn and her friends on a fun kid's craft project making miniature village buildings from recycled cereal box cardstock. How to's will be on the Natural Life Magazine website in Fall, with downloads available when the template designs are tweaked a bit more. But we had a lot of fun with the prototypes today.
In the mean time the latest July/August issue out shortly will have an article by me about plarn.


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Magpie's Mumblings said…
Cute buildings! I have a question tho...what's 'plarn'? Plastic yarn?
June 18, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Robyn Coburn Writer/Artist said…
Yes, Plastic Yarn. I use it for crochet - baskets and such.
I also am working on a series of figures in plarn crochet.
June 18, 2009 at 11:17 AM
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