Today's holiday Gifty Pick is the perfect gift for the love in your life. It's a very sweet miniature book, Love is Everlasting, by Peter & Donna Thomas. The text is an old Hawaiian proverb written in both Hawaiian and English, “Love is worn like a wreath through the summers and the winters, love is everlasting.
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Today's holiday Gifty Pick is a book that is also jewelry. This gorgeous work by Marian Crane features shell beads sewn onto leather with wooden covers that cinch up on linen thread to function as a necklace. Marian tells us this work is, "meant to evoke ancient prayer books and counting symbols.
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Today's holiday Gifty Pick is for the cat lover on your list. El Gato is a lovely little book with poetry and illustrations by Oregon artist Sandy Rockoff-Lizit. It features a series of poems about cats including El Gato, an old tom the artist encountered each morning while walking for coffee on a visit to La Penita, a small fishing village in Mexico.
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Today's holiday Gifty Pick is by letterpress innovator Karen Kunc. I am a HUGE fan of her work—she has a refreshingly original style using letterpress techniques that are result in gorgeous, layered, beautiful prints. Karen, who lives in Nebraska, is both an accomplished, widely-exhibited book artist and respected print maker.
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