[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-un-cute-anagram-baby-card":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cb>\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>: Here's a business proposition! If anyone wants a personalised \u003Ca href=\"http://wordsmith.org/anagram\">anagram\u003C/a> painted card like this one, I'll hand paint it for you for UK£100. You can choose the hair/skin colour, gender, eyeglasses or no, and pick up to ten of your favourite anagrams of the name. Makes a nice baby gift or a gift for yourself. \u003Cbr />Buy soon, while the offer lasts!\u003C/b> :-)\\r\n\\r\nI think I'm getting a bit too carried away with this \u003Ca href=\"http://wordsmith.org/anagram\">anagram website\u003C/a>. My friends just had a new baby and I'd been bored at the idea of doing a card with a fluffy teddy on the front or something, and then I got into the anagram thing. Fortunately my friends are not the kind of people whom I think will mind their baby's name being rearranged into 'barren jubilee wino' or 'injure a Bible owner'. I thought 'a wee junior nibbler' was kind of cute and fitting, though.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/anneli-1-14e38722db.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI just wrote a review for Write Away of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2858/Itemid,99999999/\">The Book Book\u003C/a> by Sophie Benini Pietromarchi. It's a lovely little guide to making artist books and scrapbooks. I've only recently heard of the publisher, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tarabooks.com\">Tara Publishing\u003C/a>, who are based in India and putting out some interesting stuff. I reviewed another book they published, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2826/Itemid,99999999/\">That's How I See Things\u003C/a>, which I didn't entirely love, but got me excited thinking about the possibility of more illustrators coming out of this part of the world. About four years ago, I illustrated a book set in the lowlands of Nepal, and I didn't have much reference material for the landscape. But I did find some amazing artwork online by local artists at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/jwdc/index.html\">Janakpur Women's Development Center\u003C/a>, which I was able to tie into the book, and which continues to fascinate me. I wrote to the center once, asking if they did workshops or allowed visitors to stay and study with the painters for awhile, but I never heard back from them. It seemed like a cool focus to a trip to Nepal. I ran into their work again at a festival this summer, a vendor selling hand painted mirrors from the centre, but the work wasn't half as good as the stuff I'd seen earlier. I wish I could see more of their paintings.","2008-01-10T23:36:00.000Z","un-cute-anagram-baby-card",[],"un-cute anagram baby card",1776628722181]