that also means it's time for one of my famous wish lists. i know you love me, but if you want to show me just how much by showering me with gifts, i won't complain. especially if it's one of these awesome treasures:
the main star of my wish list this year was a classic i pod, cleverly engraved...but my friend martin gave me his old i pod, and it is soooo lovely and sports 30GB of song-saving memory, so the classic would still be nice, but i'm pretty well set. that wittily engraved message still holds my desire, though. so.
not surprisingly nobody gave me the ultra-expensive macbook pro for my birthday, so, impractically, i've added it to my christmas list. i want the 15-incher with a 500GB hard drive and 8GB of RAM. a girl can dream.
i really, really would love something from the yellow owl workshop. i am especially in love with their stamp sets, especially the city and seascape sets. oh they are so lovely. yellow owl also sports some gorgeous correspondence sets, and i am fondest of the bicycle version. it's so delicious. if one were to give me one of these beautiful stamp sets, it would be sweet of them to include an awesome pad of sturdy, but lovely paper, such as this.
as you know, i love to read. i especially love to read about design, and there is an awesome little collection put together by stefan sagmeister and daniel nettle that would bring a lot of joy to my little designer heart. it's called things i have learned in my life so far. and it is rad.
because i love books so much, physical, awesome, paper books, you might be surprised to know that i really, really, really want a kindle. i know. i never thought i would say it either. but i do. i promise to never stop reading or buying real books, but i'd like to supplement them with this. and it reads to you. HONEY!!! it reads to me, so you don't have to. please note, that i want THE latest version (with 3G), for best contrast, least eyestrain, and best voices.
and a quick breakdown of books i want. books are always, always a good thing:
made you look by stefan sagmeister.
make it bigger by paula scher.
the three incestuous sisters: an illustrated novel by audrey niffenegger.
room by emma donoghue.
lost at sea by bryan lee o'malley
the scott pilgrim comics by bryan lee o'malley
dante's divine comedy: a graphic adaptation by seymour chwast (yes! THE seymour chwast!)
black hole by charles burns.
asterios polyp by david massucchelli.
ghost world by daniel clowes.
the book of genesis illustrated by r. crumb.
fun home: a family tragicomic by alison bechdel.
the walking dead by robert kirkman +.
sandman: dream hunters by neil gaiman and illustrated by p. craig russell. also anything in the sandman comic series.
sparkle and spin: a book about words by ann and paul rand.
paul rand: conversations with students by michael kroeger.
i know a lot of things by ann and paul rand.
thoughts on design by paul rand.
bryson's dictionary for writers and editors by bill bryson. (REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WANT THIS!)
to name a few.
let it never be said that i am hard to shop for.
merry merry.
i am grateful for:
paper
tape
rodney
smiles
saddle stitch staplers
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