My sister and her family recently went to Paris and as they were strolling past a Gibert Joseph bookstore, one of my nieces spotted a whole rack of my Blush cards! You can see them on the far right of the photo above.

How cool is that?

Not only that, but some of my friends have seen my cards elsewhere as well: Kristen came across my cards in Pulp The Paper Gallery at 348 Danforth Avenue in Toronto, and Brooke saw them in the Vancouver Art Gallery:

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The Toronto municipal workers’ strike has begun, and Toronto-types are all crossing their fingers in hopes that a settlement can be reached soon, especially with the upcoming warm weather (see forecast below). I was inspired to doodle the cartoon above after reading a Toronto Star article about how the strike is affecting the operation of kid-friendly venues.

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Yay, the art I ordered from Beckett Gladney’s Etsy store arrived! It actually arrived a while ago, expertly packaged and looking even more gorgeous in real life than on the computer screen.

Beckett’s added more art and photos to her shop, by the way, so I encourage you all to go visit RIGHT NOW. Check out this gorgeous batik case:

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Wow. I’m impressed that artist Jorge Columbo had the patience to paint the image above on the iPhone; he used a $4.99 iPhone app called Brushes (which, of course, I was compelled to immediately buy).

But back to Evil Squirrels and gardening…

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My friend Beckett has (finally, yay!) launched her own Etsy store. Do go over and take a look…but don’t wait too long! She just opened her shop yesterday and over half of her inventory has already sold. Prices range from $5 and up.

A Facebook conversation between Lisa Yee and Angela Fox inspired me to (finally) update Will Write For Chocolate. :-)

For those on Twitter, I’m “inkyelbows.” :-) I use the current Twittertoon as my background image on Twitter, but you can also find archives on Twitpic.

Woohoo, my new Blush card designs have arrived! Blush had commissioned me to do six more for the Ohi line. My cards are now being distributed in the UK, Japan, France, Australia, the U.S. and Canada.

I’ve reopened my Etsy store after its long hiatus to make these cards available. I’ve also reduced prices on all the paintings as well as making the full set of all 16 cards available at steep discount (when you buy all of them at once).

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For Illustration Friday. This week’s theme: “Voices.”