oy has been featured a clever wordy treasury.  Hopefully this one will find its way to the front page for an hour of fame. Thanks CeeVeeArts!

o, I played around with some bookplate designs today. The pix are way overexposed and don't show the really pretty vintagy cream color that I chose for the labels. Also, there's some blurriness, but the bookplates look fab in person! I have lots more ideas swirling around in my head. These and more will soon be available for personalization and purchase in my shop, in packets of twenty. I'm even talking to the hubby about doing some custom designed one-of-a-kind bookplates. Awesome.

Mermaid:

Knights:

Dancing Dragons:

Hormonal Hattie:

tsy seller SuzannaAnna does magical things with words for your wall. She has so many wonderful designs, I spent close to an hour browsing, drooling, wishing that I had all of them. I think they'd look pretty smart plastered all over the wall above my writing desk. Typography has always fascinated me, alas I suck at it. SuzannaAnna does not. It was so hard to choose, but since I've sat on John Lennon's lap, I was compelled to love this set of prints featuring the Beatle's Blackbird lyrics:

blog reader has surprised me AGAIN today, with a gift worthy of Royalty. This spectacular pen, which I jokingly suggested in an earlier post, would make a fine birthday gift for yours truly, well, not ten minutes ago, the FexEx man rapped upon my door, and there wedged between the door and the screen I happened upon a box containing a box containing a box containing a pen. Very exactly like this one here. 

I think it's definitely safe to say, that this here pen is mightier than a sword. And also, so is a MacBook. Which makes me ARMED & DANGEROUS. Watch out wollode, here I come. 

And Juni, you spoil me. Thank you, my anonymous friend and benefactor. 

etterpress drives me wild, and I have long dreamed of one day owning one of the amazing mysterious magical contraptions. Here is a clever new use for letterpress type - a belt buckle - designed and handmade by Steel Toe Studios. 

Their Multifont Buckle is cast in lead-free pewter from actual letterpress pieces. The brand new recycled rubber bicycle tire belt is sold separately. The whole ensemble can make your librarian jealous for under a hundred bucks. Heck, it would make me jealous. Belt buckle: $45 Belt: $38

ehold the beauty of the Remington Rand #5 typewriter. This lovely piece of machinery debuted in 1935, with a special self starter button (red, bottom right) which made for automatic indention. Hit it once for a five space tab, twice for ten.

It was also the first model to adopt the graceful art deco lines, utilizing curves where past writing machines were boxy and cumbersome. In my opinion, it is the prettiest typewriter of them all.

And I am now the proud owner of this gorgeous machine. Hoorah!

have always been a huge fan of bookplates, also known as Ex Libris, meaning "from the library of" in latin, and I have been meaning to start designing them for quite sometime. I don't know why I haven't.

Today I stumbled upon a fun blog, Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie, which chronicles one man's obsession with vintage bookplates. I had such fun browsing the site, and can't wait to design some bookplates of my own!

Check out this super sassy vintage bookplate I came across today... ooh-la-la!

efore you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.
-Jack Handey

 

Jack Handey is an old favorite among my family. At Christmas time, when we rent a big house and cram all bazillion of us in it, you will find small groups of us huddled into corners poring over various Jack Handey books, usually with tears in our eyes from laughing so hard. This is where my literary genius comes from.