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Currently loving gray with pops of color.

All That Glitters

Can Confetti System please decorate my life?

Beautiful Books

So, I know these have been out for a while, but I wanted to turn your attention to them in case you didn't know.

Penguin recently came out with a set of clothbound classics for children (we have a set of their "adult" classics), which are available exclusively at Anthropologie. Unfortunately, they are not available online any longer, so RUN to your nearest Anthro and pick some up for your neice, nephew, son, daughter, brother, sister or inner child. I'm definitely going tomorrow to see what they have left.

Available titles are:

The Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Peter Pan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Wind in the Willows

Belle & Boo

Speaking of adorable...

Last May, the husband I went to New York, where I couldn't resist loading up on paper goods. Of course!

One of the things I brought home was a simply adorable notebook by Belle & Boo, with this insanely cute illustration.


The reasons I love this notebook are three-fold:
1. Duh, it's adorable.
2. Bunny!
3. The husband and I like to imagine that this is what our future daughter will look like.

Back to the present, I stumbled across the Belle & Boo site and fell even more in love with their products.

Seriously thinking I may have to get these for a future Christmas card.


There are way too many cute things on their site, and I think I would take every one. But I will leave you with one last image to melt your heart.

Swoon

It's holiday card card time and I still have not picked mine out - a must-do this week! For now, I am just feasting on the eye candy of Disney illustrator Ralph Hulett's gorgeous Christmas cards.

I wish, wish, wish these were for sale today. They are too precious for words.

Holiday Wreath

I really love this hand-made felted wreath form West Elm, but unfortunately, it's out of stock. I think my next project will be figuring out how to craft a similar looking one for myself.


What holiday crafts are you making/have you made?

Mission Accomplished!

(In Bob Saget voice-over)

Kids, you may remember me mentioning Gallery 360 in past posts. Back in July of 2010, I had just entered the Red Hot Art Fair with my friends Maria and Tricia. The first day, I was approached by a woman who owned a gallery/shop and was interested in my book wreaths for a holiday display. What fortune!

Seriously, I felt so lucky to have the opportunity and over the next few months made more wreaths as well as lots of holiday ornaments. Some days I worked hard, lots of days I didn't do anything, so there was a mad rush the last few weeks to get finished.

I managed to get done in time and now my hard work is waiting for you to admire it. But if you can't get down to 50th and Xerxes (or just don't want to) I thought I'd post a few pictures for you to see what all the fuss has been about.



Here's some of the other beautiful work in the same nook as me:

Darling ceramic ornaments


Pretty pottery.
The most gorgeous folded book sculptures. I die.

If you have time, please go check out Gallery 360. They have great gifts throughout the shop (I'm jonesing for a pretty wooden spaghetti measure.)