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Name: Laura Lou
Location: Idaho, United States
Gender: Female
Interests: greeting cards (or, just paper in general), children's books, poptarts.
Expertise: spilling/dropping something at every meal.
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Member Since:
12/14/2005
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Huzzah! Come by and visit—bluebirdcards.com is officially up and running. (We even have a free hi-res image library! It's small, but growing.) So fun . . . and all thanks to Austin. :)
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| Today, Lucy assigned me to work on a new cover for Sketches of Home by Suzanne Clark. I really like doing book covers, honestly. But just as honestly, they don't come naturally to me. Rachel Hoffmann can whip them out like you wouldn't imagine, and David Dalbey has got concepts that won't stop, but . . . I'm a little more scatter-brained. I find it wickedly difficult to make the cover tell a story. Torn between illustrating a tiny, close-up "character sketch" of some chapter or an elephant-boned, broad brush "plot" view, I get confused, press all the wrong buttons, and ultimately have to use the ejection seat. Still, like I said, I really enjoy it.
And, as promised posts ago, a tattered quilt of Miniatures and Morals covers, attempting to explore different aspects of the book, all in various stages of undress and rejection. I couldn't find all of them, but enough is enough.
          
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| Cards, cards, cards! I have cards on the brain.
At present, it seems to work best if we order eight designs at a time (free shipping!). We've got the first half of the next order done--these four are from a book by Charles Kingsley called The Water Babies. Has anyone read it? Personally, I think it's a little exasperating, like a Lewis Carroll minus the wit:
"I can't learn my lesson; do come and help me!" And one cried, "Can you show me how to extract this square root?"
And another, "Can you tell me the distance between a Lyrae and B Camelopardalis?"
And another, "What is the latitude and longitude of Snooksville, in Noman's County, Oregon, U.S.?"
And another, "What was the name of Mutius Scaevola's thirteenth cousins' grandmother's maid's cat?"
Zuff. But the illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell save the book. At least for me.
   
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| Evangelical Theological Society. San Diego, California.
Lucy
and I are hanging out in this big exhibit hall on Day 2 of the
conference. We knew we were in the deep end of the pool when somebody
asked, "So, what's your corporate identity?" Toss me the arm floaties,
please.
Everyone (those who stop and look that is) seems
intrigued by our "literature for a life less petty" line, so that's
encouraging. I'm guessing at least half of these people have never
heard of Canon before, so it's good just to be seen. I'm trying to give
away all these catalogs, Audio Dept, I promise.
The funniest
thing is being at a conference where you're not seeing familiar faces
all day long. We're with the body, but at the same time, there's
nothing like home sweet arm (or whatever part of the body you happen to
hail from).
San Diego has been fun so far--last night Lucy and
I ate REAL Chinese food and went to Sephora. Ah, the little joys. I
think we're getting real carne asada burritos tonight and might just
have to shamble back to the mall. Did I mention there's an IKEA too?
Yipee! (Christa, I already bought you a Christmas present.)
Well, that's all for now. Next time (when, 4 months from now?), a little Miniatures & Morals cover art amusement.
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