Friends and Family Sale at Chronicle Books

We've learned more about the publishing industry from the lovely Galley Cat than we did, say, in school, or pretty much anywhere else for that matter, and yesterday they did us the extra-lovely turn of pointing us toward the ongoing—but only today! ends at midnight!—friends \ family sale at our excessively favorited Chronicle Books, which publishes basically every book we want to read \ own. Discount code = "friends" = 30%. Perfect for gifts for self, or others, if we must. Our top picks:

1. Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing, $24.95, with discount $17.46. Honestly we have wanted this for a billion years, give or take.

2. The Guerrila Art Kit, $24.95, with discount $17.46. Because if we're not going to get all guerrila about our art, apparently no one on the world is going to miss it, etc. Vive la revolucion d'art! Etc.

3. 20th Century Pattern Design, was $35, with discount, $24.50. Because we are sure if we think about it really, really hard, we can totally be next Marimekko etc.