a Peanuts book in its potential state

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The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is not a book… yet. Tips from the Gang is the latest in a line of fabric sheets that are a bit of sewing and cutting (as well as a bit of batting) away from the being a cloth book…. or, if you’re not so enterprising, you can generally find someone on Etsy who has already done the work for you and will charge you a bit more for the privilege. It’s a simple thing, suggestions for living a good life with examples (or counterexamples) with the Peanuts characters. These make for cute semi-hand-made gifts for the youngest set, but I kind of wish there was some blankish space on the cover so that someone who is good with a needle could customize them a bit.

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