tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35345590089541128522024-02-19T07:15:47.409-08:00Dewey in the SkyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-51060688521511681142011-07-14T05:59:00.000-07:002011-07-14T05:59:27.254-07:00Reading...<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://vulpeslibris.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/historyoflove.jpg&imgrefurl=http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-history-of-love-by-nicole-krauss/&usg=__aV2J2wtTBxkpAUTShbjwaD3CgJY=&h=480&w=309&sz=53&hl=en&start=7&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=-vSEYCpFLgF70M:&tbnh=129&tbnw=83&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bhistory%2Bof%2Blove%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D591%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=--UeTo36BIyEhQfFiMGnAw" id="apf6"><img height="129px" id="ipf-vSEYCpFLgF70M:" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTftaAqTw1ldZNemDGH2yiZPvXKzaNYcfWUstEEQVxAtbr2l7kENQlwfg8" style="border-bottom: #ccc 1px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="83px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Loving this...part narrated by a 15 year old Alma, this is a story of lost love and the horrors of the holocaust but it is <a href="http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Histoflove.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Love&usg=__Eo3YSDAz15R60HsvswiyFcwfOaI=&h=234&w=153&sz=31&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=A1bnuwmdL93DrM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=71&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bhistory%2Bof%2Blove%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D591%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=--UeTo36BIyEhQfFiMGnAw">much more</a>. I give it full marks. Nicole Krauss is married to Jonathan Safran Foer of <em>Everything is</em> <em>Illuminated </em>and <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em>. The couple live in Brooklyn and I have a crush on this very cool couple.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-82571396848164447372011-07-06T04:46:00.000-07:002011-07-06T04:46:03.759-07:00Are you a digital native or immigrant?<div style="text-align: justify;">I see that Marc Prensky of <a href="http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf">Digital Native and Immigrant</a> fame is coming to <a href="http://www.dcu.ie/president/STage.shtml">DCU in September</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-59894075457513955542011-07-05T02:14:00.000-07:002011-07-05T02:14:29.162-07:00Reading...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://swampland.com/img/Image/calemine/mangonedownbymichaelthomas.jpg&imgrefurl=http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:state_of_the_art_tennessee&usg=__MkTmnJiBThdedkuAb2JwZQoKkG4=&h=500&w=350&sz=29&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=V7f8CCrbYVbhMM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=91&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dman%2Bgone%2Bdown%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D591%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=QtUSTs7ZMZO4hAfUopHiBg" id="apf1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="130px" id="ipfV7f8CCrbYVbhMM:" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5gwx4r9mIKPV9InG1NkeOP74Slzt08S4OWUWN44eg1xdJh8unAIlaXmHi" style="border-bottom: #ccc 1px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="91px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table>...but this time inside. How long would it take to build up a collection like this?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-16641800643124168002011-06-15T02:15:00.000-07:002011-06-15T02:15:04.901-07:00Organised<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">I find well organised shelving comforting. In foodie terms its the Sausage and Mash of Interiors. It calms me. If only I could catalogue and classify everything....