This monster doesn’t reduce himself to hiding under the bed. And what kid wouldn’t love being friends with a green guy with 9 eyeballs? (And when I say “kid,” I mean me.)

Or buy a pre-made Tyvek wallet from Dynomighty and add your own hand-drawn design:

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Interesting array of art, from art deco ladies to Biggie Smalls and Madonna. Worth checking out.

When I was a kid, my mom had a big old cookie tin filled with random buttons. I don’t know where that many buttons could have possibly come from, there were hundreds of them. I’m pretty sure she intended to use them to replace missing buttons at some point, but that never actually happened.

Those buttons looked like a big bowl of candy to me. They called to me in the night. I just wanted to drink them up. I remember running my hands through them and the little bits of plastic and sometimes metal slipping through my fingers like sand. Ok, I was a weird kid but those buttons were the stuff dreams were made of.

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Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins) 1975 – 1976

Interview with Barkley Hendricks from Indie Week
…in the painting I did of Sweet Thang ["Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins)" from 1975-76], as she was sitting on the couch, we were talking, and she was telling me a very intense story, and all of a sudden she blew a bubble. It changed the mood completely. When I saw that, I said, ‘Whoa, I like that.’”

Photo by Dominic Episcopo

More photos from this series

If you want your baby to be awesome, you should get her these art cards from Wee Gallery.

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After observing how storing records in crates can damage them over time, Matt Braun came up with a simple solution – Gangsta Lean modules. These cool storage cubes lean, the records snuggle in the resulting nook, and maintain their shape.

You can of course use these for books, magazines, or anything you want. They’re also stackable – lovely.

www.artfire.com looks a lot like etsy, but it’s not etsy. It’s another place to buy cool handmade and vintage stuff online.

More sites for creative & crafty types:

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