The arts and crafts edition.
Oh, and one toy. Now you never have to be without a train set.
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/new-online-255/blumenau-model-train-set-r8sr-gama-88100–1/product.html?LproductId=16155
Art from books. I don’t always hold the line with the “never destroy a
book” crowd. Here are two examples of why.
The flickr set of Nicholas Galanin’s What Have We Become .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/galanin/sets/72157594357065714/
Thomas Allen’s photographed dioramas made by cutting and folding pulp covers
http://paintalicious.org/2008/11/20/thomas-allens-book-art-photography
Bajema’s newest book. Sold out of course. Link to the Coilhouse review
because it has more pictures. Go ahead and explore Coilhouse as well.
http://coilhouse.net/2009/05/06/bajemas-web-collection-ii-etta-diem-out-now/
If you’re prowling Seattle this weekend go to see the new show at Roq
La Rue — Lush Life. I’ll be there though sadly not for opening night.
http://roqlarue.com/index.php?module=Exhibits&id=36
The crafty bits:
First baby-food jar project that I’d let within a mile of my house.
Maybe under the canopy in the garden?
http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/Homemade-Home-Decor/Baby-Food-Chandelier.aspx
Friends for your desktop.
http://www.obviousfront.com/
There are a few of you who will have to turn away from the screen for
this one. But I laughed myself silly.
http://www.duccutters.com/UnknownTrikes/Originals/apedesmosedici.jpg
DucCutters has lots of other projects many less violently wrong than
the one above.
http://www.duccutters.com/index.tpl