</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-31323834556390418402011-06-03T04:06:00.000-07:002011-06-03T04:06:09.422-07:00Give credit where credit is due<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-39169" height="750px" src="http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/5p.jpg" title="5p" width="530px" /><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">The print above created by <a href="http://blog.piajanebijkerk.com/WordPress/">Pia Jane Bijkerk</a> and you can purchase via her website. I am so bad at giving credit where it's due. Mostly because I saved a picture on my hard drive and didn't reference properly. This is dealt with above - "so get a better filing system" . Oh the shame when a librarian is told to get a better filing system. I therefore pledge that I will credit absolutely everything I put on this blog from now on. Consider me told.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-1015208351582743562011-05-31T09:01:00.000-07:002011-05-31T09:01:55.903-07:00Shelving again...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The image above is free shelving that can be sourced from the back of the supermarket. Do you recognise the boxes I have my magazines stored in below? I think there may be some left in the cataloguing room. Covered in vintage wallpaper.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Remember I was saying that me and First Born were picking wallpaper for her room.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is what she picked. Do you think my love of 60's and 70's all things vintage is rubbing off? </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Me thinks so! It's called <a href="http://www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk/">Flot</a>. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-47347410174805173722011-05-20T08:52:00.000-07:002011-05-20T08:52:48.932-07:00The Classical and the Modern<div style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="320px" src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/decor8blog/ixxi_11.jpg" width="213px" /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">This is for Machinetown (in reference to your recent illustration corner) via <a href="http://decor8blog.com/">Decor 8</a>. The beauty of classic art in a modern setting. It needs no more.</div><br />
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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="213px" src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/decor8blog/ixxi_5.jpg" width="320px" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-69327544294550155972011-05-20T08:42:00.000-07:002011-05-20T08:42:25.096-07:00Mild Hoo Ha and 3 hour loans in the Junior Section<div style="text-align: justify;">Google and tag <em>that </em>heading if you dare...The 23 bloggers have stepped it up a notch this week with such hilarity. I've been laughing out loud at the comments. From dinner party discussions to hoo-ha's and radical behaviour. This is a small intense group of mad people. How could you explain this madness to others.....librarians rule.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-50773999897619667222011-05-19T01:53:00.000-07:002011-05-19T03:29:07.656-07:00We own a tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiawyt5gHLK6ozVNw_oLjVpMxzbx3FF6H6aTg1ASelpmRdoTVT8PbDLMUPA5cviH0uJEyKRUdREOBhWg69Cq7QVYFib3xCgAoUg5X3uSpgfUpOgburK_QZ8GlblFM3vfrKFhnCN14CoX4/s1600/Front+garden+tree.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiawyt5gHLK6ozVNw_oLjVpMxzbx3FF6H6aTg1ASelpmRdoTVT8PbDLMUPA5cviH0uJEyKRUdREOBhWg69Cq7QVYFib3xCgAoUg5X3uSpgfUpOgburK_QZ8GlblFM3vfrKFhnCN14CoX4/s320/Front+garden+tree.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the greatest pleasures of buying a house after renting for over 10 years was being able to put up a shelf or drill a hole in the wall (him indoors can testify that a lot of our walls now have a lot of holes in them). When I say drill...I mean hack a nail in - usually the wrong type of nail - and causing untold damage. But it's our damage and ain't no landlord going to keep any deposit for that. Another great pleasure was planting a tree. Owning a tree. (I know I know...putting down roots...barf barf). See our tree above.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-62329216614920045262011-05-18T03:50:00.000-07:002011-05-18T03:50:32.812-07:00My Beautiful Eames<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNF51wcAOt9ysjlUa-w7AjWcSXLlUDhPMDTy1MPp_F1PMlXV28snGRYI3O_OiNn8G3QmZVP6yulIUsWPA4E-oEK8i08fbvwoe_H7BqMbEpiz9UHLX5j5C504FhT8x3Mp-JjMKfVpKPBo/s1600/2011-05-17+21+06+18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNF51wcAOt9ysjlUa-w7AjWcSXLlUDhPMDTy1MPp_F1PMlXV28snGRYI3O_OiNn8G3QmZVP6yulIUsWPA4E-oEK8i08fbvwoe_H7BqMbEpiz9UHLX5j5C504FhT8x3Mp-JjMKfVpKPBo/s320/2011-05-17+21+06+18.JPG" width="240px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cushion on top made from material from one of my daughter's old dresses.