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Jenny Ryan is an artist, crafter, and maker of things. She lives in Los Angeles with a pack of various animals (including her husband) and writes about her adventures in creating at Exit Through the Thrift Shop.

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Jenny Ryan

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July 7, 2008, 12:00 pm PDT

Plumpudding recently made her first-ever mobile, and she did a bang-up job. Her colorful creation was made using odds and ends like twigs, tin can lids, cardboard roll flowers, drinking straws and a cut-up yardstick.