becker&mayer! Books just informed Sara and me that Art Lab: Fashion Studio won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award!

According to their Marketing Recap:

The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, the only independent consumer review of children’s media, has chosen ArtLab Fashion Studio a Gold Seal Award Winner! Fashion Studio will be featured in their annual book, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio 2008 Edition, and on www.toyportfolio.com. The Oppenheims are frequent guests of The Today Show, so we’ll let you know if Fashion Studio makes the cut in an upcoming segment about toys.

Sweet A-line! That's rick-rack-tastic!

Where did the summer go? A busy spring and summer of contract jobs, kid book conferences, book reading, cat and dog scratching, and dummy assembling left me little time for blogging.

New art is up at my portfolio. I'll try to get back into the swing of things on chompoblog -- still have sweet interviews to post!

Got the lyrics wrong below: There's a song Donald Duck sings in one of the Disney shorts. But Donald's elocution leaves much to be desired. "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main" is the way the shanty really goes. I'm going to go have a shandy.