crooked house: Shrinky Dink Jewelry

Take a Look:

Lizzie Skurnick's Buck Up: Life Lessons from Young Heroines.
Michael Chabon's Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood. Via Gwenda.
Intel has decided to sponsor Mighty Girl Maggie Mason's list of 100 Things to Do Before She Dies -- so over the next three months she's off to Puerto Rico to swim with bioluminescent plankton and learning to tap dance and fun things like that. Now that's what you get for having a good attitude.
Ooh, there's a new Lorrie Moore story at The New Yorker. It's called "Childcare" and, due to the overwhelming demands of my own childcare tasks, I haven't read it yet. Must print it out and read it soonest. Via Maud.
In the "Wish I'd Thought of It" category: Let's Panic About Babies.
Pasha Malla has won the $20,000 Trillium Prize for his stellar book The Withdrawal Method. Via Maud. I interviewed him over there.
Jennifer Niesslein muses on the emotional difficulties people have when it comes to certain foods. Maybe the lactose intolerant simply need to open their minds.
Maud reviews the new biography of Jean Rhys, The Blue Hour. I got three quarters of the way through Rhys's collected works a month or two ago and then had to stop because the novels, based on her life, were so depressing. Sounds like her life was even more depressing than you'd think.
Maud reviews Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger for NPR.
Pretty pretty security envelope patterns. Particularly nice if you love blue.
This is kind of fun: writers talk about their guilty pleasures -- books they love but would be embarrassed to be seen reading. I've read and enjoyed both the Twilight series and the Stephanie Plum stuff. I find I usually turn to this kind of junk food reading when I'm too sick to focus much or think.
Lisa says that, in book cover design, "the sky is the new shoes."
This woman thinks the way I do: many, many children's books are deeply disturbing if you think too much about them.
The Internet in 1969.
Over at Pickle Me This, Kerry, who is going to have a baby tomorrow, has compiled a list of anxiety-provoking books to read while you are pregnant.
Scholar denies oral roots of fairy tales. (Seeing the words "oral" and "fairy" in that headline immediately made me think of the tooth fairy.)

May 13, 2008

Shrinky Dink Jewelry

These are the shrinky dink charms Luke and I made this weekend. Okay, so he lost interest after about ten minutes. But I enjoyed it. The elephant charm will be given away with a copy of Jennifer Niesslein's book. See the above post for details. I'll even throw in a piece of black cord with which to tie it around your neck.

Posted by Stephany Aulenback on May 13, 2008 at 06:19 PM in Arts and Crafts | Permalink

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I love those! Did you print them out? You're ready for etsy, now.

Posted by: Mary | May 13, 2008 at 07:30 PM

Hi Mary! Thanks. Yes, those are print-outs. You know, I'm half-considering doing some up for etsy. They're fun to make.

Posted by: Steph | May 13, 2008 at 08:34 PM

Love those shrinky dinks - remind me of a brooch I made for a show my brother did - a Victorian illo of twins in the womb lifted from an old book called Woman Beautiful. I didn't have the shrinky dink technology but I think I laminated with clear nail varnish.
The elephant is particularly fetching.

Posted by: Sara O'Leary | May 13, 2008 at 09:55 PM

Would love to see the brooch, Sara. What kind of show was it?

Posted by: Steph | May 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM

It was a one man show called "Buck Naked" about twin brothers - wrote it with my brother and he played both parts. One brother was a retarded supermarket shelf-stocker and the other was a university student who'd just gotten his girlfriend pregnant. My favourite line in the whole show was "Casey and Finnegan were puppets? No!"

The image was what we used for the poster and then I made pins because they were so bizarre (a bit like that heart necklace you pictured today). I may still have one around somewhere - will take a look.

Posted by: Sara | May 14, 2008 at 12:52 PM

I love your choice of pictures. I was thinking of making some for myself. Did you print out the images directly onto the paper?

Posted by: carolyn | October 18, 2008 at 03:54 PM

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