Friday, January 18, 2008

January 17th

At a friends' house, trying her mandala-doodlemaker. Thing. (Can anyone tell me what this tool is called??)

6 comments:

  1. well, forevermore now
    it is called a mandala doodlemaker thing!!

    i love that name.

    Nice patterns, buy you make better mandalas in your work regularly without a tool...

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  2. Hej Christine
    It is called a "Spirograph" / Spirograf. And if you are lucky someone still has it in a box in the attic - and will give it to you - or trade it?
    Meanwhile these links may be interesting:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360013740126&ih=023&category=19019&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1QQsidZSpirograph#ebayphotohosting

    And

    http://www.theclassictoytrader.com/Search/?tag=Spirograph

    And

    http://www.tradera.com/Spirograf_miniset___ROLIG_SYSSELSATTNING___-auktion-54826837

    Hugs,
    Vibeke

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  3. http://www.journalofantiques.com/Jan07/playing_around.html

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  4. JA... spirografen super ting...Som 12 årig besøgte jeg og min familie min farfar i Canada og jeg fik en Spirograf derovre...fandt den igen, for ikke så længe siden...Skønne muligheder...og dejlige minder
    Må vist lige teste den igen igen :D

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  5. Looks like you already have your answer! A vintage one still in the box would be worth holding onto :)
    My husband and I have a private joke about a friend of his. When they were little his friend got a spirograph for Christmas. After opening the gift, he shouted at the top of his lungs..."Dad, is this all you got me????" Forty something years later my husband still teases him.

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  6. Is he interested in a swop?? ;-)) It's funny about these things, how they get a revival. In my search for the spirograph, I visited a few toystores here, and they had a somewhat altered version: much bigger, and with battery (Doodle Doug), so you could sit and watch the thing draw for you!!! Come on!
    I thought it was so sad.
    I know you are supposed to colour the patterns then, but still.

    Thanks for your help and sweet comments. It's always appreciated.

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