Looking for last-minute holiday gifts? The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store is always a good go-to shop. This year I found quite a few gorgeous Asian art items, and it just so happened that all of the pieces were less than $25! So I put together this guide—you can order any of the below items by searching by item number at the store website.

A. Hiroshige Cherry Blossom Christmas Ornament: The design adapts a delicate cherry blossom in the foreground of a color woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). Lovely but short-lived, cherry blossoms are a recurring motif in Japanese art that symbolize the passing of time. Produced in cooperation with the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Silver plate, with hand-applied enamel. Diameter 3 3/4 in. Includes a silver cord for hanging. Item #10-073617: $17.50 each.

B. Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons Holiday Cards: The colorful floral design decorating these elegant holiday cards is reproduced from a detail from a pair of early 19th-century six-panel painted screens by Japanese artist Nakamura Hochu. Produced in cooperation with The British Museum, London. 15 accordion-style cards, 15 white envelopes per box. Item #11-068186: $8.98.

C. Fruits and Flowers Bridge Set: The card game of bridge can be traced back to the 19th century, when the earliest known bridge rule book was found. A richly colored fruits and flowers motif is depicted on the playing cards and score pad, which together form a handsome gift set. Produced in cooperation with The Art Institute of Chicago. Double deck of bridge cards and score pad with instructions. Item #11-021854: $19.95.

D. Flowers of Asia Notecards: The notecards are a celebration of chrysanthemums, peonies, poppies, lotuses, and irises delicately rendered by Chinese and Japanese masters, and shown in fine detail. The images are reproduced from works in the Museum's collection by artists such as Kitagawa Sosetsu, Ogata Korin, Utagawa Hiroshige, Suzuki Kiitsu, Utamaro Kitagawa, and Qian Weicheng. 3 each of 12 images, 36 cards per box. Boxed with 38 envelopes. Item #11-067386: $21.95.

E. Japanese Robes Notecards: Details of birds, flowers, and trees decorate these notecards, which feature reproductions of lavishly embroidered Japanese silk robes from the Edo period (1615–1868) that are now in the Museum's collection. 4 each of 5 images, 20 cards per box. Includes 21 envelopes in a keepsake box. Item #11-068350: $14.95.

"Studies suggest that creative people often share more personality traits with the mentally ill than “normal” people in less creative pursuits. One Stanford University study compared patients with bipolar disorder with a group of healthy people. They found that graduate students in creative disciplines shared more personality traits with the bipolar patients than with their healthy but less creative peers ..."

Mattresses are our friends. For years, mattresses selflessly serve our sleeping pleasure. We should all be grateful for our mattresses; after all, most of us were conceived on one.

Why, then, are our mattresses being abandoned in dumps and left to the seagulls? Every year in the U.S. 40 million mattresses get thrown in the trash. Don’t our mattresses deserve another chance?

Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon National Social Innovations invite entrants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products.

The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale.

• ASW: With coupon codes listed on the homepage, you can get $5 to $20 off orders over $50 through Dec. 8.
• Blick Art Materials: Through Dec. 8, you can get $5 to $20 off orders over $50 with the coupon code on this page.
• Cheap Joe's: Numerous deals in the sale flyer, and free shipping on orders over $250, through Dec. 31.
• Jerry's Artarama: Save 10 percent on any order through Dec. 9 with the coupon code found on this page.
• Legion Paper: Ten percent of every purchase made in its Overstock Store through Dec. 31 will be donated to the Children's Health Fund.
• MisterArt.com: Half off normal shipping rates for orders over $60 through Dec. 9.
  

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To get us in the thanksgiving spirit here at Rule29, we’ve already started drawing our hand turkeys and hanging them on the fridge. But we need more hand turkeys to completely cover the fridge, and we’re asking for your help. Download the template below, use creative magic to draw a sweet hand turkey, and then scan and email them back to us at mail@rule29.com, we’ll post all of the entries below, and one lucky hand turkey will win a $25 iTunes gift card as our way to show our thanks to you. Please have your Turkeys back to us by close of business Nov. 25th or early the 26th.

Like one-liners and knick-knacks? In the video above, The New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens gives a tour of his home studio in Florida. You can read more about the magazine's cartoonists on its blog.

Elaine: Come on, we're two intelligent people here. We can figure this out. Now we got a dog and a cat in an office.

Jerry: It looks like my accountant's office but there's no pets working there.

Elaine: The cat is saying, "I've enjoyed reading your e-mail."

George: Maybe it's got something to do with that 42 in the corner.

Elaine: It's a page number.

George: Well, I can't crack this one.

Elaine: Aahh! this has got to be a mistake.

• Bart Healy, Collingswood NJ
• Don Bronson, Clearfield UT
• Tracy Leuth, Bettendorf IA
• Linda Freund, Simi Valley CA
• Marilyn Doerter, Elida OH
• Kurt Jacobson, Anchorage AK
• Loisanne Kelle, Tucson AZ
• April Lopez, Kennewick WA
• Susan Genge, Crawford CO
• Crysteelaurie Abrams

I hope to be able to visit this awesome show, but if I can't make it, the video tour above will just have to suffice. (Not sure if the Velvet Underground soundtrack is included in the admission fee.) Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms "sheds new light on the celebrated pop artist and focuses on the ideas at the heart of his work: embracing consumer culture, exploring sexual identity, challenging social conventions, and erasing distinctions between high and low culture."

The exhibit runs through February 15, 2009, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets cost $8 for adults, or $5 for visitors ages 13-17 or older than 65. Free to Wexner Center and Warhol Club members, college students with ID, visitors younger than 12, and free to all visitors every Thursday evening and first Sunday of each month.