{"id":1734,"date":"2012-10-04T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:54","slug":"ginette-lapalme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/ginette-lapalme\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Ginette Lapalme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are so many wonderfully happy things happening in the world of Ginette Lapalme<\/a>. Bright colors, child-like doodles, diamonds and cats. So many cats! I have quite a soft spot in my heart for the fury little creatures, mainly due to my affections towards my own felines, Peru and Lima. I have no idea what is going on with her art and sometimes that is a good thing.<\/p>\n

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I recently received my own cat amulet from Ginette’s Etsy shop<\/a>. To my surprise I received my necklace in a mint colored box decorated by hand with marker and butterfly stickers, sealed with pink cat motif tape. In addition to my fabulous new necklace, I also received 2 itty bitty artist books and a yellow strawberry eraser (just like the ones I use to collect as a kid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are so many wonderfully happy things happening in the world of Ginette Lapalme. Bright colors, child-like doodles, diamonds and cats. So many cats! I have quite a soft spot in my heart for the fury little creatures, mainly due to my affections towards my own felines, Peru and Lima. I have no idea what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,155,281,102],"tags":[37,125,268,1869,322,309],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-drawing","category-mixed-media","category-sculpture","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-cats","tag-etsy","tag-ginette-lapalme","tag-jewelry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-rY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7748,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lang-ingalls-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1734,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Lang Ingalls","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Chansons is a\u00a0text written\u00a0by the Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlink. 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