LJ Fibers

Check out Laurie Lausen's blog "L. J. Fibers at The Wooly Red Rug" and her made-over web site at www.woolyredrug.com. Very nice!

An artist I'm enjoying: Wendy MacNaughton

I discovered Wendy's work on a cool online magazine called The Rumpus. To check out Wendy's work: http://wendymacnaughton.blogspot.com/ or her website wendymacnaughton.com.

I love the Rumpus tag line: "Part of working is not working." You'll like the writing and comics. Rumpus also has a book club that reads and discusses unreleased books before they are reviewed by others. I gotta get me that Rumpus mug: "Write like a motherfucker."

Must be Santa...or Maria Barton Star Rug Company

Check out the groovy giveaway from Maria Barton!

http://starrugcompany-maria.blogspot.com/

Typographic Trees

May 12, 2010 New Yorker
1,000 Words: Typographic Trees
Posted by Lucy Tang
Great images of books from around the world and the Web.

The artist Gordon Young and the design studio Why Not Associates created fourteen typographic tree sculptures for the Crawley Library, in West Sussex, England. I wonder which books they chose to sandblast into the wood.
(via Creative Review)Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/05/1000-words-typographic-trees.html#ixzz0nptdLXfW

Inca Knits

http://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/417206018_inca_knits

Here's a posting for the staff scavenger hunt on our new catalog.

That Voodoo That I Do

I do one thing, and I think only one thing, really well: parallel park. The subliminal geometric calculation undertaken to shear a car with one turn of the steering wheel into a parallel parking space is a pleasure for me that rivals pure bliss. Imagine my delight to find that others dwell in the possibilities of the perfect parallel parking maneuver. On NPR today: "The Formula For Perfect Parallel Parking".

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122880263&ps=cprs

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

I love poppy seeds. I still remember a poppy seed cake my aunt Elinor made at Grandma Jodie's decades ago. Ever since then, if it has a poppy seed in it, I'm on it. While checking out a delicious blog named Tartlette, I fell into this recipe for Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Meyer Lemons. Need I say more?

http://www.mytartelette.com/2009/01/lemon-poppy-seed-cake-with-meyer-lemon.html