That bad apple looks good! I’m putting it on my (special) list. I am glad Mr. Hemingway and Miss Vernon (ah, how I love HER tale of friendship as well) went to the Orchard despite deadlines. Thanks for that lovely post, for the music and I am crossng my fingers for you at your talk…you’ll knock their socks off!

Jules:
I love his quote—The best you can hope for is to make your best work in your own voice. I really enjoyed seeing all his art and how the idea came to him for Bad Apple. My favorite visual–Elephant Lane outside at night.
I know you are doing well with your presentation. I am so wishing I could be there. I really like Dogwood Blossom.

My kicks for the week:
1. Continued cooler weather
2. Seeing Theo (my tree frog) changing color and probably seeing him for the last time
3. Walking along the Lake Michigan shoreline yesterday
4. Reading wonderful picture books and two wonderful MG books this week.
5. Working in my gardens, getting them ready for winter
6. Visits to my favorite bookstores and public library plus getting new books in the mail
7. Walking with Xena

Have a wonderful week everyone.

Hi there, Edward! Thank you for sharing your art with us. Best of luck with your creations and your classes. Happy birthday!

Jules: I have now come to expect cute little mice at 7-Imp. Have a wonderful time at the conference today. Yay for your awesome daughters.

JES: I obtained The Night Circus from the library and will read it later this month, if not this week. I’ll let you know what I think. Thank you for the recommendations!

Hi lisainberlin!

Margie: Shorelines can be so, so pretty. Hi to Theo.

My kicks from the past week:
1) One of my screenplays made it into the next round of a contest for filmmakers, which means it’s getting a reading this Wednesday. I’m extremely excited. The finalists are determined by the votes of the audience, so I hope they like what they hear! After a few more rounds, the top 3 scripts get funding to produce their short films.
2) Being on set
3) Writing
4) Reading
5) Research
6) Music
7) Leverage continues to inspire me as a writer and as an actor. Looking forward to the summer season finale tonight!

Jules,
Thanks so much for another great post! I hope you’re having a wonderful time at the conference and am sure you’re doing AWESOME!

Margie-I also love that idea from Edward about “The best you can hope for is to make your best work in your own voice.” And walking along the shoreline sounds lovely

Kicks for the week:

1. Finally started posting about my classes! Here’s the initial post where I explain how I’ll be posting: http://alice-peregrinations.blogspot.com/2012/09/come-follow-along-with-me.html

I’ve already posted about Catcher in the Rye and a few posts on fairy tales!

2. Started reading Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm and love it! It even gave me an idea for my paper in my fairy tale class

3. Discovered this priest from Minnesota (Fr. Mike Schmitz) and he is literally one of the most AMAZING and FUNNY people I have ever heard. Even if you’re not religious you should watch this less than two minute video, it’s hilarious and will make you smile and maybe even laugh out loud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNVBg3a_qaA&feature=related

4. Taught my first art history class of the year, and I think it went well, I got the kids talking, almost all of them said something from the 5 year old to the 15 year old, it was great!

5. Was walking to class Tuesday morning and was surprised when I realized I wasn’t dying of heat or sweating, but there was actually a cool breeze instead of a humid wave of thick air!

6. Emailed my 8 fairy tale questions to Cornelia Funke! I am so excited, she is literally pretty much my favorite author since ages ago and she responded to me on facebook and told me she would love to talk to me about fairy tales!!

7. Finally coming back to 7imp and kicking this week, it just makes me feel so happy and love to hear about everyone

Have a wonderful week!

Little Willow- I hope you enjoy The Night Circus!! And would love to hear your thoughts on it, I read it last year and loved it and am planning on rereading it this Oct/Nov

Oh, Edward’s work is lovely! I feel inspired now, just to be me (and possibly a better me than I used to be)! I also am excited to read The Night Circus (it is staring at me from my bookshelf). Getting a kick out of my kids reading and doing their homework (voluntarily) right now, beautiful weather, getting ready to send out a new postcard this week! All best to Jules and friends of 7-imp!

Happy Birthday, Edward. Love these spreads, especially Bad Apple looking into the sunset.

Jules, enjoy the conference.
1. Fall
2. Visiting my home town for the first time in 25 years
3. On top of my MFApplication
4. A fabulous illustrator agreed to an interview on my little blog soon
5. this blog has been the inspiration for my own illustrator series this year.
6. Finally thought of a present for my best friend’s wedding next weekend.
7. Read CHAINS this week and as a foreigner, it is the first book that has really touched me about the American revolution

Hey everyone!

I’m super-busy this afternoon but couldn’t resist stopping by for a brief visit. Love seeing everyone’s kicks, as always, but I’m afraid I’ll just have to leave this cardboard box of my weekly 7 kicks on the 7-Imp floor for y’all to rummage through at your leisure. They’re all very nice ones and I know each of you will fine something you like: there’s a movie rec, and a music video, and, well, you know how the world is sometimes too much with us? Yeah. THAT.

(Aside to LW and other [actual or potential] Night Circus groupies: I posted a looong and awfully-close-to-spoiler-free review of it yesterday.)

Edward’s work is lovely.
I’d love to see Sara’s cupcake and Edward’s apple meet one day. Thanks for sharing.
Jules-Music and dancing is very important. I’m sure you are rocking it at the conference.
Hi Lisa
I love all of your kicks Margie. Sounds like a wonderful week.
L.W.-Congrats on your screenplay, Yay!
Welcome back Jess!
Nina- Hooray for new postcards. Can’t wait to see it.
Joanna-I’m glad you got to go home. Sounds like a long time coming.
J.E.S.-The World! Right!

