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Hi, everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend. I am still recovering from a bit of a cold and from the LA Times Festival of Books. Today I am coming to you with a recap of a fun event that I was a part of a couple of weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago on April 5, 2014 Bridge to Books was lucky enough to host picture book author an illustrator Salina Yoon at Unwind Yarn in Burbank, CA. The event fell on the weekend of the LA Yarn Crawl which made for a doubly fun event. There were cake pops, yarn, exclusive Penguin knitting patterns and lots of laugh. (All photos courtesy of our friend Katie Ferguson. Thanks, Katie!)
As part of the festivities we had amazing cake pops made by Alethea's cousion Adri, owner of Maskipops. They were delicious and so cute to boot. Obviously my favorite was Penguin but there were also hearts and yarn balls.
This is an awesome DIY cookie jar that Salina made. She bought the jar but added her own Bear sticker. Adorable!
There was a nice crowd there of both adults and children. After everyone settled in, Salina read from her book Penguin in Love. Penguin is an adorable penguin who knits and has many adventures. In his newest book, he finds a new friend. After reading Penguin in Love, Salina read from her newest book Found (pic above).
After reading time, it was drawing time. Here, Salina is showing the audience how Penguin and Bear are based on really similar shapes.
Then Salina signed lots and lots of books. All in all a very fun day. Big thanks to Unwind Yarn for hosting and to Salina for being a wonderful speaker as always. Also thank you to volunteers Katie, Kimberly, Laura, Cris, Dornel and to Once Upon a Time for being on hand to sell books. If you'd like to see more photos from the event, check out the Flickr set here.
Hope you enjoyed this brief recap. Happy Tuesday!
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browns and pinks are my new favs in yarn lately!
Melanie
I didn't know your birthday was this month. We gotta celebrate in San Diego!
Yes! I don't think I got you & Kimberly anything for your bdays, so maybe a cookie party is in order for SDCC ;)
There is a ghiradelli downtown. Ice cream!
OOOH no!!! http://www.yelp.com/biz/chocolat-cremerie-san-diego CREPES & ICE CREAM!
Red is my favorite!
what time are you coming on friday? we gotta plan an outing. and remind me to send you the secret back way directions to san diego.
Ooh sounds like a neapolitan... :)
I have a TON of red yarn. :D
Pink for the win! :)
I have been in love with yellow ever since reading Extra Yarn actually! I loooooove yellow. :) This is tons of fun!
I love natural colored yarn such as cream.
I haven't read this book yet - definitely will after reading this post! Thanks for offering this giveaway!
July is my birthday month, too (7/5)! And I love this book (I got it for my school library but I sure would like a personal copy!). My favorite color is grey; it pretty much goes with everything. Thanks for the giveaway! :)
Oops, that Unknown user above is me, Yukari. Sorry, I was logged in to my work account.
Love this book. Convinced my school librarian to buy it as well. This heroine is just who I want to introduce to my students.