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Your camera is very good! clap1.gif

Thank you for providing more eye candy and at such a perfect angle! cloud9.gif

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~~Larry Brown

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Your camera is very good! clap1.gif

Thank you for providing more eye candy and at such a perfect angle! cloud9.gif

 

Surprisingly, it is the camera in my iPhone.

 

Since the holiday season usually involves excess, here's more candy. . .

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Colour is its own reward - N. Finn

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I dub thee "The Candy Lady".....puddle.gif

Thanks for another taste!

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Amble 63, thanks for posting the pictures, I did enjoy your visit to my stand at Portobello Road.

I did manage to do some work on the Dragonfly designs, but I am still not entirely happy with the drawings so far, I'll get there in the fullness of time though! I was wondering if it might be better to reduce the overall size of the beast, and include some butterflies. The main difficulty is the size and shape of a dragonfly, and it cannot cover any more than one third of the surface of the flat overlay, otherwise the distortion ruins the image, when the overlay is curled.

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Perhaps reducing the size of the dragonfly and increasing the size and arc of their waterweed/rushes home would permit the greenery to arc around the pen and permit at least 2 vignettes of your bugs?

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Perhaps reducing the size of the dragonfly and increasing the size and arc of their waterweed/rushes home would permit the greenery to arc around the pen and permit at least 2 vignettes of your bugs?

 

Ahhhhh GP! I can visualize this vignette....lovely! clap1.gif

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~~Larry Brown

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Well, I'm just back from Portobello, it was a very slow start, but it did brighten up somewhat when an American came to the stand and after careful consideration, left with a handful of really quite unusual pens, [mostly ball-points I might add!] and a couple who were looking for a present for the father of one of them, and decided on one of the last remaining Jasmin Pens in silver.

So, needless to say, I left there a very happy bunny! I wasn't really expecting it to be anything very special, [it being New Year's Eve!] so it was a pleasant surprise, and a great start to the New Year, They are coming back next week to pick up the Jasmin Pen.

Happy New Year to everybody!!! :rolleyes: :thumbup:

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With so many craftsmen in the running, I have no idea the chances of Henry's winning. But as gamblers say...can't win if you don't play. Craft & Design Magazine is sponsoring the annual Selected Awards 2012 for British and Irish designer/makers.

 

Here's the link if you've a notion to vote for our esteemed friend. Good luck Henry....again! thumbup.gif

 

craft&design Selected Awards 2012

 

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Alright....2012, new year, new projects, new pens.....puddle.gif

 

What ho of the Corpole/Simpini collaborative? I heard that someone was just waiting to lay hands on some overlays to which pens may be attached.....Hmmmm? Has the gun been fired, or trigger been pulled? Is there a target in sight? Do whips need to be cracked? huh.gif

 

New Year's resolutions to the effect of less procrastination and more action should reside on everyone's list this year....Time is getting shorter....wink.gif

God is seldom early, never late, and always on time.

~~Larry Brown

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Henry,

 

My apologies for taking so long to post our picture!

 

On our recent visit to the UK right after the Thanksgiving Holiday, my wife and I visited Henry at his Portobello Road location. What a wonderful experience and truly phenomenal conversation with him.

 

And Henry, I am so much enjoying the Conway Stewart and Parker fountain pens I purchased from you that day. They are fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and letting me try so many different pens. It was fun!

 

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Hugh

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Two very happy faces there...........thanks Hugh! One of these days I'll stand where you stood - and see what all that mess is on the shelves behind you both!! :roflmho:

 

Nice pens, BTW, any other pics of them or samples of how they perform??? :thumbup:

Each day is the start of the rest of your life!

Make it count!!!

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One of these days I'll stand where you stood - and see what all that mess is on the shelves behind you both!! :roflmho:

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You don't really want to know..... New fetishes would be born, I'm sure. wacko.gif

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Well, well! One never knows where Himself will turn up!

Whilst checking out the updates on the Arkansas Pen Club website, lo and behold! New (to me) pics of our beloved lurked amongst the "past shows" highlights. These were taken during the 2011 Arkansas Pen & Watch Show held in Little Rock last year. I knew I saw someone snapping pics, just never saw them on FPN.

 

I thought I'd relive and share the warm fuzzy moments with you....not much, but here ya go....

 

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I could be wrong, but I think that's Brian Anderson (esterbrook.net) snapping shots of some of Henry's Esties.... puddle.gif

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Paul Erano and some deranged groupie....roflmho.gif

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ETA: That's USMCMom to the left....I hope she can come again this year....bunny01.gif

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No, Chris, you don't really want to know about the things on the shelves behind us [Hugh and I] in the booth at Portobello! Apart from a thick layer of dust, there are lots of 'things' that I have picked up over the years, and have put there, because there was some space available to put them! :rolleyes:

The copper 'thing' in case you are interested, is a kettle, I believe the first patented 'Whistling Kettle', and is destined to sit on the fireplace at my fireplace down at my flat, in Cornwall, if it doesn't get sold soon! The pewter teapot on the shelf just below the kettle, is a 'pneumatic' teapot, which 'pours' the tea when the lid is lifted and then depressed, through the spout, which is curved to point downwards over the tea-cup! Apparently Queen Victoria was 'most amused' by this type of tea-pot! As indeed was I, when I bought it!

It's a shame that I have got such an inane grin on my face when the photograph was taken! :embarrassed_smile:

The first four photographs of the Little Rock Pen Show, look as though I have broken in to the exhibition room late at night, to do some under-cover piercing work, while Brian Anderson is taking pictures! It was a lovely show. Sadly I will not be attending this year. :(

Having just 'turned the corner' recovering from a chest infection and a rather nasty cold, I am looking forward to getting back in the saddle, and working on my favourite aspect of my work, the 'overlays'! I have lots of ideas for designs, and I can't wait to get started on them.

Truffle Finder :thumbup:

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Welcome back Henry! Glad to see you're better. :bunny01:

Little Rock will miss you of course, but we'll carry on somehow! :thumbup:

God is seldom early, never late, and always on time.

~~Larry Brown

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