Let’s do this!

Stop the Trump Power Grab! Sending off a batch of get-out-the-vote postcards in support of #CAprop50 #activateAmerica Vote YES on Prop 50! More info at StopElectionRigging.com Fish Postcards designed by yours truly 😁

Magnificent color clash - last of the sweet peas with the first dahlia

Trying hard to immerse myself in creative work

Thanks @garyivory.bsky.social !Gary is an A+++ postcard writer! Great campaign to supporting getting out the blue vote ✔️✔️✔️

My extra cool new-to-me vintage vase with flowers from my patio #bloomscrolling

A parent complaint about a nonbinary snail led a Virginia elementary school principal to cancel a visit by author Erica S. Perl. A former trial attorney, Perl offers a lesson in smart booking contracts and standing up to book and author challenges. www.slj.com/story/My-Sch...

I'm participating in the San Diego Book Crawl! Celebrating 14 independent bookstores. I'll be at the UC San Diego Bookstore this Sunday afternoon, come visit us! ift.tt/ZGupoqx

Great Blue Heron spotted on my walk today

Showing off in San Diego

Here’s a hibiscus for you. That color range 🧡🩷

Enjoying a PACKED protest today in San Diego

I'm so very happy! Copies of the Danish edition of Betty Builds It have arrived! I am author illustrator of this picture book about a robot girl who likes to build things. Danish publisher is Arkimedes Forlag (US publisher is Turner Publishing). Sending ❤️& 🤖 to the children of Denmark!

The comments…this cookie is us

Taking a deep breath and letting this image wash over me

It’s funny because it’s true

I don’t usually post for #Caturday, but I saw the Oscar winning animated movie FLOW last night and have to say: Highly Recommended. Art is STUNNING. 5 years in the making! These artists really know every detail as to how a cat moves

School board races are so critically important!

I’ll just mention my favorite color is green, and has been since I was a child

Self portrait, 1649 by Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier, recently recognized as an outstanding Baroque artist. Her paintings were previously attributed to male artists, including her brother, as happened to other past female artists #womensart

Reposting some art I made in support of Ukraine shortly after the dictator Putin started the full scale invasion of their country. We all know the truth of this aggression. Blue and Yellow - the colors of the Ukrainian Flag, the sunflower, a national symbol. Slava Ukraine!

Yes, joining the boycott tomorrow and hoping it packs a punch

Licensed in 1942. Trail blazing woman. #BlackHistoryMonth

Astounding

Deep into my #crochet addiction. Patterns from Esme Crick’s Mix and Match Crochet Blankets. These will get worked to 40” stripes and pieced together.

Wondrous things in the world

Happy Yellow Day for those who celebrate (actually a real holiday, but in June)

Some people are still fighting. Great work here on an important campaign. #PostcardsToVoters

Plan accordingly, folks:

Vintage #Kidlit Illustration by Margaret Ely Webb from the 1909 book Old Fashioned Fairy Tales written by Marion Washburne. Details I love: Butterfly child holding a cookie and a doll - kindly old woman giving advice - illustrators initials on the bench - lovely use of spot color

New #crochet project. I love getting to the part past the first three rows, fun to see the pattern emerge and best of all when you understand the pattern well enough to not have to look at every stitch in the 9 repeating rows instructions. Now I can listen to music with lyrics and not lose my place.

Artist Isobelle Ouzman carves intricate 3D illustrations into discarded books found in dumpsters, recycling bins, and local thrift shops #WomensArt

Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day with more vintage #Kidlit. This puppy handed out many valentines cards to his neighborhood, got a nice surprise when he returned home. A Tiny Golden Book from 1949. Happy Valentine by Dorothy Kunhardt, illustrated by Garth Williams. Love his sweet animals!

When your love of crafts projects dovetails with your murderous intentions

I'm fascinated by vintage #kidlit . One of my earliest memories: this scene from Mrs. Sheep's Little Lamb. I remember being profoundly worried for this little lamb girl getting lost in a grocery store. One of the Tiny Golden Books by Dorothy Kunhardt, art by Garth Williams, first published in 1949

🥰 This post, photo #BlackHistoryMonth

Amazing

This is how I cope with the state of the world

Good image for current mood

Finished my first big #crochet project, washed, and will try to steam block next? Blocking advice would be welcomed. Next I just need an event to go to wearing my glamorous hippie shawl #yarnarts

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

Love everything about this but especially the composition. By Margaret Ely Webb from the 1909 book Old Fashioned Fairy Tales written by Marion Washburne.

This speaks to me. More lovely vintage #kidlit ink work by John R. Neill from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum 1913

Achievement unlocked! Just learned how to make a picot stitch. Going forward everything might have a frilly border #crochet #yarnarts

Vintage (1920’s) illustration by Mildred Lyon for The Gingerbread Boy. I’m fascinated by old pen and ink drawings. Curious how sensibilities have changed in story telling…#kidlit

Current mood

Hooray for all the kid inventors out there!

So fun to see the colors morph into the project using variegated yard. I’ll use the whole cake, so this will be a shawl for a gargantuan #crochet

Absolutely wild party at my house tonight, gonna #crochet like there’s no tomorrow. Happy New Year everyone!