Croquet & Chicago (intersection of tags)

You can build this in your backyard! 104 landscape stakes + string = your own Sol LeWitt croquet course. Takes conceptual art from museum walls to playable outdoor experience. Instructions included

For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

Here’s a classic from my video archives. My twin brother Erik “The Hammer” Maldre accomplishes the first ever half-court run in the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk by going through half of the court’s wickets IN ONE TURN! Here he…

Here’s some ideas of projects I’d like to take in my next ceramics class: 1) Funny trophies There are absolutely no trophies in the world with a statue of a croquet player. That must be fixed. 2) Chicago molds It…

I have played croquet with 37 different people so far. I want to play with 100 different people. It’s a new item on my to do list. How many people have you played croquet with?

The highlights from my croquet photo collection are now featured on flickr. Right now there are 24 photos up. To learn more about the Chicago Croquet of Squirearchy, go to our site at: www.chicagocroquet.com.

Looking for a fun unusual sport to play or watch in Chicago? I’m not talking about the typical basketball, volleyball or football. How about archery, croquet, bocce and more? Here’s a list of links to calendars for less popular sports…

Here’s eight posts that will be appearing on spudart.org soon. √Ø Sock wrist fashions √Ø Mayor Daley causes power outage at Tribune Tower √Ø Talking on cell phone performance √Ø Big red streak across buildings like a photo √Ø Yu-gi-oh…

Yours truly, the Mighty Mauler unified ALL FOUR championship belts of the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk. Check out this press photo.

Patriotic Afro WigNothing like looking an All-American Fool Patriotic Potato SacksWhat is more American than USA and potatoes?! *stands up and sings* God bless America! Land that I love! Stand beside… Metal and Rhinestone Patriotic Flag RingsBling bling. Can you…

Here are some of the things I put into my profile for my 10-year high school reunion Occupation: Graphic Designer for Tribune Media Services Hobbies: Art, ceramics, extreme croquet, getting lost, graphic design, illustration, learning, Macintosh, Mr. T., photography, programming,…

Went home this weekend. Saturday was National Croquet Day, and my Aunt from Ireland was coming in, so we had a relative get together and that means. Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk was gonna play some bad a55 croquet. But…

Here are the other nuggets: 1st row 3rd tv: Lisa planting in her garden (didn’t turn out too good) 2nd row 2nd tv: Our copywriter, Dave, in his band. That’s the dude who’s getting quite famous with his band 2nd…

Went to Hobby Lobby with Lisa to order a custom mat for Lisa’s tiny todd marrone drawing. Something thick like 8-ply. I found a new yellow color burlap. Also looked at interesting boxes for under my bathroom sink, but none…

For the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk’s game reports, I’m going to do alot more character development to make the stories much more interesting. I even took out some how to write short story books and character books from the…

Today was the opening day for the Chicago Croquet Club. This is official professional USCA croquet on super smooth courts, real heavy mallets, heavy balls, skinny strong wickets. And wearing all white. Well… Laura and I weren’t in all white.…

This Saturday, June 15, I wanna go learn some croquet from the croquet master Bob Kroeger. He’s gonna be teaching at the Chicago Croquet Club’s opening day. Their press release welcomes anyone to come. Who wants to come? It’s right…

It looks like the Squirearchy will be published as the creators of extreme mini-croquet in the next issue of the National Croquet Calendar. Take a sneak peek at what i submitted: article #1 and article #2. This photo might make…

The official croquet of the Squirearchy is now made under the brand names of Wilson and Sportcraft. Amazing. Here’s the story no-point story: hey! i found the croquet set for lisa. I went over to sportmart during work. There’s one…

tomorrow is the first big croquet event of 2002! Punishment at Kreten Kourt. Check it out our club at: https://www.spudart.org/chicagocroquet.

My campaign would include:* Bringing a white castle downtown* Building more croquet courts* Instituting 2-hour lunches, and 2-month vacation minimums* Making Macintosh the official computer platform* Eliminating the stupid wrigley bleacher expansion plans* Metra Station at Addison* Little Debbies on…

Find sports partners!Form or join teams!Find coaces or venues!http://www.sportingboard.com I just set up the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk on this site.