Advent 2

Advent 1

Here's a little coloring page for a verse for the first week of Advent.
Right click to download. Print horizontally on letter paper.

Time to color and eat cake!

Dear Molly,
Happy 4th birthday! Thanks for sharing your Cheeze-Its™ with me one rainy summer day. Hope you share these with your friends and have fun coloring. Please promise me that you will one day try another color other than purple (though it is grand, in all its forms!).

Have Mommy click on each of these images and print at 100% size horizontally on letter paper. Luke can show her how to do it. :)

Update: success!

Wayne

Go see my friend Wayne's amazing repertoire of collage work, hand-lettering, and painting.

My twin and I were lucky enough to attend a collage workshop with him one sweaty June weekend in Nashville last year, and it was wonderful. He has created art for a whole slew of big name clients as well as very smart little clients who love his inimitable style, including the LA Times, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Country Music Hall of Fame, Warner Brothers, Columbia Records, EMI and Sony. It has been my pleasure to work with him in an office environment as well as to make huge messes with him in a studio environment. He is also one of the sweetest and genuine folks I've ever met, with an insane love for coffee. And if he sees this post and okays it, I might put up some of his work here, but for now try him on Facebook, hit up Pinterest, or check his blog.

E D

Happy Birthday, Mr Mozart

My favorite.

Let my armies....

One must train...

hearts r us

i don't normally love the overused heart motif (ba dum bum) but i created a version of this for a women's retreat and it was warmly received. and since i saw st. patrick's day schlock in stores this week, i figured i'm not really ahead in posting this.

Psalm 121

fun with patterns

Having a little fun messing with some art created for a job. I've always enjoyed playing with patterns in Illustrator, but I've gotten rusty. I need some reason to design fabric...

To be blessed

A quote from one of my favorite authors, on an iPhone photo by a favorite artist.

from Psalm 148

I can't stop looking at the images from the Hubble...inspiring!

50 years since...

It's been 50 years since the publishing of "A Wrinkle in Time"... one of my most favorite books of all time and genre. There's been a lot of web-hubbub about it, from Facebook to Wired to mom-blogs...and rightly so, in my opinion. The only thing about the new edition I'm not excited about is the cover. But then it would be tough for anything to do it justice, though there have been some memorable ones in the past:

The lower cover is the one I remember first reading in the teeny library at my K-12 school in West Texas. Hooked from the first page in Mrs Burrow's 5th grade class. Still one of the best!

for Allison

“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.” 

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

—Frederick Buechner

pink and green

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sol que tú eres...

Love to Java from Sol.

I had a particularly good cup of coffee this week from the fine folks at Roast, Inc. Check them out.

Color