

Looking through Beauchamping’s Etsy shop, his Homestead series reminds me how much of how I miss and love my family, since I am currently away from them for three weeks.
And best of all, each of his work has a story.
{Thanks Yael!}


Looking through Beauchamping’s Etsy shop, his Homestead series reminds me how much of how I miss and love my family, since I am currently away from them for three weeks.
And best of all, each of his work has a story.
{Thanks Yael!}

Jenny of Be Happy Now is offering ONE Pikaland reader the chance to win this lovely mini 2010 calendar. It’s a fun size that can easily be carried around almost everywhere. Notebook? Check. Pinned to the wall? Check that too.
And just to make sure that everyone will be really happy, she’s also offering readers of this blog FREE SHIPPING for all her 2010 calendars when you type in “pikaland” during checkout at her Etsy shop.
YAY? Yes.
Comment below by the 11th of November and we’ll contact the lucky winner by email within the week after!
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!


Jacob Denno has an agenda: to expose poetry to a wider, younger and more diverse audience and attempts to steal it back from its rather musty reputation and has come up with Popshot, an art book/magazine, that has a combination of poetry & illustration.
They’re in their second issue and this round the magazine has the work of illustrators such as Spencer Wilson, Valero Doval, Clare Mallison, Bob London, Henri Draws and Julia Pott.
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