My 1st Annual Holiday Gift Guide:
For the friend who would appreciate more noise from their pencil: The Drawdio Kit.
For the person who needs a more pleasant kind of paper cut: Nikki McClure stuff
For anyone awesome you want to drop $130 on: You can make a muppet at FAO Schwartz. A MUPPET!
For the person who likes to give with the gift you gave: Kiva
For Jaime lovers: A Three Bears print
For everyone: Books! Books! Books!
Think my ideas suck? Then go browse around for that perfect something this weekend at Urban Craft Uprising. If you’re not in Seattle, or you just want to stay home try Etsy. Or make something yourself.
People are painting their hands (via Make).
A few of these links are a week or two old, but I saved them for you so here they are.
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast featured Robert Neubecker, who illustrated my friend Deb Lund‘s fantastic Monsters on Machines.
Just One More Book interviewed Writers House agent Rebecca Sherman.
You probably heard about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt freezing acquisitions. Anastasia Suen reports that the hold doesn’t apply to the Children’s Division, and it’s not that big of a deal. Good news, but we still know that publishing is hurting. Buy more books!
MotherReader interviewed Lisa Papademitriou, who will be at the SCBWI WWA conference in May.
I’m obviously having a hard time blogging regularly.
I always think I’ll be more productive when the weather cools down. More time indoors for household tasks, writing, crafting- but I’m never as productive as I plan to be. The kids get sick, company is coming, holidays…. I’ve been reading a lot, and writing a lot. Just not here. I’ve been reading blogs, too. A lot of new blogs from the Comment Challenge. There are a lot of fabulous blogs out there with good information. Anything I would have posted was already posted all over the place and it felt redundant. I think I had blog burnout.
Last but not least, I applaud anyone who attempted NaNoWriMo, or had big goals like 5,000 words a day last month (like Holly and Jolie). You are inspiring and I applaud you!
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December 1, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Holly Cupala
I love the ‘raffe hand! Will have to show it to you-know-who, who is nuts about ‘raffes. Thanks for the shout-out! Tho I did exactly zero words today, I did some other important December kind of activities. There’s always tomorrow…!
December 2, 2008 at 12:49 am
CocoaStomp
That hand painting is so clever! I’ve only been painting MY hands to look like hands.
I think you and my mom and Nana are the only Jaime lovers, but I’m really proud and happy with that group. I know quite a few Jaime tolerators — Aaron is president of that group.
Please blog more. I don’t think you are ever redundant.
December 2, 2008 at 5:49 am
Deb Lund
The monsters had a great time in Japan taking pictures of all kinds of machinery (not the real monsters). They spent more time at construction sites than at the palaces. They’re jet-lagged, humbled at your mention — and they love Jaime to pieces. That’s how monsters love, you know. And YAY for our nanofriends!