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-33128483041651421942011-05-17T06:22:00.001-07:002011-05-17T06:22:40.407-07:00Oh to have the climate for this<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNs15ozoeIQ5-CDpR7-yqW_AbnZJivvRAgC7XxmW7ify_UJBld74JK5OQvvvD8NPLaLsySITFmXn9rvRlMZWBKfQ7U27KEKfVKnqdz78a_MMRZWIIYxJcOEJySYFpUZzpuKc9p_5yI62w/s1600/20110225103434a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNs15ozoeIQ5-CDpR7-yqW_AbnZJivvRAgC7XxmW7ify_UJBld74JK5OQvvvD8NPLaLsySITFmXn9rvRlMZWBKfQ7U27KEKfVKnqdz78a_MMRZWIIYxJcOEJySYFpUZzpuKc9p_5yI62w/s320/20110225103434a.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-27179044278968087952011-05-16T04:52:00.000-07:002011-05-16T04:52:47.059-07:00The Eames Chair...there is no better<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="image" src="http://emmas.blogg.se/images/2011/spring_ii_1392_146167890.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Above is the Classic Eames DSW Chair. This picture via <a href="http://emmas.blogg.se/">Emma's Blog</a>. There is no nicer chair in the world. I have one (just one) in my kitchen in white. This unfortunately is not my kitchen. See more grey!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-54152896073378604332011-05-11T03:59:00.000-07:002011-05-16T04:54:06.353-07:00The Brocante<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a class="highslide-image" getparams="null" href="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-04lrg.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The <a href="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/">Brocante</a> is held on the third sunday of every month. The coffee is great and the music is always good. I might see you there. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="highslide-image" getparams="null" href="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-04lrg.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" src="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-04thumb.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /></a><a class="highslide-image" getparams="null" href="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-13lrg.jpg" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" src="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-13thumb.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /></a><a class="highslide-image" getparams="null" href="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-09lrg.jpg" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" src="http://www.thebrocantemarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feb20th-09thumb.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-72859935682133384202011-05-10T05:50:00.000-07:002011-05-10T05:50:34.734-07:00Tile Collection<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358399922969174306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicmTWJo7Ii6FEdH-3jHdO1MzccwFpv-u54UIVBxPR8tTFTLsCndRJ8i91I03jtfZajqSvinmlNpkbP8DXIrm2MPVIWT8gUI9NA1Sp6qmZyqQH3DIqc7tcXNw1HX-HubWfWc7YUTbuyaPRL/s320/DSCF1112.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br />
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For Pitseleh: You can make out half the collection. My mother brings me back tiles now as well! Not very robust. I lost a tile or two during the big snow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-45896689339401297312011-05-10T02:13:00.000-07:002011-05-10T02:13:42.288-07:00Sometimes the best things in life are...50p<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-BXj7qpLjCmdGo62vYPiQlpgrJyc9u0ldYa8pRtctL65th8am5JLYc7NA4AhPTzd1kWlwm1jL1vC-uBi19Pm4UHAsrkIYNzKGM3pamjx8boTS8DGo-9oLI_mOOGMPrpVt_1VZ032kh0/s1600/House+2007+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-BXj7qpLjCmdGo62vYPiQlpgrJyc9u0ldYa8pRtctL65th8am5JLYc7NA4AhPTzd1kWlwm1jL1vC-uBi19Pm4UHAsrkIYNzKGM3pamjx8boTS8DGo-9oLI_mOOGMPrpVt_1VZ032kh0/s200/House+2007+2.JPG" width="200px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Kiwi tray for 50p. One of my favourite things. I have a thing about trays, wooden spoons, cups, and tiles! When I go abroad I always buy a cup or a tile. I have the tiles stuck on my wall out in the back garden from all over the world.