hobby horses

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Last year I made four hobby-horse heads by cutting the shape out of pieces of 5-ply any then covering them with different objects:  shells, Monopoly money, a jig-saw,and some NZ stamps from the 1970‘s. The eyes are made of beer-bottle caps & black buttons, the reins are pieces of inner-tube, while to make the manes I used wool for two heads and old typewriter ribbons for the others.
This week I mounted them onto bases and took them in to "Buana Satu".

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