when you’re tired of the standard black casement that covers your laptop, your ebook reader, and all of your tech stuff? I discovered the answer when I complained about the problem to my daughter.

Put stickers on it, she told me disbelievingly. (Evidently, it’s the most obvious answer in the world.) So I did. The laptop — purchased at a bargain; a un-black lid was not an option — is still a work in progress, but I can share with you the decor I applied to the cover of my Sony Reader.

I love lucky cats so that’s a given whenever I apply a sticker solution to life’s problems, but what else could I enjoy? That’s when I discovered Newbury Comics’ rock posters and fell in love with the art. So that colorful print of trees? A Yo La Tengo poster. (Love the band. That cartoonish, tokidoki-ish art on their site is sticker-worthy.)

The rock posters also led me to Tara McPherson’s art. I had encountered bits and pieces of her art now and again, but it had been little more than spot motifs in the messy landscape of my visually busy world. So it was wonderful to more fully explore her work and, as a long-time SF fan of sorts, I fell in love with her outer space themes. And the eyeball balloons? Well, that seems to be a definitive McPherson mark.

Funny, isn’t it, where your love of books leads you? It’s always an adventure.