Pocket Mouse

fall mums

Today, my friend at work gave me the most beautiful mums I have ever seen:

In2Books

I signed up for this recently and wanted to spread the word because they're looking for other participants.  I'll just cut-and-paste from their notice:

Help Students Write a Better Future! Become an In2Books Pen Pal
Today!

Are you looking for a volunteer experience that engages your
heart and mind - without leaving your desk? Then we have the
perfect volunteer opportunity for you! Become an In2Books pen
pal and enhance the reading, writing, and thinking skills of an
elementary school student this year.

In2Books is an innovative, web-based, literacy enrichment
program that provides third-fifth grade students with meaningful
books to keep and an adult pen pal to correspond with about the
important issues in the books. Pen pals submit their letters via
Pen Pal Place®, an In2Books website for all your pen pal
resources. Teachers deliver the letters to their students and
enrich the pen pal experience with related classroom lessons.

To become a pen pal, visit http://in2books.epals.com/penpal08

Thank you for opening your heart to help more children reach
their full potential.

Pumpkin Patch

Updated photos of the pumpkin patch (click here to see what it looked like at my last update):

There ARE pumpkins (I think four so far), but they are kind of hidden:

My favorite pumpkin:

Here's Linus and Sally waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive:

And here's a garden gnome who still needs a name:

Manifest Hope Gallery

My favorite out of all the finalists, by Ben Dutro:

I hope they make it available in a print!  See more here.

colorful, sparkly chandeliers

I know most of these are intended for kids' rooms, but I love these crazy, colorful chandeliers:

Gypsy Chandelier from MiniStyle featured in the autumn issue of Small Magazine:

Whoopsie Daisy Chandelier from Land of Nod:

Spectrum Chandelier from Urban Outfitters:

misc. stuff

- The wonderful blog, Appropriately Named, used my photo of Mr. Coffin!

- The autumn issue of Small Magazine is up!  I know I don't have any kids, but I still love this magazine.  They always feature profiles of wonderful artists like this issue's article on Jayme McGowan.  Also, this praying mantis Halloween costume cracks me up!

- This post on Creature Comforts inspired me to spend a ridiculous amount of time on Polyvore yesterday trying to come up with storybook-inspired looks.  Here's my Alice:

And my Snow Queen:

- Speaking of designing stuff, someone (unfortunately, I can't rememer who) posted a link to a thing on Zazzle where you can design your own Keds shoes.  There aren't many color and pattern options right now though...I wonder if they will add more?

- Meet Me At Mikes posted some videos of Mary Blair's work.  Mary Blair is best known for her work on Disney's Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.  This one makes me really happy and I kind of want to go ice skating now: