{"id":37574,"date":"2022-05-17T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37574"},"modified":"2022-05-17T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:53:54","slug":"heaven-on-5-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/05\/17\/heaven-on-5-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven on $5 a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEver since my wife picked up a cheap, wire-bound, scratch pad from a Target store for me as a Christmas gift, I now take cheap sketchbooks seriously. Throughout the years I may have bought every name brand of artist drawing pads available in art supply stores, but nothing has brought me as much joy as an anonymous doodle pad that had a blank cover. Now whenever I see cheap sketch pads at stores that would not otherwise sell art supplies, I don’t ignore them. I never know what may become the next Sketchbook from Heaven!<\/a><\/p>\n

The pad of paper pictured above is from Five Below <\/em>which is a chain of discount stores. It is an enormous 18-inches by 12-inches and only set me back $5. That’s pretty good for 100 sheets of paper particularly that size.<\/p>\n

Will it be as good as the little sketchbook from Target? It’s huge so it’s not as portable as the little book, but I couldn’t pass it up for five bucks. Only time and some drawing will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since my wife picked up a cheap, wire-bound, scratch pad from a Target store for me as a Christmas gift, I now take cheap sketchbooks seriously. Throughout the years I may have bought every name brand of artist drawing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,49,16],"tags":[4274,5323,25],"class_list":["post-37574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-cheap","tag-discount","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9M2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22375,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/13\/not-quite-heaven\/","url_meta":{"origin":37574,"position":0},"title":"Not Quite Heaven","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought I was being quite clever when I came up with the idea for replacing my favorite but sadly exhausted Sketchbook from Heaven. 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