Kicks

1. Cookies in the mail (thanks, Nina)
2. Trumpet in the mail
3. Arty girl who doesn’t like sports has joined the cross country track team?!
4. Tweak, tweak, tweaking my website.
5. Hero husband fixed the dryer.
6. Went to the Danforth Museum with my sister to see “Picture This”, a juried picture book artist show. http://www.danforthmuseum.org/picture_this2012.html
7. Music once again helped me cope with a loss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bausG809hv0&feature=related
Here is a post I wrote a while back about my neighbor. We’ll miss him.
http://moirart.blogspot.com/2009/07/walking-my-baby.html

Have a lovely week all.

I love Edward’s stuff. I hold him up there with Sergio Ruzzier in being one of those incredibly distinct and stylish, somewhat surreal/weird (in the best way!), dreamy pic book makers working today. Great post and behind-the-scenes coverage!

[…] those.) So imagine my surprise when I saw that the very same Edward Hemingway was the subject of a Seven Imps‘ post this […]

Love the artwork today! I hope you went well this morning Jules!

Jess congrats on the art class, I hope I remember to read your blog about it when I am more awake!

Moira, trumpet in the mail sounds very sophisticated and cool.

I am loving my time in the US so far. Kicks include:
1. First sighting of chipmunks today! They are faster, smaller and even cuter than I expected!
2. The multitude of free museums and galleries in DC - loved being able to pop in and out without feeling like I had to the value out of an expensive ticket
3. Trying lots of foods on my US hit list, plus bonus ones like s’mores at someone’s house during the week (what a clever invention )
4. Seeing all of the different houses in different areas, so many of them just looking American and cute
5. Perfect weather for walking all over
6. Great pressies found include baby Halloween costumes for friends’ babies (we don’t celebrate in Aus)
7. Cute American accents

Thanks, Lisa — and everyone! The talk went well. Whew. That’s done.

Margie, now that was a week full of rich kicks — gardening, bookstores, walking, reading. I love walking and not just ’cause Walker is my maiden name.

Little Willow! Kick #1 is so terrifically exciting! CONGRATS! Fingers crossed for you! I can’t stop using exclamation marks! Keep us updated. Please.

Hi again, Jess! So glad you’re enjoying classes. I hope to read about them at the link you shared, once I get caught up on stuff. Also, I think my daughter will like the Inkheart series. I keep telling her about it.

Hi, Nina! Thanks, and all the best to you, too!

Joanna: Shucks. I’m happy to read 7-Imp was a good kind of inspiration. Do you know I’ve never read Chains? Gotta fix that.

John, I’m good with cardboard-box kicks. (I like that idea.) Have a good week!

Moira: Thanks for the music. I had no idea Willie Nelson had musician sons. Sorry about your loss. “Picture This” sounds like it was fun, though, and a highlight of your week. And cross country track? Really? YOU GO.

Hi, Matt. Thanks!

Emmaco: You’re here! I had fun just reading your kicks. S’mores! Wow. I wish I lived near D.C. and could meet up with you. And you don’t celebrate Halloween in Australia? This is the Thing I’ve Learned From You This Week.

Just to be clear the trumpet is for my son and my arty daughter is doing cross country. I am sitting around eating cookies

Moira: Gotcha. I wholeheartedly approve of the sitting-around-and-eating-cookies.

Jess from Alice in Baker Street: Hurrah for your lineup of new classes! Have fun sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm with your students, and reading a fairy tale a day. Remind me next week, and if I’ve read the book by then, I’ll certainly tell you and JES and the Imps at large what I thought, and I’ll read your review then, JES!

Nina: You have a cool name. Anyone know which book made me like that name?

Joanna: I hope it was a happy homecoming.

Thanks, Moira. Sorry for your loss. Music is wonderfully therapeutic.

Emmaco: Please say hello to the chipmunks for me! Have un in the States!

Thanks, Jules! I’m all kinds of flattered. And motivated.

Also, Jules, I saw someone today who looked enough like you to make me think, “I hope Jules is having fun at the conference!”

Little Willow: Yes, the conference was fun.

Which book made you like the name Nina? I’m stumped.

[…] that seemed too daunting, to pick the best things that happened this summer (there were lots!). So, with a nod to Jules at 7 Imp (who does this every WEEK – how dedicated is that?), I am presenting, in no particular order, […]

Oh, I hear ya on Rufus Wainwright. Have you heard him sing What Are You Doing New Years Eve? It’s my favourite holiday song - I could listen to it in July.

I don’t have a weekly list but I did a Seven Summer Kicks on my blog! (I think it pinged you.) Cheers!

By the way, have you seen this? Graphic novel edition of A Wrinkle in Time! With preview!

http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/09/a-wrinkle-in-time-the-graphic-novel-comic-excerpt

Hi, Christian. Those were fun to read. Raspberries are the best, and “writing is revising” speaks to me right now.

I’ve read about that graphic novel but haven’t seen it yet.

p.s. Christian: No, haven’t heard Rufus sing that yet. I MUST!

I was about to write this comment, when I saw Matt’s note above. Over-kind of him, especially knowing his exceptional standards.

What I wanted to say, is that Ed’s work is going to become indelible, thankfully. I can’t say the same about most people publishing today.