These bookplates should be available before Christmas at Vermont bookstores and gift shops.
Proceeds to benefit Reach Out and Read.

Great news- my f&g has arrived and it looks great, thanks to the designers at Dutton. It looks like this book is scheduled for Spring 2010- just in time for Father's Day.
Keep an eye out for it!

Good news! It looks like my new books will be coming out next year. The first is entitled: How about a Kiss for Me? by Todd Tarpley. I can't wait for this one.
The second will be out in time for the snow in Winter 2010, entitled, Ten in a Sled, by Kim Norman.
Here's a sneak preview of each of them:

My art appears today on a Publisher's Weekly Blog written by booksellers Josie Leavitt and Elizabeth Bluemle of our local bookstore the Flying Pig. http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266.html

Yikes, I can't remember when I last put something up! I finished a little educational job recently that I can share. Other than that, it has been a quiet summer with lots of time with the kids and work on the magazine. I did actually finish my book "How About a Kiss for Me?" recently, and hopefully it will be out next spring/summer. More to come on that subject.

Here's a fun idea for cupcakes. We took regular cupcakes and iced the top with plain white frosting. I used a pastry bag to pipe frosting on in a mound for the nose. Once the frosting was done, I put on the ears. The ears were 1/4 of a marshmallow placed right on the frosting. I then cut junior mints in half to make a nice fat nose to put on the mound of frosting in the middle. Two chocolate chips made eyes. Presto. . . polar bears!

this middle bear is my favorite

but they all have a little bit of personality

baptisia and geranium
when our chickens lie in the garden they look like they are dying
have you ever seen anything as ridiculous as this Auracana chicken with a silly hairdo?
irises
the clematis did survive despite my rough transplant. . .
see?

a pretty close up of a tulip in our yard
and more tulips and some dandilions

tulips grow in the middle of our yard where there once was a garden

I was playing with a drawing that I did for Edie's science enrichment. I wish I could do more in photoshop. . .

In getting this piece ready for a show, I played with pastels to give some depth to the background. Pastels are lovely, but highly toxic and very messy on a small piece like this. I wonder about pastel pencils. I will post the before and after pieces.