December 2011
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Marbles Lost, Marbles Found: Children’s Games and...
From a post on Anthropology in Practice, by Krystal D’Costa.
I used to be a crack shot at pitch (marbles) as a kid. I learned from my dad. We’d draw a circle with a piece of chalk, and “pitch” our taws at each other’s pieces, which is how the game gets its name in Trinidad. Our goal was to knock each other’s pieces out of the ring—though he rarely, if ever, seized one of my marbles....
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Seasonal Cards
I love the artwork of Rima Staines and recommend these beautiful winter cards.Rima’s blog and online store is called The Hermitage - a self proclaimed phantasmagoria of fancy, a museum of myth, realm of the ridiculous and online home of Rima Staines, illustrator, painter, maker of things and teller of tales…
On her blog you can see more images like these that show her creating the...
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