The Whirligigs of Summer- Part 6

~ The Whirligigs of Summer ~

Part VI

Summer ended on a very fun note with this whirligig made by Margie.  When she started unloading her goodies from the boxes she brought in I started to drool.  Fun and colorful vintage toys and kitchen doodads.  She admittedly wasn't planning on putting her gig outside unless she was having a party so it she did't have to concern herself at all about function and she could just create fun visual eye candy.

This is a picture of some of the items that she didn't use. Margie has enough stuff for multiple whirligigs and I have a feeling I'll see her again for another workshop.  Looking forward to it!

Play at Hutch.

~ Play at Hutch ~

There has definitely been a lot of changes at Hutch lately and one of the very best is the emphasis that we are putting on idea of "Play".  The magical quality that a child's eye and imagination possess has always been at the core of what we have tried to express with what me make and how we present those things.  I think that this shows better now that it ever has before and especially in the rooms of Hutch.  Below is a shadow that is cast on the window sill in our play porch from the childlike drawings of bunnies on our window glass.  I realize it is a small thing that might easily go unnoticed but I always find magic in these little moments of discovery. 

Krys, who is like Hutch's professional picker has been very busy combing our area thrift and vintage shops and finding some great treasures. The porch is full of vintage games that fill the older customers with nostalgic memories of "play" and still  effect children with the playtime feeling.  So much so that on one occasion a little girl was playing quietly while her mother browsed the entire shop for a good long time and when they had both finally left I discovered that every little bunny in every room had been magically moved into one of the dollhouses on the porch and they were having a fun old time. Very cute.

One of the very fun things we have done lately is put a hopscotch game on the floor in our side porch.  By using tape it isn't a permanent addition to the floor and hopefully will easily remove in the future when we think of some other fun thing.

And it's not just for decoration either.  It gets used frequently by young and old.  Sometimes I think the older ones, look at the floor and hop along in their minds remembering their own childhood experience.

To end this post I want to share something I discovered one day written on our little child's easel located on the play porch.  It made me smile.  The little girl that wrote it returned a week later to happily discover it was still there and hadn't been erased.

There will definitely be more playful posts to come.

The hutch studio "Blues"

~ The Hutch Studio "Blues" ~

It's spring  here in the Skagit Valley and we're singing in the rain.  At times the lack of sunshine can give us a good case of the blues.  Today at the studio I thought I would pull out all of the fun blue things that will hopefully bring a smile and ray of sunshine into your day.  Enjoy!

This vintage toy record player could have just as easily made the "red" category but the side wall with the story book decals is what I focused on.  Maybe just maybe these photos of our fun old toys made you want to play the happy blues.  I imagine that's what this record player would do.

Vintage Inspiration "red"

~ Vintage Inspiration ~

"Red"

Oh how they liked to use red on everything back  in the day.  There was something to it I think.  Among all other colors red always stands out.  Like it's saying "Look at me I'm red!".  In art there has been the saying "If you can't make it good make it big, and if you can't make it big make it red."  That isn't to say red items are in some way making up for some shortfall with their surface color.  It's just a funny way to point out the power of "RED".  Here a a few of the beautifully red objects of hutch studio.

I hope you enjoyed this red for your head.

Here's a hint for what's coming up......

I'm feeling a bit sad.

Do you know what is is?