DIY Childhood
These paper toys (image from thetoymaker.com via del.icio.us) just make me nostalgic. Hmmm...You are what you played with as a kid, probably. Besides those wild "excursions" up and down slopes and hills behind the public housing estate where my grandma lived, my younger childhood was spent mostly with various forms of paper "toys".
- Mon: Filling colours for popular Japanese icons (Thanks, TV).
- Tue: Paper foldings (and actually the delicate drawings of the instruction).
- Wed: Cut-and-pasting (computer? what was that?).
- Thu: Look-for-differences drawings in "Er-tong Le-yuan (Children's Playground)" (an archeology is available online! Sorry, Chinese only.)
- (Glamorous) Fri: Paper fashion figures and their accessories (Yes, the pre-Barbie campness).
- Sat: Just doodle!
The paper period of my history ended when I started longing for a Lego fire station (and, of course, the firemen). Then arrived all those balls and falling objects, etc.... Hey, I am not starting my retro now!
I know, childhood is a myth, and its memories are always mesmerizing, perhaps beguiling. Anyway, no body can really share exactly the joy for this DIY process, right? both the memories, and the toys.
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