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Ok, so I’m the last person on the planet to read the Twilight. Of course, I’m not exactly a teenage girl… They amass probably 90% of Twi-fan-audience (plus another 8% of TwiMoms and an occasional TwiDude )

Obsession with Twilight is quite understandable. Forbidden love, romance so thick and gooey it hurts your teeth when you read. Beautiful vampires (although I swore to stop reading if Bella refers once again to his God-Like-Perfect-Face). But all the drama aside, most of the main characters are regular teenagers. Who spend a lot of time in class… Need to keep their hands busy and minds distracted… See where this is going? They DOODLE! Bella was doodling in Biology Class. And in the unpublished Edwards memoir Midnight Sun, she does it again, while waiting for classes to begin.

And then there are the Twilight fans. Not very surprisingly, they do a lot of doodling themselves!

From simple name doodling (oh, how teen is that )

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to elaborate texts with pictures:

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From attempts to capture Edward’s perfect features (I particularly like the rainbows coming out of his ear :

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to fascination with the entire Cullen family:

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and even some videos of the process:

Even I couldn’t resist doodling “on the theme”… No, no, Edward’s “amber” eyes and “granite” skin (I’m a bit too old for that ) But sure, why not dramatic hearts and tempting fruit?

…aka Doodling with a purpose. It sounds a bit weird that such seemingly mindless activity as doodling might benefit some kind of important charitable cause (well, besides the two Doodle Days (one here and one in England) we already discussed on this blog). But it’s true! Etsy seller Cloudery is on a mission to support the charity First Book. With each sale of every drawing or print, a donation of at least two new books is made to children from low-income families, providing them the opportunity to read and own their first new books.

How cool is that? Not to mention that Cloudery’s inky doodles are all one-of-a-kind, and quite frankly gorgeous? See for yourself:

As much as I like computer fonts, there’s something absolutely magical (for me, at least) in hand-written letters. No two are alike, and when there’s a whole alphabet it’s like a neat collection, herbarium of sorts. But instead of dried flowers, letter specimens bloom on the page.
From the Ornamental Typography of the days past to the contemporary digital artists and crafts people… I admire everybody who “plays with their letters.”
Awesome Illustrator and blogger Jessica Gonacha has one in her shop:

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Estonia based Band of Brothers Loginov, aka design firm Hand Made Font specialize on just that – hand made (out of any imaginable material, literally) fonts. But that doesn’t mean that pen and paper are out of style:

Doodlage’s dear friend Sue Doodles is working on the hand-doodled alphabet, one letter at a time:

Wonderful, talented Gemma Correll seems to know her ABCs… or at least As, Bs, Cs, Ds, Es and Fs:

And for dessert, this hand-made little movie featuring an amazing hand-cut alphabet book:

I know that you guys will appreciate this kind of stuff:

Naturally, me and my Crazy Teapots are more than happy to be part of it! Here they are in their post-coloring glory:

Ha! I didn’t even have to come up with a catchy name for this one! It’s right there, in the store’s banner. In big bold letters – DISHFULS OF DOODLES.

Mary Imig Gallimore is a Sheboygan, Wisconsin native and self-taught artist whose signature design originated in pencil on the back of a high school notebook. A self-proclaimed “color junkie”, Mary is enchanted by the colors and flowing lines used in her painting process, as well as the feeling of connectedness achieved from the interlocking shapes.


We applaud the doodles, and the colors, and the elegance of the free-flowing designs. I’d eat anything off of these beautiful dishes

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