Happy New Year!

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come - Tennyson

Happy 2016! For all of my readers (all 20 or fewer of you!), I hope the new year brings you much happiness and joy and some strangeness as well.
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Magpie Monthly — December 2015

A magpie sits in a frost covered tree near Wascana Lake on 14 November 2010. Photo by Troy Fleece / Regina Leader-Post Files

A magpie sits in a frost covered tree near Wascana Lake on 14 November 2010. Photo by Troy Fleece / Regina Leader-Post Files

Welcome to the final Magpie Monthly of 2015!

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Magpie Monthly — November 2015

La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) by Niroot Puttapipat

La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) by Niroot Puttapipat

I love this little thief by Niroot Puttapipat. If you like his work (and you should—it’s phenomenal), please check out his beautiful cut-paper holiday books: The Night Before Christmas (US 2007), Jingle Bells (US 2015), and The Nutcracker (UK 2015).

Here, at the last minute, I finally pulled together November’s Magpie Monthly. S’il vous plaît profiter, mes amis.

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Magpie Monthly — October 2015

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Magpie Monthly — September 2015


“Magpie to the Morning” by Neko Case

A post of shiny bits for your ocular jellies’ pleasure, mostly art. Enjoy!

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