Category: General

Updated website software, avalon.ph v8.0

New Home Page

Successful upgrade of our website software! We’ll work on the eyecandy gradually (been saying that for years). Some things you’ll notice immediately:

– Advanced, AJAX-driven “One Page Checkout” system for quick checkout
– Automatic saving of shopping cart content (so if customers close their browser by mistake, the products are still there)
– more efficient search function
– Pinterest Integration
– AddThis buttons to allow customers to easily share a page on a social network, through Twitter, via e-mail, etc.

Check us out and get PhP100.00 price discount on any regular books and comics (books, clearance & comics categories). Use coupon code***: version8

This is a major upgrade of the system from performance improvements, code “clean-up” and virtually every file was updated. If you noticed any bugs please let us know. Thank you!

*** Coupon code valid up to March 31, 2014. One time use only per customer.

September 2013 links

Various links we shared via our social network accounts for September 2013:

 

woodandsnow

 

If you love books, I suggest you follow Ms. A. Comprendio’s Instagram account.

 


 

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Two familiar names, twitter user @aya_dalumpines & @foureyedwonder, co-founders of Katha Magazine. Check out their maiden issue!

Re-imagining Creativity. Katha Magazine celebrates Filipino creatives and their boundless imagination.

 

 


 

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Ms. Tatin Yang’s Field Notes pencil spotted at Katha Magazine Issue 01.

Re-imagining Creativity. Image from Katha Magazine, celebrates Filipino creatives and their boundless imagination.

 


 

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via Instagram @kimiberr. Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, 2nd-hand book inscription:

It also came with this.

“Irwin,

May you lead a fairy-tale life when you go to the land of fairy tales.

Most poets and writers are fascinated with these stories, and I hope that you’d like this. Bon voyage! Belated H-bday too. Some (N)”

This is why I love buying old books. It’s like I’m peering into some one else’s life and not just through the stories I read but through the little inscriptions, earmarks, notes, and dedications of past owners and givers like these. Makes the world smaller but a bit more vast all at the same time.

 


 

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Crissey via Facebook sketching on a Fashionary Neon Light.

Sketching on my new @fashionary Neon Light from @AvalonPH ! Giveaway on my blog soon Thank you @AvalonPH #fashion #art #illustration #drawing #inking #fashionillustration #fashionary

 


All images property of their appropriate linked website.

August 2013 links

Various links we shared via our social network accounts for August 2013:

fuckyeahbookarts

August 15: Found on the web http://fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com/

“A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts! Posts here will feature artist’s books, illustration, book binding, typography, sketch-booking, scrap-booking, print-making, paper making, altered books, how to guides, zines, paper engineering and more!”


August 17: Recommended viewing to our journal / notebook buyers. Bullet Journal


game

August 18: Let’s play a game. Name the book based on its word cloud. Post your scores! http://www.sporcle.com/games/ubergerber/word-cloud-titles


 

readingfeast

August 21: How does reading affect your senses? From one of our dear customers, Reading: A Feast for the Senses –http://jennifernon.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/reading-a-feast-for-the-senses/


fieldnotesmanli

August 23: The Manly Tradition of the Pocket Notebookhttp://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/23/the-manly-tradition-of-the-pocket-notebook/


And we leave you with image of the month from Twitter user @lilynovels

Books + Cat combo, from Twitter user @lilynovels

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All images from their appropriate linked website.