wedding · save-the-date · baby · event
button · fabric · favors · hand drawn · illustrated · kraft · layered
letterpress · packaged · pattern · ribbon · stitched · twine · vintage · wood
wedding · save-the-date · baby · event
button · fabric · favors · hand drawn · illustrated · kraft · layered
letterpress · packaged · pattern · ribbon · stitched · twine · vintage · wood
“We must remember how children learn rather than how we teach. Through movement, through emotions, through activities, through projects—all the basics fit in. And they’re learning without realizing they’re learning.”
A Touch of Greatness documentary film about the remarkable educator Albert Cullum. Watch another trailer here.
Andy suggested we watch this and I’m so glad we did. What a freaking awesome teacher.
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I’m so glad I was able to see the beautiful work of Carl Auböck in person at Mondo Cane Gallery in Tribeca. I think it closes today. Go see it if you can!
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Made by Massimo Lunardon as a special production for Sweet Bella, these ‘bombons’ are for pencils or flowers or any small thing (or nothing at all).
Pincushions
Designed and made by a couple in Japan. The husband crafts the keyaki (Japanese elm) base and the wife stitches up the squares of vintage kimono fabric she’s collected for many, many years. Colors will vary.
MR. BRUSHSHOE natural beech and horsehair shoe brush
Located in the former Home for the Blind in Berlin, the workshop which produces these brushes employs fifteen blind artisans using traditional craft techniques that the Institute for the Blind has developed over the last 120+ years.
along with these via I’m Revolting
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From Nicole
End papers and tile page for The Small One
Illustrated by Marian Ebert
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The Cantilever Rainbow
Title page and end papers
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The Old Animals’ Forest Band
Illustrations by: Durga Bai
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Cats and Bats and Things with Wings
Poems by Conrad Aiken
Drawings by Milton Glaser
Published in 1966
More books this week!
Vintage Pop-Up Origami gift to Elsa from some awesome friends. Complete with paper and instructions.
Nicole:
One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Oak Knoll Books in New Castle, Delaware. They specialize in books about books, so they have shelf after shelf of books about: book collecting, book design, book illustration, bookbinding, bookplates, fine press books, papermaking, printing history, typography & type specimens, and writing & calligraphy, plus it’s all housed in an old Opera House.
Here are a few items I have found on my last trip to Oak Knoll.
German type specimen book for Fiori.
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Albert Helm Prints
Great color combinations.
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A Book of Type and Design
Oldrich Hlsvsa
Erin’s picks
The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer. The story of three robbers and the little girls that inspires them to change their ways.
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The Princess in the Forest by Sibylle von Olfers.
The princess lives in a castle in the forest. The nature folk of the forest are her friends and companions. 
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Benny and the Binky by Barbro Lindgren and Olof Landsröm.
Benny wants a binky like his little brother, but his mom (and everyone else) thinks he’s too old. You can just feel Benny’s struggle in this sweet story and illustrations.
Nicole and I are going to share some recent book purchases this week….
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NICOLE’S PICKS
Last week, while attending an amazing reading by my husband at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, I had the chance to check out their awesome book store.
I love children’s books, and they have one of the best children’s book sections ever! Here are a few books we brought home with us.
Big Fish
Far far away on the sea, there once was a small island of fisherman.
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A Book of Lines
A coloring book with no lines just color.
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All By Myself
Once there was a littte girl named Alison, who could do many things all by herself.
