misosouper, a shopping blog

Your love story embroidered in black-and-white makes it that less cloying.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately on how to decorate kids’ rooms (yes, interwebs, that means we’re having another baby!), and I’ve pretty much settled on these retro-futuristic prints from Butterscotch Lane as part of the new little one’s room decor.  I will have ours mounted on wooden blocks (an option for all the photos), which adds an element of imaginative play and potential danger to the proceedings.

Or, you will be when you win this amazing print from the Brooklyn artists enormouschampion.  Their bright, graphic letterpressing exudes strength and vigor–one of my favorite cards from their line is entitled, simply, “Battleship.”  Their animals are bold rather than cute  (which, to be honest, is refreshing; Etsy is overflowing with delicately drawn menageries these days):  witness this parade of intrepid brown creatures whose collective brain bubble you can thoughtfully fill in.

enormouschampion has recently partnered with the organization Fabric of Life, which provides women skills training and encourages self-sustainability in Mali, Zimbabwe, Senegal, and Vietnam, in the creation of these stunning L’Afrique de L’Ouest cards.  Printed with soy inks on 100% recycled paper, these just might be my new stationery wardrobe.

But I can’t hoard it all for myself:  leave a comment on this post naming three good things in your life, and we’ll randomly choose a winner to receive a limited-edition “All Good Things” print.  Perfect for hanging over a door or a bed, two places where such benedictions are always welcome.

the fine print:

Comments will be closed and entries will not be accepted after 11:59 pm EST on Sunday, March 29, 2009. The winner will be selected at random on Monday, March 30, 2009, and notified by e-mail. Results of the giveaway will be announced on Monday, March 30, 2009. Misosouper, a shopping blog reserves the right to disqualify entries that are incomplete, inaccurate, or considered spam.

Artist John Rooney, creator of Crash Bonsai, is now selling his tiny wreckage for us to smash into our own miniature trees.

As a collector of both bonsai and car accidents, I wholeheartedly approve this enterprise.

I’ve had this post waiting in the wings for some time (get it?  I’m so punny!), but since Mincing Mockingbird hit the front page of Etsy today, I figured I’d better publish it before he sold out.  You see, I have a thing for bird prints; at last count, I have 23, mostly arranged on one wall in my dining room.  I own three of Mincing’s pieces, and you know how at Disney’s Haunted Mansion the paintings’ eyes follow you around the room?  His work has a much more soulful kind of creep.

And because the hilarious titles of his paintings–such as the name of this post (and titular print in the book), and the pleasantly misanthropic “Any Poetic Impressions Of Life I Have Are Usually Ruined When Someone Starts Talking”–are on full display, this book would be a prime candidate for leaving propped on your bookcase.