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I’m so excited to share a more in depth look at my Fairy Friends books? If you’re familiar with my fairy friends nature paper dolls, which you can download and decorate here, you’ll see where this series started to take flight. I loved using nature to transport these little sprites into the very real and magnificent world …
Just wanted to pop in and share that my book PLAYFUL: Fun Projects to Make With + For Kids is up on Amazon for pre-order. We had gone back on forth on a cover and they cover committee settled on this one. So fun! PLAYFUL is divided into five categories—Playful Dress Up, Playful Toys, Playful …
Happy Friday friends! A big thanks to all of you who entered the Hand in Hand: Crafting with Kids Giveaway! You had some wonderful things to say about crafting and creating with kids. I was inspired! And now to announce the winner! The winner of the Hand in Hand:Crafting with Kids book giveaway is comment …
Friends, I’ve been dying to share this gem of a book with all of you! Hand in Hand: Crafting with Kids, by Jenny Doh, hit the shelves on April 3rd and I’ve been waiting until after all the Easter holiday fun was over to introduce this book you. If you are not already familiar with …
In addition to our Random Acts of Advent calendar, I wanted to introduce a new advent idea for this Christmas season. I love and adore children’s picture books and, being an illustrator myself, have quite a collection of them. As of last year, I decided that I wanted to collect enough children’s Christmas picture books …
I’m swimming in wrappings and trimmings and loving every minute of it. Never mind that I was a half an hour late to the Christmas book club party (my sitter was stuck in a Cosco line for 20 min!) or that after giddily wrapping up my book for the giveaway I ended up driving around …
Before having children I’d dream of taking my darling, quiet and adoring children to the library. There they would search the endless stacks of bound treasures with reverent wonder. Together we would select some of our favorite finds and travel off to imaginary places as I read to them in a quiet, tucked away nook. …
Last night we got crafty working on something for the grandmothers on mother’s day. We had fun making custom stationary for Grandma Mary and Grandma Sylvia.and custom artwork…and custom clothes pins for the grandmas to hang artwork, letters, reminders, and more fun things!Jon made his incredible chocolate chip cookies (which have changed our lives forever)…and …
Thank you all for your warm birthday wishes! It really helped to make the weekend great. I wanted to give you a brief update on how lovely my birthday was (even if I am a year over thirty…). I received a fantastically wrapped gift form my two little boys with an illustration on it by …
I’m smitten with Isabelle Arsenault’s cover art for My Letter to the World, a book of Emily Dickinson’s poems. So lovely.