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Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled hermes handbags, handbag shops + handbag friends:
Sally said, "I believe that Hermes may well be copying me. Really. They are. Look. Here's a page from Sue Heap and my HANDBAG FRIENDS: and here--from a recent exhibition in London, "Leather Forever"--is this picture: "Kelly Neon"..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled what's it about--the story or the writer?:
Sally said, "Margaret Wise Brown loved reading as a child and remembered all the stories she read but none of the authors. "It didn't seem important that anyone wrote them. And it still does seem important. I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Picture books and Margaret Wise Brown:
Sally said, ""A book should try to accomplish something more than just to repeat a child's own experiences. One would hope rather to make a child laugh or feel clear and happy-headed as he follows a simple rhythm to its logical end, to jolt him with the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled famous naps and nappers:
Sally said, "UNIDENTIFIED NAPPER THOMAS EDDISON LBJ NAPOLEON Do you feel sleepy? Seeing all those famous nappers napping? Do you nap? I do. Sometimes. But i'm not very good at it. Maybe I could get good. Salvador..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Dick Bruna and Miffy:
Sally said, "I love Miffy. She is so simple. And I know what that means--there's a huge amount of work that got her to look that simple. Dick Bruna, the creator of Miffy said: "I would love to be able to draw like a child, so spontaneous, so open-minded on..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Paring away, simpler and simpler:
Sally said, "Dick Bruna's drawings of Miffy only allow for very miniscule changes to indicate emotions--the position of eyes, the length of the ears, the shape of the mouth. "That's all you have. With two dots and a little cross I have to make her happy..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled She's not sick, she's a dancer:
Sally said, "Picasso said all children are born artists. But we don't grow out of creativity, according to Sir Ken Robinson. We are educated out of it. Here's Sir Ken Robinson at TED being very funny and very right about creativity... and the education system..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled what part is work?:
Sally said, "Having just come back from almost two months of traveling all around (some of it working, some of it not so much) it was a bit of a shock to come back and face Sitting-at-a-Desk Work (as opposed to Galavanting-Around Work).Imagine my joy at finding..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled "Song Of The Stars":
Sally said, "And high above a single star set in the highest heavens shone out brighter than all the others and poured down silver onto the little shed... "A Light to light up the whole world". {Song of the Stars} When Zondervan asked me to write a..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Playing The Ryman:
Sally said, "The Ryman. Most famous former home of the Grand Ole Opry. The stage musicians long to play on. Legendary.Musicians say when they Play the Ryman--(because you don't "play at the Ryman", you "play the Ryman")--no matter how famous they are--they are..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Six Golden Tips for Tea:
Sally said, "With the start of the new year, we are all turning over new leaves. But are you turning over a new tea leaf?Is your tea flavorless? Insipid? Bitter? Ordinary? Or worse… Cheesy? Here, just in time, come the six golden tips for making the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Beauty For Everyone:
Sally said, "When you walk through Central Park you feel like you've have escaped out of the city into the countryside—you are surrounded by natural beauty. Except that it's not. Natural, I mean. The space where Central Park was built was..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Picture Books and Accounting:
Sally said, "One December, I found myself looking back over the year wondering, unhelpfully, in a businessy tax-ish counting sort of way: "Now let's see, what exactly did I do this year?" (I should have known by that "exactly" where this would go). So I began..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled The Crystal Cathedral:
Sally said, "If you'd told me a couple of years ago, I'd be appearing in a big cathedral with a full orchestra and choir and with a former Miss World—I’d have laughed. Don't be silly. I never would have beleived you. But then again, if you'd told..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled The Good Doctor:
Sally said, "People often ask me, “Are you related to THE Lloyd-Jones?” To which, of course, I respond ... “But I AM the Lloyd-Jones.” Of course, what they're really asking is: “Are you related to THE Doctor David Martyn..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Spin Wisdom:
Sally said, "Is it just me? Or are spin instructors saying these profound things? Lately, as I pant and sweat and spin my way along at top speed going nowhere, I’ve been noticing there’s all this motivating cycle inspiration. (Wait! I feel a..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Nemo:
Sally said, "The Blizzard came and transformed the city. Before the snow ploughs and the footprints and the salt and the dirt could arrive, I got up early to capture it. I stepped out of my apartment—and into Narnia. Complete with lampposts. ..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Happy St David's Day:
Sally said, "Today is St David's Day. So... Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus! St David (seen here in a stained glass window from Jesus College, Oxford) is the Patron Saint of Wales. In the 6th century he helped spread Christianity among pagan Celtic tribes of..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Writing jokes, songs and picture books:
Sally said, "Ballet dancers can make floating in the air look easy, make balancing en pointe look effortless. But the only reason they only can do that is because they have spent hours and hours training, putting their body through torture. They can do it only..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Spaghetti Harvest April Fool:
Sally said, "First broadcast on BBC Panorama on 1st April 1957, a very young Richard Dimbleby revealed the wonderful world of Swiss spaghetti production to millions of deprived and hungry post-war Brits. (To be fair, back then Spaghetti was not eaten much and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled Spin Wisdom:
Sally said, "Is it just me? Or are spin instructors saying these profound things? Lately, as I pant and sweat and spin my way along at top speed going nowhere, I’ve been noticing there’s all this motivating cycle inspiration. (Wait! I feel a..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:22:26 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled If Kid's Wrote Movies:
Sally said, "A friend sent me this. So well done. And so true. If kid's wrote movies... The film makers asked some children to pretend to be a salesman and a customer. Here's what they came up with: SL."
Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:17:16 PM
Sally Lloyd-Jones wrote a blog post titled I'm moving my blog to my site!:
Sally said, "my new site Hello Friends! Sorry for the radio silence but I've been busy getting a new website ready … and at last I can let you know…it's here! I will be blogging from there now so I hope you'll come too… (NOTE:..." more