Vintage Dinosaur Art: Paper Dinosaurs

Hello faithful LITC readers! I'm back from 5 weeks in the wilderness and SVP, and have a pretty cute piece of vintage dinosaur art to share with you. Today we're looking at Paper Dinosaurs: 20 Model Monsters to Cut and Fold, by David Hawcock and published in 1988 by Marshall Cavendish Books.

Classing Up the Joint, Mesozoically

There is no classier way to show your love of dinosaurs than to put this on your walls.



I mean, I am not a wallpaper person. I've had to remove too much of it to ever want to put it on a wall. But that's just too terrific not to at least consider.

These are classy, too. From the maker of the raptor cufflinks previously posted here is this set of T. rex cufflinks.



Clearly, wearing these communicates to the world that the wearer is a person of distinction. But putting wallpaper up shows real commitment. Someone walks into your house and sees dinosaurs on your walls, they think, "That's dedication. This person is unabashed in their love for dinosaurs, and I respect that."

Thanks to LITC craft blogosphere correspondent Jennie for letting me know these exist!

Dinosaur Craft Explosion!

My wife is quickly asserting herself as the official craft blogosphere correspondent for Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs. Today I found myself bombarded with links to cool dinosaurian crafts. So here goes.

Here's a post at the blog Paper n Stitch about a DIY golden dinosaur pendant. One of the dinosaurs used is an old Spinosaurus figurine. If you want to go all Flava Flav with it, you could use something much larger, maybe the big Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus rex. In fact, I highly encourage that. Blogger Brittni also shows off other uses for faux-gold dinosaurs - it's a great way to get new use out of old, beat up miniatures.

Rockin' the Spinosaur Pendant

Next, the Tinysaur, which I thought I'd heard of at the blog formerly known as Dot Dot Dinosaur as well (now known as It's Always Rawr in Philadelphia). Now that I've sorted out the new name, I can't find it there. So whoever posted about this previously, I'm not claiming this as a scoop. Anyway, Tinysaurs are the specialty at the Etsy shop Everything Tiny. The Tinysaurs are laser-cut, which is most certainly the best combination of lasers and dinosaurs since the Dino-Riders.


The Tiny Stegosaurus by Everything Tiny

Finally, perhaps most awesomely, an amazing crocheted dromaeosaur skeleton. The skull proportions are like those of Buitreraptor. Knithacker featured it today, and Jennie says it's blowing up the "stitchin' bitchin' world." It's created by Etsy seller Knittingneedle, and can be yours for the modest price of $500. Here's the best part: they take requests! Name the dinosaur and the color. This has to be one of those moments where someone got an idea and immediately thought, "that's so going viral."


She just wants her eggs back!

Paleo Plushies

Solid. Cartoonist, illustrator, and toymaker Megan Baehr, who runs an Etsy shop called Nonesuch Garden, has begun creating a series of dinosaur plush dolls. The first two are a Stegosaurus and a Triceratops, and she says that she is working on more, inluding a Brachiosaurus. I'd love to see how she pulls it off. They really are more works of art than toys.


Jenski the Stegosaurus, via Etsy


Tertia the Triceratops, via Etsy

Megan has crafted a menagerie that ranges across the animal kingdom and beyond, including mythical creatures. Bully to her for digging into the Mesozoic! You can also check out her creations on her Flickr stream. Her comics and illustrations also reflect a major paleo interest, so be sure to take a good, long gander.

Make Me This

Let's imagine that there's a parallel me whose tastes and interests were combined into a sort of mushy goo with those of my grandma.

That me would want this on his wall.



Come to think of it, this me kind of wants it, too.

Dinosaurigami

Cool!


These origami ornithodires were made by Nicolás Gajardo Henríquez.



More members of his paper menagerie are featured on his Flickr photostream. Way cool!