Casart® Coverings
Casart Coverings are original hand-painted, custom-printed, designer, removable and reusable wallcoverings. Artists inspired and created.
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New Orleans & Nine Lives
I just finished reading a fascinating book that I couldn’t put down, Nine Lives by Dan Baum. It was my choice and I hosted my book group last week to discuss it. The book reads like fiction but it is real life. For a writer who is not a native New Orleanian and who was on assignment after Hurricane Katrina (or “The Storm” as natives say), he really captured what it is like to be from and to live in New Orleans. His profile of nine people: several who lived in the Ninth Ward, the wife of a famous Mardi Gras Indian, a prominent lawyer, to a transvestite in transition,…
Art Apps
Happy Columbus Day! It’s a work day for me and a lot of people. but I can at least think of non-work…. I’m gonna get this Brushes iPhone App for my iPod touch. I can’t promise my art will be as good but what a great way to practice. This is an interesting video of iPhone art by Jorge Columbo: Coincidentally, I posted a blog post today for Slipcovers for Your Walls (casartblog) regarding Mac Apps for selecting color.
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The big fall unveilling
It’s the first full week of October. Where did September go? I think the days came and went without much notice, due to many all-nighters trying to unveil our new line of products. We’ll we’ve done it. We will be sending out our updated eNewsletter regarding our latest news. We also sent out our press release last month and had many interested responses and we were featured in the Times Picayune’s InsideOut Edition about wallpaper. Coincidentally, another article ran in the same issue regarding “Personal Space” in which my mother had sent in her bedroom renovation as an example of how to personalize a space after my father passed away…
