[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-some-pretty-things":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Whatever you think of it's status as fine art, there's always something rather wonderful about a ship in a bottle. I passed \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/23/trafalgar-fourth-plinth-ship-bottle-victory\">this giant version\u003C/a> on the plinth on Trafalgar Square yesterday evening.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/trafalgar_square_bottle-39d5148695.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd wouldn't you know, I drew a ship in a bottle in the artwork for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Scare-Princess-Gillian-Rogerson/dp/1407124544/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309612256&sr=8-1\">\u003Ci>You Can't Scare a Princess!\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. Here's a little sneak peek at a scene of pirates ransacking the palace (spot the bottle and its furry little inhabitant):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/you_cant_scare_1-244208c24d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart and I were going to the opera, so we had a picnic supper on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields and I had a little browse of the second issue of the fab \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thecomixreader.com/2011/06/comix-reader-issue-2.html\">Comix Reader\u003C/a>. Have you got hold of your copy yet?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thecomixreader.com/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comix_reader2-278492f3ba.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more pretty stuff under the cut-->\\r\n24 pages of indie comics loveliness, with a good dose of quirkiness thrown in. One page even features our favourite \u003Ca href=\"http://panda-panda.co.uk/\">Panda Panda bubble tea\u003C/a>, courtesy of most excellent studio mate, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com/\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comix_reader-f920d50f2f.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>tidbits from The Comix Reader\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI never found the pencil case I lost at Hay, and I first replaced it with that little green one up top. Except I discovered you can't stuff metal pencil cases; they'll either close or they won't close, there's no fudging. So I bought the orange one, which has three separate pockets and looks stuffable. Hurrah! Oh, and then I had to buy the lovely matching notebook. I love Paperchase stuff, I just wish they put the name of the artist on their products.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pretty-41c6e60612.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'll blog more about the opera later, it was AMAZING. The English National Opera's production of \u003Ci>Two Boys\u003C/i> at the London Coliseum, go see it!\\r\nOh, and Philip Reeve has \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/07/gollarks-at-mcs-luncheon-at-jam-factory.html\">just blogged\u003C/a> our lunch with Geraldine McCaughrean in Oxford, and included a rather fabulous flip-chart drawing he made before his event.","2011-07-02T13:12:00.000Z","some-pretty-things",[],"some pretty things",1776628720446]