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Day 62: Maskmaking

April 27, 2015100 Days, 100 Drawings, Design work#100days, children, craft, fine motor skills, owl mask, perseverance, scissorsHannah Schickedanz

I love witnessing perseverance in my boys – it’s such an important attribute. Otis generally is pretty disinterested in colouring-in, but he was given a book of masks which involve cutting out, sicking stickers and colouring. At first he was happy with white patches all over them, but upon studying the instructions he realised that … Continue reading Day 62: Maskmaking →

Becoming Arrowtown locals

July 11, 2014Featured, Free range children, Liberty the Great, People, PlacesArrowtown, craft, creative life, drawing, featured, local, Lonely Planet, needle-felting, Provisions, Queenstown, The Fork and Tap, The Stitching Post, travellingThomas Schickedanz

Ironically, I’ve often found travelling quite hard work. I find myself disappointed as a tourist because I am an outsider – I don’t have a local pub (no matter what Lonely Planet recommends), I can’t meet a good friend for a chat at my favorite cafe and I don’t know where to find people doing … Continue reading Becoming Arrowtown locals →