Old Book, New Clutch

September 20, 20122 Comments

I’ve seen these kind of purses by famous designers and local artisans, but I’ve never seen a DIY tutorial. Head on over to see kate sew for the how-to. Soon we can all show off our literary style.

(image: see kate sew)(via Design Mom)

Novel Tea

September 17, 20121 Comment

Anyone else want to go to the Novel Tea Cafe as designed by artist Woody Harrington? This would make for a pretty awesome cafe/writer haunt:

Click through to check out the rest of the Novel Tea Cafe portfolio.

Another reason I love this branding–the literary journal I edited in college made major use of “tea” puns as well.

(via Design Work Life)

Find Your Passion

August 22, 2012Leave a comment

Kind of in love with artist Lisa Congdon’s work. Her series of quotes is fantastic, too. I especially like this one:

Good advice for pretty much anyone. Work like writing can be hard, especially when there’s a lot of rejection involved. Staying tremendously interested in stories can help you move forward through those hard times in your writing career.

It doesn’t look like this image is up on her Etsy site (yet?) but I’d love to have a print and hang it above my desk. Great writing inspiration!

(image: Julia Congdon)(via A Beautiful Mess)

A Slice of Chapter Five

August 17, 2012Leave a comment

Guys, this isn’t a pile of books. It’s a cake.

Baking and writing together at last! Make sure to click through for lots of other amazing book-inspired cakes. I especially like the writing on the Twilight cake.

(image: Boulby’s Bakers & Confectioners)

Claudia Kishi Still Has the Best Style

August 9, 2012Leave a comment

A Tumblr devoted to recreating Claudia Kishi’s outfits from The Baby-Sitters’ Club?

Best. Idea. Ever.

My favorite so far:

Might have to incorporate this look into my fall/winter look.

(H/T Brookline Booksmith)

Links Galore

August 7, 2012Leave a comment

A few more links for today:

YA characters aren’t the only ones who like to use lists. Check out these examples of great lists in literature.
Awesome interview with author-illustrator Peter Brown.
Not sure why you’d need to buy sets of color-coordinated books when you can organize books you already own by color.
Glad Young Writers Workshop is flourishing even with the new setting. (Also, assistant director Jeff Martin was my fiction counselor back in ’01. Way to lead, Jeff!)

Books and Their Readers

July 20, 2012Leave a comment

Love this print:

I think this is one of the awesome things about books (and art in general). They can affect you in such a deep, personal way. And it doesn’t even have to be as direct as “I read a book about skateboarders, and I’m a skateboarder, so I felt emotionally moved.” Books and other art can have such a deep resonance that it doesn’t have to be based on anything you can put into words. But you know that the book is part of you.

(image: Perpetual Thoughts)(via eff yeah nerdfighters)

Cruise Through a Book and Other Awesome Book Posters

July 19, 2012Leave a comment

These retro book posters are adorable:

(image: Enokson)(H/T The Paris Review)

Cover Stories

July 18, 2012Leave a comment

Love this six-year-old’s description of classic novels based on their book covers. Her version of The Great Gatsby sounds pretty exciting:

“I think it’s a book about a haunted theme park and it stars a magical magic guy and he’s good and evil and he’s trying to get rid of the ghosts. And I think at the end, since it’s haunted by a ghost, he tried to make the park go on fire and it did.”

Not gonna lie–I’d read that.

When I was little, I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was about a girl who got bitten by a rabid squirrel. Why did I think that? I guess it had to do with the rabid dog. But squirrel?

(H/T bookshelves of doom)