my head still reels thinking about all the beautiful and unique antiques and collectibles i saw on a visit to a wonderful museum with a good friend. the most amazing was this miniature three-ring circus, 35,000 tiny little performers and animals and circus trappings and audience members. it was carved by the artist over a forty year period, using only a penknife and a treadle jigsaw - and he worked on it only during in his spare time. would that i had spare time like that.
04 August 2009
a little tripp, a little culture, a little circus
my head still reels thinking about all the beautiful and unique antiques and collectibles i saw on a visit to a wonderful museum with a good friend. the most amazing was this miniature three-ring circus, 35,000 tiny little performers and animals and circus trappings and audience members. it was carved by the artist over a forty year period, using only a penknife and a treadle jigsaw - and he worked on it only during in his spare time. would that i had spare time like that.
Wow......the world is so full of so many tiny things to make us happy..........thanks, Chris
ReplyDeleteHow amazing! I keep hearing about wonderful things at that place - I guess I'd better get there someday.
ReplyDeleteYup, quite the tripp!!
ReplyDeleteSerendipitous we ran into that woman just as we were about to leave. We would have missed the circus...
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