new podcast just up

I was interviewed on Children's Literature (!) by my friend Graham and the podcast is now up on his wonderful new parenting site Tumblon.com.

happy quilt: Run and Fall

"Run and Fall" Quilt by Denyse Schmidt. More here.

happy lego day!

there's no such thing is there? why not? shouldn't there be? after all it would make a lot of smallish persons very happy well anyway here's a happy lego birthday cup cake I came across: Isn't he beautiful? and what about these: and Betty Crocker even has a recipe to make them... the trademark lego studs are marshmallows (of course): here. (BONUS: I found other wonderful lego madness: a lego salt and pepper here and a lego timer here.)

feeling rained on

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." - E.L. Doctorow (b.1931)

happy quilt: What a Bunch of Squares

"What a Bunch of Squares" Quilt by Denyse Schmidt. More here.

Baby and Boxer say hello

this is so gentle...

fairytales

Concept painting for Sleeping Beauty, Eyvind Earle (1916-200)

improving book sales

On December 3rd, in 1926, as if caught up in one of her own plots, Agatha Christie disappeared without a trace. Her abandoned car was found in a chalk pit seven miles from her house. Police and the public organized search parties. The whole country was riveted and the story got loads of media attention. Then, 11 days later, Agatha Christie turned up in a luxury hotel. She had assumed a different name, and claimed she couldn't remember a thing. It had been a hard year — her mother had died, and her husband had left her for his young mistress. To this day, no one knows if she really did have amnesia, or if it was a big publicity stunt to raise book sales, or a way to publicly expose her husband's infidelity. But all the media attention made her even more famous, and she ended up as one of the best-selling authors of all time. Excuse me but I now need to find an emergency chalk pit.