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the fabulous garlands 

sophie cuvelier

happy thanksgiving,

with love & blessings

to all of you

design: victoria thorne

photo: rick e. martin for the mercury news

School's Out for Summer

Will be taking a blogging break, here, for a bit.

Still posting at victoria thorne design. See you!

Looking for Buried Treasure? We're Camping Out at Victoria Thorne.

We're giving ourselves a little vacation and only posting 

on one blog right now...it saves on holiday cheer, 

and will certainly help ease into the new year. 

Just click HERE to get to where we are now. 

See you there!

Our boy's room, here.

Over the River and Through The Woods, II

over at the other blog, we're focused on thanksgiving...

thought we'd give you a tiny bite, here

(more on the book, soon: it's one of our 

all-time favorites in the universe)

Space to Read: The Room for A Boy

 

We'll be featuring more of 

our design project 

here in the next week...

plenty of ideas for space to read in.

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Ahoy and Avast! A Boy's Room

We're doing a little bit on

design for children over here...

design

victoria thorne

Wandering Weekend: Fairy Tales

Okay...etsy.

How wonderful is this?

My grandparent's house in Connecticut was called "Oak Knoll." I've always loved acorns most especially because of that. And here are acorns to wonder at.

Love etsy. Check out the Time Machine.

Good Stuff.

We are cooking up some nifty goodies here at art.books.children, and find it rather time-consuming. Please know that there will be more on books and authors and illustrators and other such magnificence soon.

Until then, we'll probably visit etsy once or twice. It's just so YUMMY.

Click here to take a look at these fairy tale cards...and then wander around a bit.

Above, a bit from our table design @the Circus Club in Atherton...

Want to floss the definition of T.K. by you...

T.K., from here on out (as far out as I can see, anyhow), in these blogs (art.books.children and victoriathornedesign), is Thorne Kids. Because, about a hundred times a week, I think in the language they have brought home, which is not always the language of the American Heritage Dictionary (which I adore). And writing "as my kids say..." seems infinitely boring to me, so I can only imagine what delirium it would inspire in you, dear reader. 

So, T.K. says...that'll be it.

Example? Our redhead wrote, recently, from somewhere on a train in Europa: "So peace and love everyone, feel free to call me anytime, I'll floss my amazing travels on you a bit."

Here, there are several things going on:

• I was very happy (nay, thrilled) to hear from him.
• I was hoping everyone didn't actually call him, at least not for more than 3.5 minuten, because of our prospective at&t bill.
• I was amused by the peace and love part, harkening back to backpacking-through-Europe dreams of the 60's. 
• I'd never heard floss used this way, and--unless it's a typo on the train--it seems quite marvelous to me. And apropos.

There you have it. Whatever it is. 

Peace and love, everyone, feel free to call me on this. As long as you are in the continental United States.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and Choices

Although I mentioned this a few days ago in the other blog, I actually got to watch the full TED talk this morning.

This is a remarkable woman, who has been through a somewhat unimaginable challenge, and emerged as an advocate for making--every day--personal choices that are worth making. (This short paragraph will be clearer, methinks, once you watch her presentation.)

An added plus: for a moment, in the presentation, you get to see a real live brain (but not in, any longer, a real live person). I think this is mammothly cool, but, if you get queasy about such stuff, just close your eyes and listen. It will be worth your time.

Remember, as you watch, that she is a brilliant physician that has been through a near-death experience that few of us (I hope) will ever have, and that she was able to categorize and catalog (to an extent) the brain's information as she went through the stroke. She has emerged, 8 years later, a changed person. She actually has, as they say, seen the light.

Also, here, a wonderful article about Dr. Taylor in the New York Times. So...what does all of this have to do with kids and books? It has to do with the choices we all make, the choices we teach our children to make, and the way we live our lives. That counts, right?