Felting a Fairy Village

Felting a Fairy Village

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 Lessons

Online Needle Felting Lessons

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...
Felting Children’s Book Illustrations

Felting Children’s Book Illustrations

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...
Lichendia Felting Lessons Hitting a Stride

Lichendia Felting Lessons Hitting a Stride

For three months now I’ve held a free felting lesson on Zoom the third Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm EST. I am having an absolute blast! Each week my community of felting artists is growing 6-15% and every monthly lesson the number of people logging in has...
Books, precious little lambs, happy hearts

Books, precious little lambs, happy hearts

Welcome to LichendiaĀ® Would you like to hear some fabulous news? The paperback copies of Fairy Spells and Strawberry Elves are in and the first batch of books have been shipped! The hardcover edition is in the final stages at the printers and will be done soon!...