Just in time for the holidays! Here is a super-simple printable that just uses plain old letter size cardstock. Each print, cut down the middle, creates 2, A2 sized greeting cards that you or your kids can color for teachers, friends and family. The perfect festive craft to keep the kids busy for a while [...]

AWESOMENESS!! My friend, Ashley, at Lil Blue Boo asked me to illustrate a coloring-book-style backdrop for her adorable “Box o’ Princesses” tutorial, and i’m making the download a freebie! Just click here for the B&W, letter-size download that you can print at home. It includes a label for your box, the color-able princess village backdrop, [...]

Here are some sneak peeks at the proofs from our family photo shoot which was a gift to my folks for christmas. Photos taken by Ryan Estes Photography in Pottstown, PA. He is crazy talented and so warm, friendly and funny. We will absolutely be hiring him to do this again a few years down [...]

Look at the awesomeness that lovely, susie, from Phairytale jewelry is making for me! i saw this awesome round “ELECTRIC” token on susie’s site and just loved it. My husband is an electrician and i thought it would be a sweet and quirky way to symbolize him close to my heart. susie was game to [...]

You know its bad when you start photographing new shipments of art supplies as lovingly as you do your children. But…..see what arrived today!? And that’s just the first box! i’ll be diving into my studio to start covering canvases with these yummies starting this weekend. Aren’t they precious? …and lest you think i’ve lost [...]

These sketches are my very first rough comps for a kids book i’ve been wanting to write for a long time….but have been too scared to do. The little girl is a crazy, messy, looney-toons art girlie. Yep. Sounds about right. : ) Wish me luck!

My sister-in-law (and nieces!) hosted a little book party to celebrate my first foray into the world of publishing last week. She made some fun snacks and the moms chatted in the kitchen while i held court with about 15 little girls in the dining room. i told them about my job as an illustrator/designer [...]

The past year has been a whirlwind of pregnancy, baby, artwork, design work, some amazing new business opportunities and my first baby steps into the world of publishing! i feel extremely lucky for all that has come my way this past year. i have always dreamed of having a book published with my artwork or [...]

Ok mamas with little boys (like me!)….you asked for it! Here is my first 3-pak of boys tee graphics available in my etsy shop. i used a scritchy-scratchy texture to draw these and they are really inspired by my son who is 5. He was instrumental in helping me narrow down the offerings in this [...]

i love sharing fun works in progress (with client permission, of course). This one is a siblings portrait commission that will be executed in inks on a sanded wood panel that has layers of depth added with glazes of color. An over-sized and multicolored flower in the hair…think we are changing to a peony and [...]