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Wednesday was one of those days.

You know. One of THOSE days.

Nothing especially horrendous happened, but when a string of coffee spillings, eyeglass misplacements, late to work gettings, rude cell phone intrusions, tailgatings, client kvetchings, kitchen sink pipe cloggings and gym shoe forgettings occur, nothing brightens your day quite like a cowboy bunny maniacally flailing on the back of an annoyed giraffe.

You know what I'm sayin'? I think you do.

sketched out

This is something I illustrated for the Bright Baby Bunny Kit (Highreach Learning 2006). I also got to design and/or draw the puppets for the kit. I learned that my sewing background came in handy and hope to get to design more puppets, toys or dolls in the future.

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Bunny likes to dig holes in your front lawn, eat all the yucky vegetables from your dinner plate and get lots of nice cuddles.
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I thought I'd post a work in progress piece. Unfortunately, once I get going, I forget to stop and take pictures. This sketch shows my original idea. I love her face, but was afraid it was too commercial. I've heard that comment before.




I use a purpleish color here. It's actually called indigo blue, but it has a purple cast to it. I had to erase this color a bit on the lighter areas. It was just too much.



Here she is, clipped in Photoshop out of her background.

'Thug Bunny - Click to see larger version of art.'

A few years back me and another designer almost started a new design firm together. One of the names we had kicked around at that time was "Thug Bunny." I liked the name so much I secured the domain and lately I've been thinking about that name and decided I needed to illustrate it.

The above art is the result of this recent inspiration.

Looky! I finally did something especially for the Monday Artday topic!

This little guy was just downsized from the story I'm working on, so I guess its OK to show his sketchy development without getting in trouble.



He only made it this far ~ he never got to be a fully rendered bunny. {sniff}



He was supposed to look like he'd been "flung" and landed in the snow, so the challenge was to draw "flung but not hurt" poses.
















This is how he ended up on the last page. I can tell you that there are other flung animals as well, who used up other "flung" poses (I'm loving that word...flungflungflungflungflung).


Oh well. Maybe he can get flung in another story.

I feel I've been neglecting my needle book posts..so I'm going to try to catch up a bit. We've had a busy time recently, mainly because we just bought our first house! We didn't think we could afford one in Toronto, and were planning to just buy a slightly bigger condo, but after not really seeing anything we liked, we extended our search a bit and found a little house just at the edge of our budget. I keep telling people that it's very small (it's a 1-bedroom bungalow), because I don't want people to see it and be disappointed. I have to admit that my first reaction on seeing the house was to laugh, because it looked so tiny. But while it also needs redecorating throughout, it definitely has potential to be a really lovely little home. We'll be moving in at the end of July and I'll be sure to share our decorating pictures then.

We also had a trip to New York city recently, and stayed with a friend in Hoboken. Lucky for me he had already found the "ribbon district" and had lots of great shopping tips. The ribbons at the top of this post are all from M&J Trimming (1008 Sixth Ave.), a store that will dazzle the ribbon lover, but also has buttons, lace, purse handles etc. All my favourite ribbons were from the front of the store, in a section devoted to embroidered ribbons, with many fancy ribbons imported from Europe as well.
To balance out this splurge, I also found these lovely ribbons (above) at the Textile Museum sale last week, the place where I like to stock up on crafts supplies for the coming year. The one on the bottom is my favourite - many thanks to my friend Sarah who found it first but let me have it!

Around the corner from M&J Trimming are more ribbon, button and bead stores, including the Martha Stewart recommend Tinsel Trading (Tinsel Trading 47 West 38th Street New York), and a similar store I discovered called Store Across the Street (Store Across the Street 64 West 38th Street New York). And if you're in that neighbourhood, I recommend the beautiful Bryant Park nearby as the perfect place to have a drink and sit down and look over your new ribbons. There are lots of little iron table and chair sets for anyone to use.We also went to a couple of flea markets. At the first outdoor parking lot (junky type) flea market I found a beautiful antique compact for $5 and a Noel Streatfeild book I hadn't heard of (New Shoes) for $1. It was across from an expensive looking indoor antique mall which we didn't visit (too much to do, too little time!) The second flea market was a few streets over in a parking garage. We could have spent hours in there but were getting a little tired and hungry.And speaking of ribbons, I picked up these bargains at Kate's Paperie on Broadway in Soho which was having a moving sale. This was also near to my other favourite stores, Pearl River Trading, Anthropologie and Kate Spade.And last but not least, my catch up wouldn't be complete without finally sharing the adorable little rabbit made for me by the lovely and talented Susan!

Maggie

Happy Easter

via What I Have Read

You can find a list of all of the books that Mr. Leuliette has read (since 1974) listed on his site.

whatihaveread.net/FAQ

Q: Would you please be kind enough to explain the history behind this web site?

A: My mother started keeping the list when I started the first grade. My school asked parents to keep track of what books we read as part of its reading program. She kept the list until 1977 and I've kept the list since I was in the fifth grade.

Cover for the weekend entertainment section of Florida Today newspaper. In Brevard County, Florida, we celebrate Easter with a surfing contest and egg hunts. Find your Easter eggs here.