Saturday, May 10, 2008

Childhood on a string

I found a pile of hønseringe at today's local fleemarked. Did you have these when you were a child? What did you call them?
We collected and swapped them. The S'es, C's and 8's were among the most common – I had completely forgotten about the skeletons, the locks, the owls and the keys. How I loved them.
I have an idea for an illustration with them, and some might also make a nice pair of earrings. Or maybe one of you guys would be up for a swap ;-)
Hard afternoon light and shadow on the balcony.

6 comments:

  1. Ooh, it seems that the sun finally remembered to visit this poor old Europe. In England is lovely weather too.

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  2. Jeg kaldte dem hønseringe...HAHAHAHA...hihi
    Ved også jeg har en pose et sted i gemmerne...Mindes også jeg var ret vild med dem...og stadig syntes de er en ret hyggelig ting...Glæder mig til at se hvad du skal bruge dem til ud over at "HØNSE"...:D

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  3. really love your title "Childhood on a string" < >

    its like the string is synaptic memory learning the letters which code memory and we learn the letters and string them at childhood.

    I never saw these before.
    thanks. :)

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  4. Oh I remember those chain necklaces...they were awesome. You could here me from a mile away because mine was always so clunky. They went well with the jelly shoes and the jelly bracelets.
    oh, childhood.

    (nice looking plants by the way!)

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  5. oh i have never seen those ! i would love to play (yes still now !) with them, it looks so great :D

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  6. Hønseringe. I found a box in my basement recently. Lots of C´s, S´s H´s and the odd Owl´s Pretzel´s. Took them outside my rowhouse, where the little children play (Koreans, Russians, Ukranian´s, Columbia, Danish (me at 62) and other nationalities. Now they want to play with their own, rather than borrowing mine. Right now I am searching Danish sites for HØNSERINGE, to be sent to Vancouver Canada.
    Greetings Karin Brandt Koch

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