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your ideal bookshelf

Posted at August 31, 2010

. What would your ideal bookshelf look like? Jane Mount captures your “ideal bookshelf” on canvas as a way to immortalize your all-time favorites or perhaps just your favorites right now. I would love to do something like this for Baby M… and update it every few years. If you’re not up for commissioning your [...]

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it must be all those children’s books I’m reading…

Posted at June 23, 2010

.I’m pretty certain I’ve fallen head over heels for Charley Harper once again. I’m sure many of you did when Todd Oldham’s Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life was all the rage on coffee tables across the country in 2007. But I think it’s all of those Eric Carle books I’m reading to Lena that might [...]

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more pretty books for sale in dollars and not pounds!

Posted at April 19, 2010

. Remember those fabulous Penguin classic editions with jacket covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith?? Well, the 2nd edition has just been released for sale in the US (previously only available in the UK at Waterstone’s) and are also priced at just $13.60 each! And this time the whole set of 10 is available right away [...]

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the cuteness of lorelay bove

Posted at March 8, 2010

.I took one look at Lorelay Bove’s adorable paintings for the latest Alice in Wonderland themed art show at Nucleus Gallery and I pretty much fell in love with her style. And when I tracked down her etsy shop, I knew I was really in trouble. Luckily we have no current need for Parisian/Rome artwork, [...]

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devloping every friday

Posted at January 22, 2010

.For the next few Fridays, the lovely Liz of PaisleePress is hosting a “develop” photography series with the wonderful photographer Jefra Starr Linn. Each week there’s a posted assignment, a guided creativity lesson, and a chance to showcase your results via either FLICKR or Facebook. It’s the perfect way to spend the weekend working on [...]

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helping the hodges

Posted at January 21, 2010

. Starting today, the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) will be launching a fund-raising auction of original art by America’s top cartoonists who donated their work to help one of their own in his time of need. In August of 2009, Matthew Hodge, the teenage son of former Disney and Veggie Tales artist Tim Hodge, [...]