Above is a photo of the papercrafted card (click here for larger version) I made for Molly on our anniversary last week. Goopy sentiments aside (that are none of your business, anyway), I’m really pleased how the forced perspective turned out. I was afraid that the multiple layers and manufactured vanishing point would make it look fun-housey, but it really came together. It reminds me of all those amazing dioramas in some of more antique (and ramshackled-ly brilliant) museums around the globe. And of course, there’s some of this stuff, too. Ain’t the world grand?

Damn, this is cool. Molly found this the other day out of a duel headed desire to support independent artists, and also somehow put a stop to my obsession with having dead stuffed animals in our house. Rock Paper Scissors out of Virginia, what looks like a small DIY shop, sells cardboard laser cut into puzzles you can assemble to mock taxidermied heads of elk, moose, and yes, rhinos, among other things. We bought the big one just now.

Pretend you live in the Ernest Hemingway’s house, but without the guilt!