Sunday, September 08, 2013

Vintage art: Super crafty book design

Hands down the coolest story I've seen on the internet in a long while: secret fore-edge book paintings revealed at the University of Iowa.






all images copyright Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Iowastory by Collosal

Now I want to go to the flea market and play art detective.


Saturday, September 07, 2013

SMILE! It's Saturday!

And if this doesn't make you grin like a fool, I don't know what will.


Friday, August 23, 2013

TGIF. And shark cat.

All credit for finding this gem goes to Lu.

I don't know why a cat in a shark costume riding a Roomba makes me so happy, but it does.



Happy Friday, everyone!

Monday, August 19, 2013

Back to School!

Seriosuly, where did summer go?

I mean, I did drive across the American southwest.

John Ford's Point
And I went to Belize.

Xunantunich

I also spent 2 weeks on crutches and another 10 days on the couch with a weird bug.

You know what that means? That means I watched some serious television. Like this:


and this:

and this:



All guilty pleasures and probably I lost some valuable brain cells.

I wrote 45,000 words of a fractured retelling of Beauty and the Beast (it's not finished, but it's close.) That's my fourth novel this year, if you're counting. (I'm counting.) One of these I'm eventually going to polish up and try to publish.

That was my summer. How was yours?

Good-bye summer 2013, how I will miss thee.

ps.   For all my teacher friends who are going back with me or in the next few weeks, I have a Teachers Pay Teachers storefront filled with freebies. I don't make any money off of my TPT store. It's just a nice central location to give away things I make for my classroom.

TeachersPayTeachers

Wednesday, July 31, 2013