Can't sleep. #dailydrawing

tooo tooooooo hot.. #dailydrawing

My to do lists are out of control. #dailydrawing

THE SMALLER YOU ARE THE BIGGER CHRISTMAS IS. Underneath the Christmas tree Christmas is vast, it is a green jungle with red apples and sad, peaceful angels twirling around on cotton thread keeping watch over the entrance to the primaeval forest. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

By that time the whole of Helsinki was full of amazed People flying. No one did any work... All the new-born babies were flying and all the very old people and their cats and dogs and guinea-pigs and monkeys just everybody! Even the President was out flying! - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

Down there the whole town was burning. Down there sat the crow saying: it was your fault that I died. And the Unmentionable Thing crawled under the mat. But I just went on flying. Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

Then everything started shrinking. Every piece of furniture became elongated and narrow and disappeared towards the ceiling. There was something crawling under the rag rugs in the hall. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

"A dark man went on shovelling outside the door and all of a sudden I started to cry and I screamed: I'll bite him! I'll go outside and bite him!" - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

Getting older isn't easy. Actually, it's pretty annoying. #dailydrawing

Getting older isn't easy. Actually, it's pretty annoying. #dailydrawing

Dancing. #dailydrawing

I ADORE with mama meme and wanted to draw my own. Then my kids added themself to drawing. (I forgot to add a child to my drawing but this way it is even better, good idea @sep7_ember ). #withmama #mamaposting

In fact, she said after a while, we have gone into hibernation. Nobody can get in any longer and no one can get out! Sometimes we growled. We let the dangerous world outside look after itself, it had died, it had fallen out into space. Only Mummy and I were left. Sculptor's Daughter by T Jansson

There was a strong draught and the wind blew right in from the harbour through all the rooms and out on to the staircase and more and more creatures ran out until there wasn't a single one left. They laughed as they ran. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

I kept my eyes on it the whole time. Now it was moving so slowly that you couldn't really see whether it was coming towards you or not. Occasionally its shape changed just slightly and its black tummy swept over the concrete floor. I could hardly breathe. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

I crawled right up to Daddy's modelling mirror which stands on the floor by the box of plaster. A great big black creature was creeping towards me. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

What a wonderful Kirkus review! (Paired here with my favorite improper contraction.) "A thoughtful look at life, in all its beauty and strangeness. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I got fed up with her because she wasn't happy. I don't like it when people find life difficult. It gives me a bad conscience and then I get angry and begin to feel that they might as well go somewhere else. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Last spring we had nineteen canaries. I must tell you, once and for all, that canaries are very virulent birds. It starts with the mother bird and the father bird. They have babies. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

DADDY LOVES ALL ANIMALS BECAUSE THEY don't contradict him... But it's quite a different matter with Females. If you make statues of them they become women but as long as they remain Females things are difficult. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

I am so happy to share with you this starred review from the Publisher's Weekly. So thrilled that this wonderful book is resonating with people and pickles out there in the world! www.publishersweekly.com/9781774886984 The Wise Pickle Sarah Howden, illustrated by Sabina Hahn. Tundra

I went on ahead to the house, crying all the way, but now it was mostly to make an impression. Sculptor's daughter by Tove Jansson. #dailydrawing #toveJansson

O alas and alack! No one wants your presents. You're nobody's surprise, and you can't understand because you're not an artist! And so I went a little closer and humiliated her by saying the most terrible thing of all: You're an amateur! You're not a real artist! - Sculptor's Daughter by T Jansson

Lie about it later.

One year towards autumn a geologist was living in the pilots' hut. He couldn't speak either Finnish ow Swedish, he just smiled and flashed his black eyes..His name was Jeremiah. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Albert picked (the seagull) up by the neck and looked at it, and it began to screech and flap one wing. Let it go! I shouted. Everything looked so terrifying with the fog and the black water and the bird creeping around and screaming that I was beside myself... - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

It was slow work paddling but we got going We reached deep water, but that was all right because we had both nearly learned to swim. After a while we entered the sound near Red Rock. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

Happy New Year! May this year of a Red Fire Horse be a galloping great fun! The world is absurd, so pick an absurd horse for yourself for the year of a Horse. There is nearly nothing in the world that is as absurd as the English as She is Spoke.

I went to the beach again and said: fish suffer just as much as people do. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson #dailydrawing #tovejansson

I turned the key and waited. After a while the door opened of its own accord, very slowly as if someone inside the wardrobe was forcing it. And then the black tulle skirt poured forth and the door stood still. I did the same thing several times. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

Once I found a boat made of bark that was called Darling... But Daddy said I didn't have to find out who owned it. Maybe nothing is so important provided that it is small enough. At least that's what I think. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

If a thousand girls walked past under this tree not one of them would have the faintest idea that I am sitting up there. The pine cones are green and very hard. My feet are brown. And the wind is blowing right through my hair. Sculptor's daughter by Tove Jansson. #dailydrawing #toveJansson

Fanny was sitting on the fence singing the great rain song. Sculptor's daughter by Tove Jansson. #sculptorsdaughter #toveJansson #dailydrawing

To draw a forest so it's big enough you don't include the tops of the trees or any sky. Just very thick tree-trunks growing absolutely straight. Sculptor's daughter by Tove Jansson.

The house is grey, the sky and the sea are grey, and the field is grey with dew. It's four o'clock in the morning and I have saved three important hours which can be counted as extra. Or perhaps three and a half. Sculptor's daughter by Tove Jansson.

Now I had to make up my mind. And that's an awful thing to have to do. Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson. #dailydrawing #toveJansson

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets and a woman forgives but never forgets. .. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're safe. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

People stopped and tapped on the pavement with their umbrellas and said all sorts of things... I pulled my woolly hat down over my eyes and just went on rolling and rolling and rolling and then the stone had to cross the road. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

The moss and the rubbish are slippery and jagged old tins glitter at the bottom. For hundreds of years they have piled up higher and higher against a long dark-red house without windows. The red house crawls round the rock and it is very significant that it has no windows. - Tove Jansson

I made my golden calf in the arbour because it was a pagan place and a circle is always a good setting for sculpture. It was very difficult to get the legs to stay upright but in the end they did and I nailed them to the socle just to make sure. - Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

God lived on the hill above the rock-garden and there was a forbidden cart up there...He could make himself quite small and creep in everywhere in order to see what one was doing and sometimes he was only a great big eye. Moreover he looked just like Grandfather. Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

Grandfather was a clergyman.... Once, before his children and his children's children and his children's children's children covered the face of the earth, Grandfather came to a long field which was surrounded by forests and hills so that it looked like Paradise. - Tove Jansson

But didn't say.

It wants what it wants but... #dailydrawing

It's worth it.

The weight of water.

So they say.

Patience is free. And untruer words have not been spoken. #dailydrawing

BUT! What if we didn't ?!