This year, my kids and I decided to join forces and create a children’s book. The result is An Elf Erased My Picture , a story about a misch...

This past weekend we had the most dreary weather imaginable - cold, wind, and drizzle all day long, perfect weather for getting creative. My...

A little while before lockdown began, my boys and I went to a dinosaur museum to sketch. As an illustrator I’m used to bringing my sketchboo...

In our little neighborhood in Cambridge in the UK, my children have a nice group of friends that they enjoy playing with after school and ...

This is just a brief note to let you know that I will be selling screenprints and linocuts next weekend at The Guildhall in Cambridge, UK. ...

A Linocut and watercolor  illustration From inspiration  to cover design This morning at  the World Book Day event in my child's ...

When did you get so big? I remember hearing that line when I was a kid all the time.  I never realized just how true it is.  Kids really do...

Underwear is a big thing in our house.   My three year old Jonas not only loves to pick out which undies he wants to wear in the morning, bu...

Before I had kids, I thought that you only lost sleep the first six weeks after a child was born.   Boy, was I naïve!    I never realized ...

I just love this Advent Calendar from Jen's Ink Spot !  It has such a personal touch and fits in with the true spirit of Advent. Instea...

The German rainy season has now begun.  Even though my children both have plastic overalls, rain jackets, and rubber boots that they can w...

My boy Lukas loves to cuddle, so I hated laying him in an empty crib. Although I used to think that babies should always be in their cribs...

Do you make calendars for grandma and grandpa every year? We always make ourselves a copy as well.  It's so nice to look at the pictur...

My husband and I decided to get a baby travel crib to use as a baby crib for Lukas’s first few months. Our apartment is not very large, and...

When I was a little girl, the door frame to my bedroom was covered in marks depicting not only my height at various ages, but also the heigh...

This is one of my first sewing projects after getting pregnant with my first child. My husband and I knew that we would be moving the same ...