During the January 2022 live monthly felting class, I continued needle felting a picture of a sleeping child, one of the two characters featured on my next book cover. As I usually do, I took pictures throughout the process, which are included on the final lesson...
Was 2021 a mixed bag or what?! It has no doubt been another challenging year, but we’ve made the best of it and we’re looking forward to 2022. We struggled our way through hybrid learning with the kids in kindergarten and second grades while Adam and I were both...
Dotted mushroom caps and fairy houses, curved doors, window boxes, planters, a winding street to the distant mountains. This needle felted illustration has been so much fun to create! Like many of my illustrations for my children’s books, this picture began...
Online Needle Felting Lesson: Brown Bear I prepared for the October 2021 online needle felting lesson by sketching studies of brown bears, pulling reference photos of caves from my archive of family photos, and prepping wool for another month in which our lesson will...
It is high time for another vlog—parenting, four illustrations for the next children’s book in the Lichendia series, a special seasonal book about Winter, time for self-care, and a quick update on the progress made since our house flooded. You know, all the...
