Flower Bunny Necklace from LOOKAjewelry

After posting a flurry of rabbit images, I had to follow up with this necklace from LOOKAjewelry. I met Liz awhile back at the Providence Open Market and have been in love with this necklace ever since. It's silver. It's a bunny. It has flowers. What could be better?

Visual Vocabulary: Little Rabbits on Flickr

After recalling the book The Little Rabbit, I went and looked all some little rabbits on Flickr. Hope they make you smile!

I may just do some bunny cards regardless. Forget about timing!

1. Bunny, 2. Our first run in with bunnies (06/2005), 3. Bunny, 4. Macro-Bunny, 5. beautiful baby bunnies, 6. Baby Bunnies - Day 16, 7. Flopsy Bunny :), 8. Bunny Paws, 9. Tiny Small Bunny, 10. bunnies bunnies everywhere, 11. Flopsy Bunny :), 12. MILKA, A TINY FLUFFY BUNNY-SNOWFLAKE

The Little Rabbit

We're having some late winter (please?) snow this weekend, and in an effort to think myself out of a February funk I tried to visualize how I think of "spring." I totally intended to do Easter-themed Gocco cards and was playing around with a few designs, but Easter is coming so early this year that time seems to have gotten away from me. Then, suddenly, this book popped into my head: The Little Rabbit by Judy Dunn. I used to read this with my parents and sister all the time. In fact, my Dad and I did our own "publication" that probably drew a lot of inspiration from The Little Rabbit (and just might be a future blog post).

My childhood copy is well-worn and well-loved (and still around somewhere, I hope). There's nothing better than recalling the memory of a good book that also involves images of bunnies and buttercups.

If I struck a nostalgic cord, there are used copies of the book available online!

More Space, More Things?

My husband and I live in a very small urban space. Very small. So I squelch my inner collector in the hopes that it will maintain my sanity and a sense of order in the apartment. Two things I have a real weakness for, though, are vintage kitchenware (especially pretty plates) and old ephemera like photobooth pictures and postcards. Right now I keep a collection of Victorian postcards and old photobooth snapshots in an album.

I was so inspired to see the way Lisa Congdon arranges her collections of similar items (via Poppytalk). Maybe someday?

Gocco Printing on Wood

Over the past few months I've been charmed by wood veneer stationery making the rounds in the blog world (Oslo Press and Night Owl Paper Goods have particularly lovely designs). All this veneer, along with the current faux bois trend, got me curious if Gocco printing would work well on wood. The news I heard from other Gocco'ers wasn't encouraging, but I decided to give it a go--- mostly because a wood veneer wholesaler was kind enough to send me a whole package of samples to experiment with before I decided to place a big order.

Above is the result. The ink took well, and the image is true to the design. My only concern is that the wood veneer is too thin to hold up for correspondence--- the corners have already bent. I think I will hold off listing any in my Etsy shop until the quality is perfect. The wholesaler does have a "postcard weight" veneer that may hold up better.

I'll follow up with another post!