d.Sharp Journal

Thanksgiving giveaway!

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.    - Emerson

We are celebrating Thanksgiving with family down in the desert. {The pleasant weather is our reward for really unpleasant traffic} Thoughts of thanksgiving and gratitude for family and friends on the front burner, and of course, the yummy meal to come on the back burner. {okay, maybe the other front burner}

Anyhow, I am sure you are feeling the same sense of gratitude. So I had the idea for a little giveaway. Do you have one person who you would really like to send a little token of thanksgiving to? Let me know in the comments who that person is {no names, just "my friend who.." or "my mom is..."} and something special about them. I bet it will feel good just to think about that person. I will randomly pick 3 comments and send a little something to those special friends for you - a vintage map box {above}, stuffed with a couple of Pix French macarons, {trust me - worthy!} with a little 'you mean the world' tag. I will also include a little note from you and the packaging will be perty.  Sound like fun?

Comments will be open on this post until next Thursday, December 3rd at 5 pacific.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best,

Denise

Ah-em

My very, very talented friend Rory is book artist and letterpress printer. This past year, she partnered up with a few other artists and started Em Space Book Arts Center. It is so lovely and such an inspiring place. Balastrade and Bitters captured this all in their feature on Em Space, HERE. Go take a look...see! Isn't it awesome?

Also, some great shots from this Flickr stream, including pic above. I hope to introduce you to Rory soon!

Fairy tale photos

Hansel and Gretal as illustrated by photographer Annie Leibowitz for Vogue. See the rest here.

blow up

Tim Burton has a show opening next week at MOMA - that would be great to see! Fun little animated short, my consolation.

Back!

I had SO much fun teaching at SilverBella - I honestly couldn't ask for a better group of teachers and organizers, nicer students or a more spirited environment. { and also couldn't ask for a better group of girlfriends to be my practice students}

Thank you to all my students for being such a blast to work with {especially fun making the birdie above} and for their generosity  - chocolates, ornaments and other yummies.

Gals, it was great hanging out with you.

Teacher Anna and Theresa - the {whirlwind}woman behind SilverBella - sit on my lap as we squeeze in the booth

With Organizer and Roommate Extraordinaire Cori. We are both wearing our aprons {the theme for vendor night} -- I made mine from perforated business cards, a one woman walking raffle. {prize - glitter heart}

and here with Charlotte - who is just plain great. I hope {fingers crossed} that I get an opportunity to do it again next year.

WEE!

Hi all,

I am  in Omaha this week, teaching at Silver Bella. Having a lot of fun and looking forward to the classes on Friday and Saturday.

There was a post or two that I wanted to get together while I was gone - but need wireless for my mac. The daily rates are INsane. So, I am in the bus. center  - I know, really lame that I can't seem to do anything on a PC. Even linking to Silver Bella - so I will tell you all about it when I get back!

Have a great week!

Best,

Denise

sympathies

Today, wishing the victims and families in Texas and Florida the comfort of peace.

Like many people, I am sure, I try to work daily to remember all that I have to be grateful for.  I want to have that sense of gratitude tethered to me at all times, but caught up in the bustle of life, it can fall away. Events like those in TX and FL are a rude reminder of how horrific a person can be; at the same time it reminds me how many, many more good people there are in this world. Sterling people I may know for a lifetime, a passing acquaintance, someone whose actions, even in the smallest of ways, restores my faith that there is good. Chances are, you are one of them - thank you.

lovenotes

My heart breaks - this is such a sweet child.

Artful clutter

Definitely digging this house in the Times. Plus , 90 acres in the Catskills - oh, to be there this time of year!

 

for this Halloween

We escorted Merlin and Captain Hook through the neighborhood. They were calling for rain, but we seriously lucked out with the weather - especially because part of C's Hook costume is made with coffee filters. M's Merlin costume was great at keeping him warm, although he later ditched the felt beard.

You night remember that C has a real sweet tooth, needless to say he was ecstatic about going door to door and asking for candy - both of them 'shopping' the bowls for their favorites, despite our reminders not to. However, they both told us they were done for the night and we skipped a block or two on the way home.

 

We let them have a couple of pieces that night and then they have the choice of keeping the candy or picking out a dozen pieces {to be doled out} and trading the rest in for a small toy. Do any of you put any limits on the candy for your kids?

hope you had a great Halloween!

And yes, success. Only one piece on Saturday and one piece on Sunday and the plan is no more - I will miss it.

{Did you see that Colbert Report where he is waxing poetic about the wonder of sugar and that it is Jesus's dandruff? That is what pops into my head now when I think about it.}