Pirate's Map

Ahoy, there!  Back with you to share a new Pirate’s Map print I made for Little Sleepies.  A perfect way to sail off to bed!  You can see more here.

Greetings little one ❤

I love new beginnings and nothing says “new beginning” like having a baby!  Here’s some art I made for a Papyrus card. 

(💦painted with watercolor)

 

Choo, Choo!

 

With back to school just around the corner Little Sleepies just dropped something fun for little learners, the Education Express collection featuring my art.  I made this print thinking of all the kiddos heading to school for the very first time.  An adventure for sure!  (even for their parents)

 

 

Summer in full bloom

 

My very favorite season by far!

Greeting July

Summer sun seeking, to me that's what July is all about!

Birthday Builders

This is my Birthday Builders print purchased by Little Sleepies.  I love the idea of a variety of construction vehicles helping to build a beautiful birthday.  A dump truck filled with candles ready to deliver.  I tall crane carefully placing candles a top a towering cake. A forklift hulling the perfect cake slice.  And my favorite a digger dropping off a big scoop of sprinkles. 

Hope this puts you in the mood to party!  Available now (for a limited time) at Little Sleepies.  Life is sweet with so much to celebrate!

Happy Summer Solstice

 

Bring on the sunshine!

Top pops!

 

Happy Father's Day to all the special dads.  I feel lucky to have a wonderful dad who has always cheered me on!  And very lucky to have picked a man who is a truly terrific father.  Does my heart good! 💙

What's your sign?

 

Coming to you today with some zodiac signs and your horoscope.

—You're going to have a good week,

a VERY good week!—

 P.S. I'm a Leo

Decisions

 

 Patterned houses- which one would you like to vacation in this summer?

 

I think I'd stay in the pink patchwork house in the bottom left.

 

 

The grey flowery house is my second favorite but I could stare at that from the circular window in the pink house. 

So it's a win/win in my mind!

All the pretty colors.

 Counting butterflies as we flutter through the first long weekend that feels like summer!

🦋

Decided to stop at 11.  I've been noticing 11:11 a lot lately.
 

Hello, World! Let's Go Camping Activity

 I put this activity together for my story time at the Kansas City Public Library.  As you can see it's based off my board book Let's Go Camping.  This will keep your kiddo busy as there's coloring, cutting, and pasting.  You can download these two pages here, along with many other Hello, World! coloring pages.

 

Once the trail is colored to liking you move on to the animal, nature, and camping items.

Cut the colored outdoor items out and paste to the trail imaging what you'd like to see along the way.  Happy coloring, happy campers!

Homemade badges

 

My favorite thing about Scouts was always the badges.  Even over the cookies!  As summer quickly approaches what kind of badge would like to earn for your outdoor activities?  I’d like to earn one for 100 hours of kayaking.  Or planting enough trumpet shaped flowers to get a record number of hummingbirds in my backyard.  I love those busy little birds and the sense of adventure that comes with the warm summer months.

 

 

Design Bloc surface design show

 

Antonio will be showing my surface design collection at the Design Bloc show in NYC this Thursday and Friday. (May 16-17^th) at the Metropolitan Pavilion. If you’re a buyer or art director in the area looking for art this is a great chance to see art and its makers in person.  There are 35 different studios exhibiting so there’s something for everyone.  Hope you'll stop by!

 

Mothers love 💕

 I'm still thinking about moms with their babies.

This was before he was 2 ft taller than me!

 

💜

To finding strength you didn’t know you had and love you had never imagined.  Motherhood is the ultimate act of optimism in my mind. (and I'm generally not very optimistic) 😅

Happy Mother’s Day!

Little things that make me happy.

 

Birds, blossoms and pears, doesn't get much better than that in my book.

 

 

 

Oh, and red can't forget red.  I love that color!

Spring pairings

 

We have 7 peonies bushes in our yard that we've planted in our yard over the past 10 years.  I look forward to spring and a steady flow of fragrant, colorful flowers to enjoy indoors.  I'm so impressed with the yellow variety it's a Duchesse De Lorriane with a name almost as fancy as it's bloom!

This piece I drew with pen and painted with watercolor has nothing to do with peonies but at a glance they seem like good friends. (and go together quite nicely)

Story Time fabric collection coming soon

 

Counting the days until I can share my new fabric collection with P & B Textiles with YOU.  It’s called Story Time and turned out oh so charming!  It's perfect for newborn to toddler ages.  🪡

A welcoming...

 New love, new joy, and new little mouths to feed!

This is a card I made for Design House Greeting last spring inspired by my neighbors apple tree and the momma robin who made her nest there.  I studied her new chirping family every morning while I drank my coffee.  

She’d fly back and forth with a beak full of worms to feed her chicks.  I admired her diligence and dedication and thought yes, motherhood can be hard but at least as human moms we don’t have to feed our little ones that way.

Here's the work in progress and the final card. It's available at Trader Joe's.

Around the World

 

Pack your bags, let's globe trot!  This is a map print Little Sleepies commissioned me to do last year.  

As you can see there's a lot to look at!

 

My Around the World map ties into my love of making fun, colorful art that you can learn from.

 

(And visit time and time again to soak up all the little details.) Where do you want to explore next?  

 

 

Maybe you'll dream about it tonight?

 

To see more product formats with my Around the World print visit Little Sleepies.

Look, you can even deck the entire family out in them!

 

Monkey business

 

Apes are fascinating to watch!  They're also fun to draw.

Types of tea

 

Do you have a favorite type of tea?  I like Jasmine or Portland Breakfast (from Smith Teamaker) & really don't like anything with chamomile. I don't get that flavor?  On the note of decisive flavors, I do like cilantro although I've never tried that in tea.

Happy Easter

 

Bunnies, blooms, and a few chicks — hope you're enjoying an eggscellent EASTER weekend! 🍫

 

 My favorite bunny ended up being the one with the prize winning carrot. 

Spring is in the air!

 

This is a cut paper piece I licensed to Design House Greetings last spring.  I enjoyed snipping out all the flowers and spring characters.  Do you have a favorite?  I like the bird on a circular branch in the bottom right corner.  That's the fun thing about spring, so many new little details to enjoy.

Duck, duck, goose

 

 

I like birds, especially ones with somewhat silly and curious dispositions, like geese.

This art was turned into a gift bag and wrap by Jillson Roberts.  It would make a delightful theme for a baby shower!