In my last post I mentioned the memory cards Wes made for Show & Tell Club. The cards shown in these photos are actually the set I made for Lindsay as a birthday gift, but you get the gist. We can't take the credit for this idea, we played with David and Marie's handmade set a few weeks ago, and Wes was so inspired he woke up the next morning, took us all to the thrift store to buy old books (thank you, thank you, thank you), and spent the day making his own.These are basically just old photos, book pages, playing cards, etc. pasted onto mat board. As you can see, some matches are exact while others are just associated images (the two drums, for example). We've had a great time playing with these, thus far. I think they're great gift ideas. I even left a handful of Lindsay's tiles blank so she could fill them in herself.
I saw this post on homemade gaming over on SouleMama today. What a delightful coincidence!
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The David I met at your house was David Birkey?! That's crazy! There's a painting of his I saw at Art Link, like, three or four years ago that I still think about all the time. I can't believe I met the guy and didn't even know it.
How funny? Which painting? Was it listed on his website?
Yeah--it's the one called "Bruises Confuse Us," with a guy in a space suit that has a crack in the helmet and a kind of Mt. Fuji-looking mountain in the background. Really unsettling and it's in this cool sort of cinematic aspect ratio, like it's a film still, maybe.
Go check it out if it doesn't sound familiar.
i love love love those memory game cards... more and more every time i look at them!
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