Waxcreative Design Blog » Client Posts http://waxcreative.com/blog Talking about websites Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 What We’re Reading: Michael Spradlin on Kid Literacy and Comics http://waxcreative.com/blog/2010/09/spradlin-on-kid-literacy/ http://waxcreative.com/blog/2010/09/spradlin-on-kid-literacy/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:11:17 +0000 Tarrin Petersen http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=2465 We’re loving Michael Spradlin’s guest blog at Imagination Soup about “The Kid Who Doesn’t Like to Read (TKWDLTR) Syndrome” and his proposed comic book cure. Comics as exciting, vocabulary-building reading that will keep kids engaged—why not? As Michael says, in the face of the literacy crisis among kids, “Any reading is good reading.” We concur! High literature can always follow.

Check it out here.

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We are pre-empting our customary month-end Wrap-Up to bring you a fabulous online design feature.
Eloisa James’s Paper Doll extravaganza.

It would be special enough just to have access to these gorgeous paper dolls. But Eloisa turned it into a DESIGN CONTEST. Eloisa and her daughter made the gorgeous doll seen right here. But when you DOWNLOAD the doll, she is a blank slate. Our homage to Eloisa’s covers appears at the bottom of this post.

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Eloisa James has commissioned a  gorgeous paper doll and costume, in delicious Georgian fashion. And to launch the doll onto the web, Eloisa is hostessing a fabulous design contest!

Says Eloisa:

“If you’ve read even one of my novels, you know that I adore historical clothing: dresses that drip with diamonds, wigs with sailing ships, coats with gold-trim buttons… When I’m not writing, one of my favorite activities is sitting down with my 10-year-old daughter and making handmade birthday cards. We tend to go wild in scrapbooking stores and we always use lots of sequins!

To celebrate the end of the Desperate Duchesses series, I came up with the idea of combining my two favorite hobbies – writing and decorating.”

Download the pdf, print the four pages, choose a dress and a wig or a hat, and decorate her costume however you’d like! And then enter the contest! Full details on Eloisa’s site.

Use this link to download the doll (designed by the wonderful artist, Laurie Manifold), or head over to Eloisa’s site and get it from the source. Tell your friends!

If you post this to your own blog, come back here and put your link in the comments or over on the Eloisa James – Julia Quinn Bulletin Board — you could win!

(Wax’s regular Wrap-Up will resume next week for August.)

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