sometimes I feel like I am being followed

maybe I'm just paranoid. . . 

or maybe not

Miss Cross

I am playing with ideas for a character who is very grouchy.
Number 1:

 Number 2:

 Number 3 is a bit scary.  I feel like she was inspired by someone I saw in the sheep and wool area at a fair.  Probably best not to include her in a children's book.

Self portrait

Here I am when I was about six:

 and then a little older, around age 9. 

 

Growing up, I was the kid with papers flying out of my backpack.  I loved animals and poking around our local pond. After a visit to the pond, I would return home with a coffee can filled with pond water and fat tadpoles that I would keep for a few days.