Tiny Books in progress

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving day.

I'm still working on the tiny books.
They will be up for sale
at my shop
next Tuesday at noon CST.

The other one

I share this other desk with my boys
in the studio/homeschool.
Manolo made
the blackboard/bulletin board for us.
The desk, and white flower pots
are from IKEA.

On my desk today

Getting ready to work.
It was totally chaotic before I took this photo, for real ;)
I'm going to have to take a before pic one of these days
and share it here so you'll believe me.

Have a beautiful weekend.

Autumn light

I just can't get over how beautiful

the light is these days.

I wish autumn

could go on for ever.

All these photos were taken yesterday.
What's your favorite season?

The Monkey has a name!

Thank you so much
for all of the wonderful names you suggested,
Daniel and I had so much fun reading all of them.
Congratulations to Pina
from Another Beautiful Day blog
who suggested the winning name.
Kristin from Kristin La Flamme,
and Doug of Jonesapalooza
will also receive a little surprise in the mail
for suggesting very similar names.
Please email me with your address as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for playing with us!

Happy birthday Daniel!

We are celebrating
our son Daniel's 11th birthday today!

He's been asking me
to make him a sock monkey all year long,
and I finally made him one yesterday afternoon.
He needs a name, so Daniel would like to ask you
for suggestions.
He will pick one randomly tomorrow morning.
If you're name suggestion is picked
I'll send you a surprise goodie in the mail.
Let's play!

The Making of...

...the tiny books.
Production is full mode
at my desk right now.

I highly recommend this book
if you're into bookbinding.

Two more

Two more prints available in the shop.

There will be 30 new "Tiny Book of Birds"
available in the shop before the end of this week,
I'll let you know beforehand.
They'll make great stocking stuffers
this Christmas ;)

Underwater garden

Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper
5 x 7 inches
I needed to take a break from the birdies yesterday
...so I went underseas with my brushes :)

Collection

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Thank you for visiting!

Shop update

I just added six new prints

to my shop.

And my good friend Oliver
is selling this gorgeous
limited edition letterpress print
in his Etsy shop

Happy Thursday friends!

On hold

My journal pages for these next two weeks.
My good friend Gustavo Aimar
sent me a whole bunch of little papers
to use in my collages,
so this is a collaboration of sorts.

Gracias Gustavo!
I've got a big deadline on Friday so
my next birdie will be arriving till next week.
Thank you so much
for all of the sweet well wishes yesterday!
It was a joyous day :)

13 amazing years

It was thirteen years ago today
that I was blessed to marry my best friend.
I am the luckiest girl on earth :)

Bird No.32

Watercolor, collage & ink on paper.
10 x 14 inches

Weekend

We had some friends over on Saturday
for a fun "Make your own panini" lunch.
How was your weekend?
I'll be back later with the birdie of the day
...see you then.

Bird No.31

Er...birds No.31 in fact.
Watercolor, collage & ink on paper.
10 x 14 inches.

I'll be back Monday
with the next one.
Thank you so much for
always leaving such lovely comments,
I really enjoy and appreciate them a lot.

Hope you all have a beautiful weekend.

Bird No.30

Watercolor, collage & acrylic ink
on Twinrocker handmade paper
10 x 14 inches

Bird No. 29

Watercolor, collage & acrylic ink
on Twinrocker handmade paper
10 x 14 inches

Bird No.28

Pitangus sulphuratus
This is one of the new birdies I'm doing
to replace those that have been sold out
in my shop.
I will be making ten new birdies
(including this one).
Come back to see a new one every day
till I'm finished :)

Sunday afternoon

There's nothing better
than spending a Sunday afternoon
at home.