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Giveaway : bespoke magazine!!

Have you read bespoke magazine yet? The latest issue arrived in my letterbox this week and I must say I’m seriously impressed. It’s very, VERY cute. The cover features the illustration talents of Hanna Mancini, and you can see some more very sweet...

Small biz + Books : The Compendium of Collective Nouns {Jen Skelly}

books, small biz

The Compendium of Collective Nouns : How is THIS for a book? I am so excited my good friend Jen Skelly is launching her very first book! I feel very fortunate to have been given a copy of it to review. Working as a self-employed illustrator out of her home in...

this. magazine ~ celebrating two years of tractorgirl

about me, books, photography, small biz, surface design, the crafted object

this. magazine YES! Next month marks the two year anniversary for this blog. It has been SUCH wonderful fun to scour the interwebs for the visually stunning AND be rewarded with such great stories from the artists as well. That’s why I’ve...

Books : Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Audrey Niffenegger

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Despite the appalling title (really? her what? -), I picked this book up to read as I loved The Time Traveller’s Wife so much, for its imagination and oh so skilfully crafted plotline. This is a ghost story about estranged identical twin sisters,...

Books : An Extraordinary Theory of Objects ~ Stephanie LaCava

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An Extraordinary Theory of Objects ~ a memoir of an outsider in Paris is a curious book, although perhaps not quite as curious as Stephanie would have us believe. The book itself is intriguing. The edges of the pages are left rough, mimicking antique...

Books : The Lost Recipe for Happiness – Barbara O’Neal

books, food

Okay okay okay, it’s real fantasy stuff – girl has great job, gets fired, gets offered another way more spectacular job within minutes, moves to spectacular location, falls in love, lives happily ever after. But wait, there are attempts to...

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Giveaway : *bespoke* magazine!!