[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-lots-of-good-stuff":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Okay, I'm off to Brussels for the wedding of two of my best friends, so I won't be posting for a few days. Here's a card I made for them, two people who have struck the most amazing balance between living simply and living the good life. Which involves lots of sunlight and good wine and picnics and riding their bicycles in the park and tending their cabbages (not to mention the incredible things they do at work, which I won't go into just now). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/picnic-39907fea90.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI don't usually get around to wrapping gifts very attractively, but I was kind of chuffed with the way this one came out, using a recycled trade show poster and some Chinese-made dolls I bought from a stall in Hay's Galleria:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wrapping-680b832cca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd how cool is this! After teasing him about butt nuts in the last post, \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a> got me back \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/111091.html\">here\u003C/a> with a brilliant and very mental portrait, including Lettuce and Vern. \u003Cb>Will Kirkby, you totally rock!\u003C/b> :-D\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chamonkee_sarah-fee29dc44c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nToday in the tube I saw a poster for a free exhibition of all sorts of skeletons dug up under London. \u003Ca href=\"http://ginasketch.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ginasketch\u003C/a> gave a great link to a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4228215.ece\">Times article\u003C/a>, including a map so you can find who's been buried beneath you. The exhibition runs until 28 Sept at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\">Wellcome Collection\u003C/a> in London. I'm going to try to get down there at some point to do some life drawing... er, death drawing. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/skeletons-844ae1346e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd Caption photos keep coming in, here are \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/caption/56395.html\">some more\u003C/a> by \u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tallguywrites\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Brian Sibley\u003C/b> has written a heart-felt and fascinating \u003Ca href=\"http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/pauline-baynes-queen-of-narnia-middle.html\">tribute on his blog\u003C/a> to \u003Cb>Pauline Baynes\u003C/b>, illustrator of many books I grew up with, including the Narnia Chronicles, who died the Friday before last. I'm sure many people will remember her work very fondly, and Brian's fortunate to have known her so well.","2008-08-12T19:56:00.000Z","lots-of-good-stuff",[],"lots of good stuff",1776628723243]