From the Purple Shuttered Cottage...
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windinthemaplesHow did I not know and why did nobody tell me?! Since last year's release of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mermaiden's The Dark Wife, I've daydreamed about adding her books to my library, all alphabetized and official-like. There is absolutely nothing, with the exception possibly of attending my son's dance recital, that has the sort of swelling pride joy, thrill, and rightness with the world than seeing the books of friends on my shelves. I have, and love, lathriel's The Poppet and the Lune. radshaun, my best friend from high school, has copies of his The Deathday Letter shelved between Marguerite Henry and Eva Ibbotson. I have two copies of The Dark Wife--one signed by Sarah to me and the other signed by her generically for that day I meet someone who simply must receive my spare copy.
I'm not against ebooks, but neither do I love them. Daniel bought me a Kindle as a surprise birthday gift back in October and I've only charged and used it this week for the first time. I don't mind reading webpages, newspapers, journals electronically but I want physical copies of books. I don't want to see a digital photograph of something Graeme made in ceramics--I want the misshapen coil pot itself! I don't want to view my friends' publishing efforts--I want to hug them and stack them and alphabetize them and plant them on park benches and slip them into book exchange boxes around town. I want them to have substance and to live, live as only a print book can.
So, color me completely shocked to be toodling around on Amazon, buying Crumbs and Far for this new Kindle thingy and discovering that Sarah actually has more print books than just The Dark Wife. (I'd think I'd have known this. WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS?! Did you know this?)
I did some remedying of the situation. For $28, free shipping, I will soon receive huggable, autographable, shelvable copies of:
* Hallow's Eve: A Halloween Fairy Tale
* Cage the Darlings
and
* One Solstice Night
~*~
So, in other news from the ladies of the purple shuttered cottage, The Fable Tribe, their new shop on etsy, had a huge update last night. They unveiled a bunch of new products--little sparkly animal 'faerie foundling' figurines, floral crowns and hair flowers, a rainbow of glitterful star bobby pins, shrines and stamped clay altar pieces, and even large Glamourkin wall plaques. I watched some of the update as it happened and then ultimately went to sleep and revisited the shop at 4:00am when Elena woke up to nurse. Thanks to my phone and some impulse purchasing, I ended up with five of their new treasures. :D I got:
This fairy crown to wear for Midsummer.
"Embody Peace" Faerie Foundling
"Cherish the Simple Things" Faerie Foundling
Gold Pixie Stars
Magic Mini Shrine
~~
If you bought anything, what did you pick up? :) I'm most excited about the foundlings and tucking them onto my windowsills with my vases of seaglass and other little treasures. That's become my altar to family and our home here.
mermaiden's The Dark Wife, I've daydreamed about adding her books to my library, all alphabetized and official-like. There is absolutely nothing, with the exception possibly of attending my son's dance recital, that has the sort of swelling pride joy, thrill, and rightness with the world than seeing the books of friends on my shelves. I have, and love, lathriel's The Poppet and the Lune. radshaun, my best friend from high school, has copies of his The Deathday Letter shelved between Marguerite Henry and Eva Ibbotson. I have two copies of The Dark Wife--one signed by Sarah to me and the other signed by her generically for that day I meet someone who simply must receive my spare copy. I'm not against ebooks, but neither do I love them. Daniel bought me a Kindle as a surprise birthday gift back in October and I've only charged and used it this week for the first time. I don't mind reading webpages, newspapers, journals electronically but I want physical copies of books. I don't want to see a digital photograph of something Graeme made in ceramics--I want the misshapen coil pot itself! I don't want to view my friends' publishing efforts--I want to hug them and stack them and alphabetize them and plant them on park benches and slip them into book exchange boxes around town. I want them to have substance and to live, live as only a print book can.
So, color me completely shocked to be toodling around on Amazon, buying Crumbs and Far for this new Kindle thingy and discovering that Sarah actually has more print books than just The Dark Wife. (I'd think I'd have known this. WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS?! Did you know this?)
I did some remedying of the situation. For $28, free shipping, I will soon receive huggable, autographable, shelvable copies of:
* Hallow's Eve: A Halloween Fairy Tale
* Cage the Darlings
and
* One Solstice Night
~*~
So, in other news from the ladies of the purple shuttered cottage, The Fable Tribe, their new shop on etsy, had a huge update last night. They unveiled a bunch of new products--little sparkly animal 'faerie foundling' figurines, floral crowns and hair flowers, a rainbow of glitterful star bobby pins, shrines and stamped clay altar pieces, and even large Glamourkin wall plaques. I watched some of the update as it happened and then ultimately went to sleep and revisited the shop at 4:00am when Elena woke up to nurse. Thanks to my phone and some impulse purchasing, I ended up with five of their new treasures. :D I got:
This fairy crown to wear for Midsummer.
"Embody Peace" Faerie Foundling
"Cherish the Simple Things" Faerie Foundling
Gold Pixie Stars
Magic Mini Shrine
~~
If you bought anything, what did you pick up? :) I'm most excited about the foundlings and tucking them onto my windowsills with my vases of seaglass and other little treasures. That's become my altar to family and our home here.
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Date: 2012-03-15 01:30 pm (UTC)I wound up with nothing from this update, but only due to my big custom purchase of wedding things from Sarah and Jenn earlier in the month. Hopefully next big update I can pick up something... the wall hangings were my favorites. <3
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Date: 2012-03-15 01:43 pm (UTC)Is this a surprise kind of thing or are you willing to spill? What did you order for the wedding? :D I love weddings and I love their stuff and I love *you*, so it is bound to be all forms of awesome in combo, no matter what it is.
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Date: 2012-03-15 01:59 pm (UTC)Somewhere on Facebook there's a photo of me with the big flower in my hair, but it's a cellphone shot and doesn't do it any kind of justice. Jenn took my grandmother's wedding dress, pieced it apart, and turned it into all these lovely things (it's the same dress she used to make a pendant for my mom as a Christmas gift). She really worked her magic. :)
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Date: 2012-03-15 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-15 06:07 pm (UTC)All the bridal shops kept trying to sell me their flowers but I took along one of Jenn's for the basic idea and once the sales girls saw it, each time they said "Oh, that will be so much prettier..." Well yes, it's handmade and amazing and by a talented lady and personal! Also, not bedazzled. Not that I dislike glitter and gems but these flowers were not delicate, haha! ;)
Side note, but I'm sad I won't get to see the crown in person on you! I wish there was a way to magically whisk your family to Fairy Festival. You'll all be very missed!
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Date: 2012-03-19 04:02 pm (UTC)