Posts Tagged ‘toy’

A picture paints a thousand words!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

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We’ve just discovered this great little tool from Wordle that helps you create a visual tag cloud of the most used words on your blog, website or even your Delicious tags.

Here’s the H is for Home word cloud we created earlier!

H is for Home Wordle generated tag cloud

Go on, try it yourself!

Housing Stock

Monday, July 19th, 2010

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three vintage hand painted wooden houses

These were an interesting little buy last week.

vintage handmade hand painted wooden house with red roof and door

A group of three vintage handmade toy houses.

detail of blue vintage wooden house detail of yellow vintage wooden house

They’re constructed of ply around a solid block of wood – then painted.

underside of handmade hand painted wooden house

We’re not sure when they date from, although they obviously have a bit of age – 1940s/50s probably.

vintage handmade hand painted wooden house with yellow roof & door

We love these naive toys and folk art.

vintage handmade hand painted wooden house with blue roof & door

Probably made by dad or grandad for a young child… very sweet!

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