Jot down outdoor observations and more in this pocket-sized journal. Pages can alternate between blank and ruled so that there is plenty of room for both notes and sketches.
from Handmade Books for Everyday Adventures: 20 Bookbinding Projects for Explorers, Travelers, and Nature Lovers
by Erin Zamrzla
Keep track of your favorite baseball team all season long. With baseball card covers, you can pay homage to your favorite players too.
from Handmade Books for Everyday Adventures: 20 Bookbinding Projects for Explorers, Travelers, and Nature Lovers
by Erin Zamrzla
Here are a few things that caught our eyes this week.
* This list of 22 Unbelievable Places will inspire wanderlust
* These hand-stamped waxed canvas garden markers from Imagine Childhood are absolutely adorable!
* A Japanese funeral home celebrates the cycle of life with these stunning images using pressed flowers.
We had a great time at the 2nd annual Brooklyn Food Book Fair in Williamsburg this month—sharing news of our books and meeting the staff at some of our favorite magazines, including Lucky Peach, GATHER, and Modern Farmer. We’re looking forward to an even bigger and better festival next year!
Here are a few things that caught our eyes this week.
* Dwight Garner’s ode to the “splendid little book club”, the long-past ritual of bedtime reading to his now-teenage children.
* Next time we’re in Paris—a pretty picnic delivery. Mais oui!
* Perhaps it’s time to add more plants to our bookshelves. . .
* These instructions for the perfect roast chicken are, well, just perfect.
Here are a few things that caught our eyes this week.
* Elissa Altman’s profile of her Poor Man’s Feast book tour sounds like a literary food-lover’s dream sequence.
* We’re loving the look of these moveable magnetic plywood tiles. Art project meets home design meets endless possibilities.
* This calendar feels like one-part craft, one-part linguistic parlor game, and I love it.
* The newly launched Digital Public Library of America looks like an amazing new resource.
* We’re excited to see what wonderful activities Mariah has planned for her Playful Learning‘s One-Room Schoolhouse.
* This beautifully graphic print also shares ten good ideas for daily living.
* Earth Week is a perfect opportunity to spring clean and spruce up your recycling habits—thank you, Design Sponge, for the comprehensive roundup. Consider yourself bookmarked.
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re giving away a copy of Leap Write In! Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind.
To enter, leave us comment of your own creation. We’d love a poem, riddle, rhyme, or anything that comes to mind!
If we’ve gotten your creative juices flowing and you want to keep going, download a free exercise from the book here.
Here are a few things that caught our eyes this week.
* Husband and wife team, Andy and Jenny from Dinner: A Love Story, have created 100 Rules of Dinner, 50 for each of them. While I don’t agree with all 100, these are great and funny rules to live/cook by and I’ll be passing it along to all the cooks in my life.
* On love. Simply perfect words from Saipua. Gorgeous flowers.
* If only there were 30 hours in a day, I would be at this luncheon tomorrow in Boston with Yvette van Boven!
To celebrate the release of The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family’s Life with Art & Creativity, we’re hosting a Pinterest contest with author and blogger Jean Van’t Hul. Read the instructions in the image below and pin it to win it!
Contest ends Friday, April 18. Good luck!
Winner Chosen:
The winner of the Artful Parent Arts and Crafts Pinterest contest has been chosen! We worked together with Jean to pick our favorite of the kids’ arts and crafts boards. Narrowing it down wasn’t easy! In the end we chose Jacqueline Smith’s board which is full of fun projects and creative ideas for kids.