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-37957669839095475612011-05-06T08:42:00.000-07:002011-05-06T08:42:11.143-07:00Library Thing<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pIGxvJJi8HbWaTgmJmVR-5ix5ah_75V0mXCFR-HomH6KiELrOn_sh7-XvdATDyMEXROdJWZY_GJ29ErpQcFKY3lLhWKcHCafU2tkwwaX20cwPdycLD3ihJKgJucXu4VTRWRjKnLN804/s1600/2011-05-05+20+31+07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pIGxvJJi8HbWaTgmJmVR-5ix5ah_75V0mXCFR-HomH6KiELrOn_sh7-XvdATDyMEXROdJWZY_GJ29ErpQcFKY3lLhWKcHCafU2tkwwaX20cwPdycLD3ihJKgJucXu4VTRWRjKnLN804/s200/2011-05-05+20+31+07.JPG" width="200px" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQmQH-9usrg_6am1fxpSwg-tmF7BKo6OYE7oMt6Pb2nBD5dlwVzKaekCnlSl5FT2Nvc-jFNYLhqo9pnIhcO6D4Ne8V1A8PokEghHGOEFRgxdK9Mi7xZDgi7zyVmzYILAyGg0UAIXEU64/s1600/2011-05-05+20+31+29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQmQH-9usrg_6am1fxpSwg-tmF7BKo6OYE7oMt6Pb2nBD5dlwVzKaekCnlSl5FT2Nvc-jFNYLhqo9pnIhcO6D4Ne8V1A8PokEghHGOEFRgxdK9Mi7xZDgi7zyVmzYILAyGg0UAIXEU64/s200/2011-05-05+20+31+29.JPG" width="200px" /></a>I joined Library Thing 2 years ago and its slick - but I keep forgetting to update and I have found myself weirdly uninterested in recommendations or what other people think of the book. It's information overload. I read the Booker Blog intensely each year for about 2 months coming up to the award as I read the shortlist every year and love the discussion and the argument for a short amount of time by a small amount of people on a small amount of books. But I do like Library thing - it's an excuse for another list. I love lists. Ticking off a list gives me great pleasure. So I see this as an electronic list to go along with my other paper and pen ones. I also keep a handwritten list of books I read. There, I admitted it too. I will explore it more from the library point of view though.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have asked Library Thing to change my user name and it may take a week for them to do that apparently as I join a queue so I'll link to my page when that is done. For now here are pictures of my "real" Library Thing as opposed to my "Virtual" one. I have books in every room in my house. I have them on the floor, in the loo, over my wardrobe, in the hallway. They are not in Dewey order but there is an order to them - fiction, non-fiction, college material, Irish language, history and all authors are together. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcSG3n_b7uOotaV1PevzMMt6CyG0E1JxCZhgGE74mLMVPHmOVQxSu1Yfi-XWRdXtje4Wf2cGxwuI2KnmbKX_km3BIZD5819nlt-vzKeIXGwjW7TS7m5ocWYAtfd1Mc3KGfgQqSY599no/s1600/2011-05-05+20+56+55.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmArZreT7EtTpoM9jeXaaEfgzIUFInSInR6xCFt0nMplhgDOAiGtyBOdDVMOCVP5CVORRLGSLm8pKlqozRzd-Xdrl1sBb55fdG3xYZ0ktoK6KPPmNBJd-sBVHuuoqrgffEaOrHc77Y8Zo/s1600/2011-05-05+20+40+52.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmArZreT7EtTpoM9jeXaaEfgzIUFInSInR6xCFt0nMplhgDOAiGtyBOdDVMOCVP5CVORRLGSLm8pKlqozRzd-Xdrl1sBb55fdG3xYZ0ktoK6KPPmNBJd-sBVHuuoqrgffEaOrHc77Y8Zo/s200/2011-05-05+20+40+52.JPG" width="200px" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkAwFjmsX4cpJf-a948SoIxrZWTyulaoDP1uE0e-aiGNwe6PaQ5pipLy0YT3guwrqwWuphS2NVaZH2L2q925U9wXUuhQkhA5QleWTgPt-BmoUD-i1F2itfIfbYTh4RDNaebIfN8HIjWs/s1600/2011-05-05+20+32+02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkAwFjmsX4cpJf-a948SoIxrZWTyulaoDP1uE0e-aiGNwe6PaQ5pipLy0YT3guwrqwWuphS2NVaZH2L2q925U9wXUuhQkhA5QleWTgPt-BmoUD-i1F2itfIfbYTh4RDNaebIfN8HIjWs/s200/2011-05-05+20+32+02.JPG" width="200px" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534559008954112852.post-48990456876353644962011-05-06T05:30:00.000-07:002011-05-06T05:30:11.374-07:00The Ideal Bookshelf<div align="justify"><img alt="Image of Ideal Bookshelf 161: NPG (8x10" or 11x14" print)" class="product-img" src="http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/32492612/300.jpg" /></div><div align="justify">I noticed on <a href="http://machinetown.blogspot.com/">machinetown's</a> blog the book illustrations. <a href="http://shop.idealbookshelf.com/">Jane Mount</a> is a New York based artist who will paint a picture of the "perfect bookshelf". So you tell her your favourite all time titles and she will reproduce in the painting. Genius.</div><div align="justify"><br />
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