Chicken Lily Coloring Page

Happy Coloring!

Swag

Look at this adorable magnet! I ordered it from PureButtons and am thrilled with how it turned out. I also placed an order with StandOut Stickers and am working on a bookmark and probably a postcard, too, that I will order from GotPrint. I have ordered from GotPrint for ages, their prices are great as is the quality and customer service. StandOut Stickers is a terrific company, I have ordered from them before, too. There will for sure be a giveaway here when CL makes her debut, so stay tuned (and I will get all of my ducks, er, chickens... in a row)! xo

Spring Children's Books

I just had to get the PW spring announcement 

issue because Chicken Lily is in it:

Lori Mortensen has two more books coming out this spring, too!

There are a LOT of books that I am really looking forward to, including:

 

You can imagine my surprise when I found this on page 170... yay!

2016

Breathing a sigh of relief- it's a new year!

I'm excited for everyone to meet Chicken Lily

and looking forward to making loads of new art,

cheering on friends as their books are published,

submitting my new book dummy to publishers,

knitting some new scarves, reading lots of books,

and drinking cup after cup after cup of tea.

Wishing you every happiness in 2016!

Shop Talk

I recently opened a Redbubble shop and I am so glad that I did. 

The quality of the products is excellent and the merchandise arrives carefully packaged (and yet, not overly packaged) in a very timely fashion. 

Greeting cards, stickers, and a print from Joanna Hunt's shop 

arrived in perfect condition.

T-shirts and stickers from Andi Butler's Eleven Santas series. 

Aren't they funny!?!

This is the sweet tote bag I ordered from Gina Perry 

(adorable greeting cards not pictured).

My Mini White Stars mug pictured alongside 

Gina Perry's original Earth Fox painting 

(which is also available on products in her shop).

Be sure to check out these fantastic shops:

Andi Butler

Amy Vasterling

Joanna Hunt

Renee Kurilla

Gina Perry

Squirrel Sketch

Working on something new for Halloween, this is a bit from the sketch I just started. I love the weirdness of how ideas happen and look forward to seeing how the final piece will turn out.

I also posted this sketch at The Sketchables today. Happy sketching!

Back-To-School

Hello! My kids have officialy been in school for 5 days now. I miss having them at home during the day, but they are enjoying school so far so that is pretty great. Ticking things off my to-do list is a good feeling: our new storm door has been installed and new window boxes are up (the house colors turned out great, btw!), the dogs have been to the vet, and I even scheduled a furnace tune-up. I have some book dummies out on submission right now so that is exciting, working on a new picture book manuscript that will eventually turn into a dummy, and revisiting a painting I started a while ago. Getting all of my duck, duck, gray ducks in a row is a very nice feeling.

p.s. I made my first meme this summer. It barely makes sense. Christopher Walken played The Continental on SNL. Knitting with the yarn in your left hand is the continental style, knitting with the yarn in your right hand is the english style. ha