SWAP ME

Cards are inevitably the bits and pieces of new ideas kicking around my brain that are born as a result of the impending deadline of a holiday. Or sometimes they are just a picture of life at that moment.
This is Lydia's Mother's Day card.

SWAP ME is how AWESOME comes out when Lydia types with her Blackberry. It has now replaced the word itself when something is truly awesome.

I love that Oskar made her a "really hard maze, with lava balls in it" which is, come to think of it, an apt description of parenthood.

THANK YOU'S

I went up to New York for the Society of Illustrator's Book show on Friday. I was lucky to get one piece in, a spread from Stop Snoring Bernard! While I was there, I had some meetings with a few editors and art directors of children's books. All in all it was a good day and I even made it home despite the blizzard that happened in Philly. I have a lot to be thankful for and I started by making these Thank You cards that went in the mail today.