The holidays seem pretty far off still … but it’s not too early to get thinking about holiday cards!

New in the shop, available individually or in packs of 8.

I love love *love* the muted colours of Feaverish’s photography, especially in this amusement park series (prints available on Etsy).

Ferris Wheel

Originally uploaded by feaverish

flowers from my sister



more in my flickr stream 

Congratulations to Mayra, the winner of our acorn postcard set giveaway!

Thanks everyone for entering - check back next month for the December giveaway … I’m planning some changes around here and to celebrate the giveaway will be super-deluxe!

xo

Hey there, it’s time for our second giveaway! This week you can enter a random draw for a set of six chatty acorn postcards (with room in their speech bubbles to write your own message). To enter, just leave a comment, and answer this question: do you still send handwritten messages? Or has technology taken over that department?  Looking forward to seeing your responses!{ Comments will be open between now and midnight Sunday, eastern time. } 

Thank you thank you thank you, to everyone who said yes.

update: I made this into a little poster that you can download over at designforobama.com. (There are some amazing designs over there!)

image © Stockton & Co.

Some liked Nancy Drew but I was a Trixie Belden girl. Actually, I was a Harriet the Spy girl. Regardless, I am loving this secret camera book over at  fred flare! Somehow though I think my high awkwardness factor would prevent me from successfully using it.

photos : fred flare

Managed to get a few shots of our Thanksgiving (Canadian) centerpiece before they got all mottled and weird looking.

This is a feature I’ve wanted to add to the blog for a long time … as you may have gleaned, I love book covers. And, wonder of wonders, I also love books! In this first installment I’m going to focus on fiction. I’m not really going to do reviews per se, mainly because as a reader, the only kind of reviews I find helpful are the ones that say ‘this is like this other book by that author you like’ etc. But I can say that these are all books that I have read in the past year or so that have blown me away. Would I steer you wrong? No I would not.

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July

The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake

Actually I think I’ll leave it at just four for today. I’ll continue with more bookshelf posts next week, and maybe add a rotating bookshelf permanently to the sidebar … if any of you read these or have already read them I’d love to hear what you think. Or, tell me what’s on your book shelf these days!

Look at these beautiful notebooks by Studio Violet (a joint venture of Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker) …

(photo: Studio Violet … see also their blog for more work)

I love this colour palette so much, it reminds me of my all-time favourite King Penguin book cover:

… so I had to get them. And a postcard set too.