Tag: Tacoma Playing Cards
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Grab your Bridge partner
They’re here! At long last, the Red Deck of the Tacoma Playing Cards is finished, printed and delivered. (You’ll have to excuse my cheesy phone photos—I was just too excited to dig out the fancy camera.) It’s so great to see the finished product, and how well everyone’s artwork reproduced at playing-card size. But you…
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Reading rotunda
More than a thousand towns and cities in the U.S. are lucky enough to have had a Carnegie Library under their belt, and Tacoma is no exception. Today, our Carnegie Library is a wing of the expanded main campus of the Tacoma Public Library—and the rotunda now houses the fabulous Northwest Room, the ultimate resource…
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Upping the ante
I had no idea we’d get here so quickly, but here we are. It’s been just under a year since we first launched the Tacoma Playing Cards project, and I’m happy to report that we’ve nearly sold out our initial print run of 5,000 decks! And we’ve had so many requests from Bridge players (and…
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Phoenix rising
This weekend has given us that rarest of Northwest treats: winter sunshine. When that happens it’s also usually too cold to stand outside and draw, but this time it was worth the frozen fingertips to mark the occasion in my new daily book. That’s because the restoration of one of my favorite Tacoma landmarks is…
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Deal me in
My brain is chock full of useless information—I could sing you about 35,000 ad jingles on key, or recite Jurassic Park or Trading Places or a hundred other movies line-for-line. But don’t challenge me to a game of Poker, because I have a terrible head for card games. I love playing them, and am always…
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Secret sliver
I’m helping some friends of mine cook up a big ol’ basket of hometown pride. That’s all I’ll say for now, but we’ll be ready to spill the beans next week. It’ll be worth the wait, I promise.